Child Equity Atlas - BIDS

Acknowledgements
The Equity Atlas is jointly produced by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), Statistics and Informatics
Division (SID), Ministry of Planning, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh; Bangladesh
Institute of Development Studies (BIDS); and UNICEF under a tripartite agreement. Many people
contributed to the report. Important contributions in conceptualization, analysis and preparation of the
report were received from the following officials of the three organizations:
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)
Md. Nojibur Rahman, Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division, Ministry of Planning; Riti Ibrahim,
Former Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division, Ministry of Planning; Golam Mostafa Kamal,
Director General, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS); Md. Shahjahan Ali Mollah, Former Director
General, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS); Altaf Hossain, Project Director, Population and Housing
Census 2011, BBS; Ashim Kumar Dey, Former Project Director, Population and Housing Census 2011,
BBS; Dipankar Roy, Project Director, MSCW, BBS; AKM Fazlul Haque, Project Director, SVRS, BBS; and Md.
Mizanur Rahman, Deputy Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division, Ministry of Planning.
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)
Zulfiqar Ali, Senior Research Fellow; Mustafa K. Mujeri, Director General; Iqbal Hossain, Research
Associate and Zahedul Islam Chowdhury, Research Fellow.
UNICEF Bangladesh
Isa Achoba, Chief, Social Policy, Monitoring and Evaluation; Dirk Westhof, Consultant; Shantanu Gupta,
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist; and Mohammed Shafiqul Islam, Social Policy Specialist.
Special thanks to Tanjinul Hoque Mollah of Jahangirnagar University for preparing the maps; Samiul
Ahsan, Amzad Hossen, Tareq Imam Zahid, Purobi Majumder and Faizul Islam of BIDS for providing
necessary research, computing and secretarial assistance.
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