Report Date: October 2007

This report is based on the Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2006, conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics in association with Mitra and Associates and funded by UNICEF Bangladesh. The survey provides valuable information on the situation of children and women in Bangladesh, and was based, in large part, on the needs to monitor progress towards goals and targets emanating from recent international agreements: the Millennium Declaration, adopted by all 191 United Nations Member States in September 2000, and the Plan of Action of A World Fit For Children, adopted by 189 Member States at the United Nations Special Session on Children in May 2002. Both of these commitments build upon promises made by the international community at the 1990 World Summit for Children (WSC).