Tackling rural poverty, together

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The 4th Business Meeting of the GDPRD took place during World Bank’s Rural Week 2005 in Washington, DC.
The GDPRD was invited by the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the WB to present the state-of-the-art in donor harmonisation & alignment in four pilot countries during a 90 minute session on Wednesday, March 30th (presentation is available on GDPRD website at www.rdxxl.org).

For this occasion, the Platform had invited country representatives from the four pilot countries of the GDPRD (Nicaragua, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Cambodia-not present). They attended the above mentioned session as well as the first part of the business meeting to discuss future GDPRD activities together with the Focal Points of the Platform member organisations. The three consultants for the country studies for Tanzania, Nicaragua and Cambodia were also present as well as representatives of about 20 donor organisations.