EU to finance over one-third of 2011 population census
Thursday, 25 November 2010
FE Report
The European Union (EU) will finance more than one-third of Bangladesh Population and Housing Census 2011 project.
In this regard, EU and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Wednesday in the city, said a press release.
Arthur Erken, UNFPA resident representative to Bangladesh and Milko Van Gool, head of cooperation of the delegation of the EU to Bangladesh signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organisations.
The objective of the project is to build 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 the country.
UNFPA and the Bangladesh government will implement the project at a cost of 28.60 million euro over a period of 48 months, the release added.
The EU will raise 10.4 million euro fund while the UNFPA will provide 0.147 million euro and Bangladesh will contribute 18.05 million euro.
The European Union (EU) will finance more than one-third of Bangladesh Population and Housing Census 2011 project.
In this regard, EU and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Wednesday in the city, said a press release.
Arthur Erken, UNFPA resident representative to Bangladesh and Milko Van Gool, head of cooperation of the delegation of the EU to Bangladesh signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organisations.
The objective of the project is to build 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 the country.
UNFPA and the Bangladesh government will implement the project at a cost of 28.60 million euro over a period of 48 months, the release added.
The EU will raise 10.4 million euro fund while the UNFPA will provide 0.147 million euro and Bangladesh will contribute 18.05 million euro.