Botched execution leaves it unusable

 

The long expected poverty register
will fail in its mission, says IMED
The long awaited Tk 727 crore National Household Database that is expected to
be delivered later this year will not yield the desifed outcome for which the project
was implemented, said a recent report of the Implementation Monitoring and
Evaluation Division.
"Based on the current status, it can be said that the project's outpot is
unusable," said the IMED in a report.
The report, which was released last week, provided a damning picture of the
execution of the project by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and the
Department of Disaster Management (DDM)
Taken up in 2013 with support from the World Bank, the project was supposed
to create the country's maiden poverty registry by 2017 to better target the social
safety schemes and subsequently aid in accelerating poverty alleviation
Eight years on, the database is yet to be ready and, in that time, the project a
gone through four revisions that have raised its cost by 12.75 pencent and duration
by five years.