The government project undertaken to prepare the country s first-ever poverty registry has not been completed in more than seven years, with the data collected for it already rendered useless.
The National Household Database (NHD), initially known as the Bangladesh Poverty Database, is meant to help streamline the beneficiary selection process for social safety net programmes by gathering socioeconomic data of each household in the country.
Implemented in collaboration between the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and the Department of Disaster Management (DDM), the project beginning in 2013 was supposed to be completed by 2017.
But the Tk 328 crore project, financed by the government and the World Bank, saw its deadline pushed to June 2021 and cost balloon to Tk 727 crore.
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St. Vincent relief effort at full steam
At a warehouse near Port Purcell, volunteers and other relief workers have been sorting dried goods into boxes that will be loaded onto a barge and transported to St. Vincent …
On Tuesday afternoon, volunteers packed boxes with supplies and dried goods bound for St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where about 20 percent of the population is displaced due to the eruptions of the La Soufriere volcano. (Photo: JOEY WALDINGER)
At a warehouse near Port Purcell, volunteers and other relief workers have been sorting dried goods into boxes that will be loaded onto a barge and transported to St. Vincent and the Grenadines to aid residents rocked by a series of volcanic eruptions.
BVI assistance for SVG
A number of civic organisations in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) have come together under the banner of the BVI NGO St. Vincent Volcano Relief Consortium, to mount a coordinated effort to mobilise support for volcano-ravaged St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
According to a release from that unified body, the BVI community generously gave relief supplies to the people of St. Vincent with an estimated value of over US$25,000.
The shipment was scheduled to depart BVI on today, Friday, April 23rd, to arrive in SVG by Monday, April 26.
The community-wide collection initiative was coordinated by the Lions Club of Tortola on Tortola and the Valley Sound Lions Club on Virgin Gorda, in collaboration with partners, including the BVI Rotary Family, BVI Red Cross, the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Association (SVG Association), the Department of Disaster Management (DDM), the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), Tree of Hands and the Government of the V
English News and Press Release on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines about Contributions, Shelter and Non-Food Items and Volcano; published on 23 Apr 2021 by Govt. BVI
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