Proshika is one of the largest national non-governmental development organisations in Bangladesh. Since its inception in 1967 it has been endeavouring to engender a participatory process of development and succeeded in pioneering an approach that puts human development at the centre of its vision. This vision is founded upon the understanding that poverty reduction and promotion of sustainable development is dependent upon the human and material capacity building of the poor and their socio-economic and cultural empowerment through a process of generating human, social, economic and cultural capital among them.