On 13 October 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture hosted a meeting to discuss scaling up the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project nationally, which was chaired by the Secretary of Agriculture Mr. Md. Nasiruzzaman. The meeting provided an overview of the ANGeL project, plans to conduct a baseline survey to measure progress national scale-up, and other matters related to expanding the program nationally.
During the meeting, it was agreed to select upazilas for ANGeL scale up using the latest 2016 poverty map data, as well as revisions required to the development project pro-forma before moving forward.