Govt to pilot PEA system soon

The government is going to pilot "Poverty Environment Accounts (PEA)" system soon to get coherent quantification and practical link between the poverty and environment aimed at formulating policies and planning to address poverty-environment nexus.
Through developing the system, the government will get poverty-environment and GIS spatial data and statistics to further measure and analysis of the poverty-environment nexus, considering the broad recognition that the poverty and environment has strong links.
Implemented by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Poverty Environment Initiative (UNPEI) are providing technical and financial support to develop the system.
Poverty and environment has three key links---access to and distribution of natural resources; distribution of benefits derived from natural resources and condition of natural resources and their capacity to provide benefits to people.
To start the process, a three-day expert group training workshop, organised by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), on piloting the PEA system began on Monday at its (BBS) auditorium in the city.KM Mozammel Hoq, Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division (SID), Ministry of Planning was present at the inaugural session of the three-day training at the chief guest while Bikash Kishore Das, Additional Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division (SID), Ministry of Planning as special guest.    �UNB