CIRDAP – Enabling Rural Communities

Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP)

An Intergovernmental & Autonomous Organization; Established in 1979, Mandated for Promoting & Strengthening Integrated Rural Development Systems for 15 Asia-Pacific Countries; Namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Fiji, India, Indonesia, IR Iran, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand & Vietnam.

Helen Clark: The lessons we need to learn from COVID-19

“Despite years of warning of pandemic risk, many countries just weren’t adequately prepared for an event of this kind.”

“it seemed a lot of the world sat and waited, and didn’t really use that time to put in place the measures that might have contained the outbreak rather more. And the rest is history with the wide-ranging social and economic crises which have followed with the pandemic.”

Helen Clark, the Co-Chair of Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

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