SETU, a national NGO was formed in 1983 aiming to enable the disadvantaged community for sustainable development. SETU's development effort concentrates on organizing and mobilizing the viable groups, enhancing their analytical capability, so that they can act and speak in local, national even global context.
SETU has been equipped in a way to take and/or undertake right based challenging initiatives. Its particular expertise developed on the issues of Globalization, Rights & Governance, Climate Justice, Advocacy, CSO accountability etc.
The major activities/programs/projects that SETU undertook in the past (and still these are continuing) were Poverty alleviation through Micro Credit & Micro enterprise, Livelihood Restoration Program (LRP), Mainstreaming the Disable People in Development Process, Non formal Primary Education (NFPE), Reaching Out of school Children (ROSC), Sanitation, Hygiene Education & Water Supply Project, Urban Governance & Infrastructure Improvement Projects (UGIIP), Hygiene, Sanitation and Water Supply (HYSHWA) Program.
SETU's Executive Director, M A Quader says about the background, activities and vision of the organization.