The Investment Component for Vulnerable Group Development (ICVGD) builds on Bangladesh’s long-standing Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) program, one of the largest safety nets targeting ultra-poor women. Implemented by the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MoWCA), ICVGD introduces a cash grant for investment, a stronger nutrition focus, and an improved development package to enhance women’s empowerment and resilience. This study evaluates the effectiveness of the ICVGD’s second phase (covering The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), in collaboration with the World Bank (WB) and the World Food Programme (WFP), initiated this comprehensive exercise to produce and disseminate the Bangladesh
Poverty Maps 2022. This initiative involved the rigorous review of data by the Poverty Mapping Working Group, and Technical and Steering Committees, both composed of professionals and subject matter experts. The BBS, WB and WFP jointly estimated poverty and necessary maps for key sub-national administrative units of Districts and Upazilas of Bangladesh. These estimates are derived using the Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2022 and the Population and Housing Census (PHC) 2022, alongside applying the latest guideline of the World Bank on Small Area Estimation (SEA) methodology (CensusEB).