The preparation of the Bangladesh Common Country Assessment (CCA) comes with on-going efforts to enhance collaboration and integration of UN system activities in the country. The CCA forms the basis of the Bangladesh United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) which is a strategic planning and collaborative programming framework that helps to identify priorities for United Nations action. Drawing upon the UN General Assembly Resolution on the Right to Development, the CCA has adopted a rights-based approach that serves as a barometer of progress towards the realisation of various rights. The four clusters which form the basis of the assessment are the rights of Survival, Livelihood, Protection and Participation. The clusters are characterised by elements of basic and structural determinants such as the resource base and the environment, as well as economic, political, and legal structures. The fulfilment of these rights and their underlying influence leads to the individual’s capacity—physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual and social—to exercise rights and assume responsibilities, which in turn leads to the realisation of the full human potential. The CCA finds that while the country has made progress towards achieving the rights to survival and livelihood, there are major lacunae in realising the rights to participation and protection. The inability of the state to play catch up in meeting the basic needs of the people is primarily the result of poverty, the impact of which is exaggerated by institutional weaknesses and failures in governance and macroeconomic management. The CCA houses a vast collection of information that spans the spheres of economic, social, political and cultural aspects of development, and is thus an indispensable reference guide for development practitioners, policy makers and researchers alike.
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