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$1.6m WB grant to strengthen BBS for quality data

BSS, Dhaka
The World Bank (WB) is providing approximately $1.6 million as grant in the first stage of its technical assistance project to strengthen Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) for quality data.
The need for statistical data has become even more important due to the pressure on poor households for the food and fuel price hike.
According to WB sources, the key areas selected in the first stage for the improvement of data quality are living standards monitoring survey, monitoring of trends in employment, improvement of national accounts and basic economic indicators, brlvironmental . statisticsanffganderstatistics.^*
A Technical Assistance Project on Capacity Building of the BBS has already started operation from April this year to meet the crucial need for current statistical data to monitor poverty levels and welfare of the households. It is being implemented by the WB-funded EMTAP project.
Underscoring the need for national statistics, the WB and the government of Bangladesh signed an agreement in May 2006 on a three-stage process supporting the development of national statistical system in Bangladesh.
The first stage is supporting the BBS effort to improve the data
quality in selected priority areas.
The increased capacity will enable BBS to generate estimates of employment, especially in the informal sector, and for women, as these are regarded as an important indicator of well-being and poverty.
The project will also improve the index of industrial production (IIP) and update the register of establishments and putting in place systems to ensure that the register is updated and reviewed on a regular basis.
TWo compendiums on environmental and gender statistics will also be completed.
. -Fucther, the implementation of the projecthas built-in features to imptdV&i.coordination, governance, accountability and transparency as well as efficiency, partnerships, monitoring and wider dissemination.
As per the 2006 agreement, the second stage will prepare a medium to long-term strategy for the development of statistics in the country based on Paris 21 guidelines and principles.
The third stage will implement a broad capacity building to strengthen the statistical system in a sustainable way over a four to five year period. The project is expected to make a significant contribution to meet the growing demand of quality data in the country.