Uttara Development Program Society has gone through a year of expansion and consolidation since the Annual Report 2022-2023 was published..This organization has been operating various types of socio-economic development activities including microcredit programs successfully in 22 districts with 92 branch offices across the country for the last 37 years. Its sincere and relentless efforts to bring urban and rural poor especially women and children out of extreme poverty and change their lifestyle making them self-reliant has inspired me immensely.

UDPS has long experience and expertise in implementing the projects on “humanitarian assistance for flood affected people, empowerment of community people against drought, disaster management, formal and non-formal education, sanitation, hygiene and water supply, VGD, mother and child health care, ENRICH, Medicinal plant project, dairy value chain project, food security and livelihood, ICS, Solar Home System(SHS), impart of training and awareness raising with the financial support from donor, PKSF and Banks.

Finally, I would like to thank all members of General Body and Executive Committee of UDPS for their cooperation, sincere support and active participation in meetings contributing immensely for policy making and guidelines for good governance of UDPS.

I also thank the staff members for their hard work and sincere support in composing and publishing UDPS Annual Report 2022-2023. I hope this annual report will serve as a good source of information about UDPS for all types of stakeholders.