The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concentration of migrant workers. The Ministry of Labour and Employment plans to set up technical training facilities in each upazila. Awareness creation programmes have been strengthened among potential workers willing to have overseas employment. Employment generation needs to be taken into account while formulating both macroeconomic and sectoral policies and programmes. Employment considerations can be factored into the works of different ministries through (i) sector-based analytical work for employment generation, (ii) selectively moving ahead with operational details, and (iii) building the analytical capacity of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of Industries, Ministry of Agriculture and all other ministries for addressing issues on employment generation. Private sector employment will be promoted with supportive policies and programmes. Agriculture is still the main source of income of most of the people in Bangladesh. Accordingly, greater emphasis is needed on rural development, with a view to expanding market access, employment and productivity. Most of Bangladesh's poor and underemployed live in the rural areas or work in urban informal sectors. The formidable challenge facing the government is to increase opportunities for these people to engage in productive employment and enable them to earn a decent wage. 3.5 Right to Adequate Food: Although Bangladesh has entrenched the right to food in article 15 under the fundamental principles of state policy, it does not provide automatic justiciable remedies for enjoying the right to food. The right to land, one of the important components, especially for poor women and marginalized people, which contributes to ensure the ‘right to food’, is not directly guaranteed by the Constitution of Bangladesh. The relevant legislation which governs access to land is often contradictory, not duly updated and, not even, sometimes, practised whatsoever in the law. A wide range of national legislation is in place regarding food safety, although this is still fragmented and does not fully reflect international 62 standards (such as the food Robiul Hossain (60) lives in Patari village under Patari Union of Sapahar upazila in Naogaon district. code, or Codex Alimentarius). He has two sons who live separately. He has only decimal land now, and lost five decimal lands Implementation appears to be two in erosion of Punarvaba River. He works as a daily ineffective, partly as a result laborer for eight months every year and begs for four months to stay alive. He has not been included of the lack of coordination under government safety net programme. His between the different ministries grievance burst out against the local government representatives at the question of denial of rights, responsible. With respect to the “I asked all the members over the years to help me government support, for which I am eligible. legal framework governing water with They did not heed my appeal yet. But many well-off resources, this is also fragmented families got these support”. Robiul usually earns 6080 taka per day through cattle rearing. But this work and no one ministry appears to is not available round the year. That’s why he has to around five to ten kilometers for begging. Only have responsibility for governing walk obstacle is his age and he does not know how long and managing groundwater he will be able to fight to survive. Source: Barendra Development Organization (BDO) resources. This is an important & Barendrabhumi Samaj Unnayan Sangstha (BSDO), lacuna in the administrative and Sapahar Appraisal, 2012 legal framework, particularly given the problems that have arisen with respect to arsenic contamination of groundwater. Ensuring food security for all is one of the major challenges that Bangladesh faces today. Despite significant achievements in food grain production and food availability, food security at national, household and individual levels remains a matter of major concern for the Government. Adequate food availability, though admittedly necessary, is not a sufficient condition for ensuring national food security. Although the Government operates targeted programmes such as Vulnerable Group Development (VGD), Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF), Food -for-Work, Food/Cash-forEducation etc. for promoting food security of the poor and distressed households, many poor and nutritionally at-risk households remain outside the coverage of these programmes due to resource constraints. But the World Bank, in an assessment (Source: Social Safety Nets in Bangladesh: An Assessment , The World Bank, Bangladesh Development Series, Paper No. 9, Dhaka, January 2006) identified that at least onethird of the persons covered by the Government's safety net programmes were not poor, and only a fraction of assistance was diverted to those who really needed it. The study revealed significant leakages in the safety net programmes ranging from 10-50 per cent in cases of foodbased programmes such as VGD, Food-for-Work and 5 to 25 per cent in 63