Child Equity Atlas - BIDS

Summary and Conclusion
these areas to make Bangladesh aspirations to
achieve middle income country status by 2021
a reality with equity.
8.1.2 Finally, the CDI constructed in this study is
strongly related to social deprivation and usable
for multi-sector social targeting of the most
deprived upazilas as it represents the education,
housing, child protection and water and sanitation
sectors. The index captures social deprivation
and the results and maps can easily be used and
understood. The higher the CDI number the worse
the situation and, therefore, the more efforts to
be invested to achieve the MDGs, focusing on the
most deprived populations.
8.1.3 Importantly, the Atlas shows Bangladesh
as homogeneously progressing in some of its
development outcomes, but that it is also home to
challenging disparities than previously thought.
The analysis reveals that while good governance
is a critical element of development, remoteness
or isolation seen in urban wards are big drivers
of social stagnation. Thus, efforts to reach and
open up these areas should be increased, as
stated in the Sixth Five Year Plan 2011-2015 of
the Government of Bangladesh. This report has
revealed the pockets of progress and poverty (as
social deprivation), hoping that it leads to a wakeup
call for all stakeholders to take appropriate
action to address the inequalities by using
the Atlas to guide policies, programmes and
investment cases, towards a vision of a socially
inclusive country, where children are not
deprived due to where they are born or where
they live but enjoy socioeconomic rights with
equity in Bangladesh.
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