Within the Swedish development cooperation with Bangladesh, an interesting bilateral partnership between two public agencies may take place. The partners are Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, BBS and Statistics Sweden, SCB who will strive for the overall objective Increased access to quality statistics in society by supporting the position of BBS as the central statistics institution. The project is a technical assistance program with the title  Institutional Cooperation between Statistics Sweden and Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Project , in the assessment called the Project.The Swedish Embassy in Dhaka wishes to support this Project because independent statistics is one of the key starting points for decision makers and actors in civil society to reduce poverty and increase opportunities for welfare in society. The support is also in line with existing strategies and policies - both global and national. The initiative will also contribute to the country's follow-up and reporting of relevant Development Goals / Agenda 2030The partners aim to develop a government exchange based on democratic principles, such as openness, accessibility and inclusiveness. Based on a pre-study performed during 2016, the planned activities will be carried out through learning sessions and other actions to achieve improved methods, procedures and processes as well as systems for collecting and analysis of statistics together with improvement of management. The gender perspective will be integrated in the Project with a focus on women to develop their skills in their areas. In activities that address the role of management, the Project will strive to bring women into senior positions.A red thread throughout the Project is to make statistics more transparent and accessible, to be used more. By focusing on statistics in the areas of gender, environment and climate change plus the labor market, the initiative will  be strengthening BBS, and provide other projects and actors with credible and impartial data. As the focus areas are in line with the Swedish Strategy for development coopeartion in Bangladesh, the link to other partners within these areas will be strong as well as the use of the results. The initiative also supports the follow-up and reporting on the relevant SDG:s.Statistics Sweden will have a full time Long-term Advisor at place and experts will come from Sweden to different sessions and missions. There will also be a Project Manager in Stockholm at SCB, and a full-time Project Manager from Bangladesh as well as a team working with the Project in Dhaka.The activities will take place from November 2018 to December 2021. The total sum for the intervention is planned to be 20 MSEK.An agreement will be signed between Statistics Sweden and The Embassy of Sweden in Dhaka, which cleary stresses that Statistics Sweden will take care of the budget and financial follow up. A contribution agreement between ERD, Economic Relations Division at Ministry of Finance in Ban