The European Union will finance more than one third of the costs of the Bangladesh Population and Housing Census 2011.
To this effect, an agreement was signed between the European Union and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday to fund a project titled “Support to the 2011 Bangladesh Population and Housing Census.”
The UNFPA and the Bangladesh government will implement the project at a cost of €28.60 million over a period of 48 months. The European Union will contribute €10.4 million while the UNFPA €0.147 million.
The remaining €18.05 million will be contributed by the Bangladesh government in the form of cash, said a EU press release.
Arthur Erken, UNFPA resident representative to Bangladesh, and Milko Van Gool, head of cooperation of the delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective sides at the European Union office in Dhaka.
The project’s objective is to help Bangladesh build the capacity to produce a continuous series of reliable and timely demographic, social and economic bench-mark data at national and sub-national levels, through population census and surveys.
It is expected that the processing, analysis and evaluation of population data will play an important role in formulating population and development policies and programmes in Bangladesh.
