Tackling rural poverty, together

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The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) has selected four pilot countries (Cambodia, Tanzania, Burkina Faso and Nicaragua) where experiences in donor co-operation in rural development will be documented and existing efforts to improve harmonisation & alignment in rural development will be further supported by the Platform. During an initial assessment study, a team of international experts has looked at the issues at hand from 3 angles:

1. the set-up of the donor community in the rural sector,
2. the state-of-the-art in harmonisation & alignment in rural development and
3. the issues and challenges in harmonisation & alignment in rural development.

The results of the study were presented and discussed end of March during Rural Week 2005 of the World Bank, Washington DC.