DHAKA, Sep 3, 2023 (BSS) - The Government of Bangladesh, and the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) signed the Project Documents on "Integrating
Geospatial Information with Gender and Vital Statistics in BBS" at the
Economic Relations Division (ERD) today.

The signing ceremony was attended by Sharifa Khan, Secretary of the Economic
Relations Division (ERD), representing Bangladesh, and Kristine Blokhus,
Country Representative of UNFPA.

AKM Sohel UN Wing Chief moderated the ceremony, said a press release.

The ERD Secretary said that for ensuring quality data, credibility of data,
and authenticity of
data is very important specially when the target is three Zero.

"I hope the Geospatial data collected by the BBS with the help of UNFPA will
be useful for planning and development," she said.

The Integrating Geospatial Information with Gender and Vital Statistics in
BBS project, implemented by the Bureau of Statistics (BBS) aims to provide
financial and technical support to enhance the capacity of BBS on geospatial
information and strengthen the Bangladesh GIS platform (BGISP) with a total
estimated budget of Taka 1218,05 Lakh.

The project is funded by the Government of Bangladesh (Taka 127.09 lakh) and
the UNFPA (Taka 1090.96 lakh).

The duration of the project will be 4 years. The event was attended by senior
representatives from various ministries of the Government of Bangladesh, and
representatives from UNFPA.