DFID Bangladesh is investing significant resources in strategic and programme activities that link social protection, rural livelihoods and agricultural growth. Strategic Block 3 of the PRSP (Oct 2005) aims to provide effective safety nets and targeted programmes in this area. DFID is funding ODI to maximise the lesson learning from its own programmes and ensure that these lessons are harnessed to support policy-making and programming by the GoB and to enable improved lesson learning and knowledge sharing across DFID and country officers in various parts of the world. Collaboration between DFID Policy Division and ODI is already working towards this goal in five countries – Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Malawi and Zambia.