The Economic Empowerment of the Poorest (EEP)/shiree programme is a partnership between the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) to lift 1 million people out of extreme poverty by 2015.

"shiree" is the Bangla word for 'steps', and also stands as an acronym for our team's approach: Stimulating Household Improvements Resulting in Economic Empowerment.