Tackling rural poverty, together

Minutes of third meeting, held December 7, 2004 - Bonn (BMZ)/Germany

Selection of the 4 GDPRD pilot countries Cambodia, Tanzania, Nicaragua and Burkina Faso

Table of contents:

1. Welcome and introductory remarks ...

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (Platform) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) have together just completed a 13-nation consultation of civil society organisations (CSOs), with the participation of governments and d ...

The purpose of this mission to Burkina Faso was to participate in a two day workshop (20 and 21 of March) on Harmonization of strategies, policies and programmes in the field of rural development and their formulation, implementation and financing.

"Working Group 1 Results on Advocacy” moderated by Catherine Hill with Michael Wales (FAO), Philip Mikos (EC-DG DEV), Jan Vlaar (Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Daniel Asplund (SIDA) and Willi Graf (SDC).

16:14 min.

"Presentation of the Cambodian Delegation" — by Sar Sovann (Land Management and Administration Project Director, Cambodia) and comments from Franz-Volker Müller (GTZ, Cambodia) and Steven Schonberger (World Bank) about the countr ...

 "Global SWAp Analysis - Presentation" by Dan Vadnjal (FAO), Alison Evans (ODI) and comments by Michael Wales (FAO).

26:10 min.

Audio file 8 of 22, mono

"Rural Focus of PRSPs - Discussion" with Cheickh Sourang (IFAD), Christian Henckes (World Bank), Christoph Kohlmeyer (BMZ), Guy Evers (FAO), Sunhilt Schumacher (OECD)...

15:46 min.

Audio file 11 of 22, mono

Editorial in the International Herald Tribune on April 25, 2007, which the Platform Co-Chairs responded to with a letter to the editor on May 1, 2007.

In July 2005, 22 heads of state gathered in Gleneagles, Scotland, and promised to double ai ...

"Presentations of the Burkina Faso Delegation" — by André Moïse Traoré-Nignan (Permanent Secretariat for the Coordination of Agricultural Sector Policies, Burkina Faso), Andrea Bahm (GTZ, Burkina Faso) about the cou ...