After winning extreme poverty with assistance of the Social and Economic Transformation of the Ultra-poor (SETU) project, 45,000 households are now on way to attain sustainable development in greater Rangpur.
With multidimensional interventions of the seven-year term (2009-2016) project, average incomes of the beneficiary households in Rangpur, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari and Gaibandha districts have increased by eight times.
“The project has increased monthly average household incomes from Taka. 1,286 to Taka. 10,374, graduated 95 percent of beneficiaries from extreme poverty freeing 25 percent from poverty,” said former Team Leader of SETU project Abdul Matin Shardar.
This impressive rise in living standards of the extreme poor households became possible through diversifying income sources, promoting social inclusion and enhancing pro-poor governance, improving nutritional awareness and practices and developing as communities rather than individuals.
