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CIRDAP, as a Centre of Excellence, has completed its 40 years in enabling rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region. The 40th Anniversary of CIRDAP is a very special celebration for all of us. Over the last 40 Years, the Centre have witnessed great achievements and conducted numerous researches, pilot projects and training programs. This publication captures the glimpses of important events and milestones. The genesis of growth of the Centre along with few chronological events are also incorporated in the publication.Download the publication: 40 Years of CIRDAP -
Ram, P.S, (eds.) Effendi, C., V. Rajendran, M.H. Kawsar. 2016. Arsenic In Drinking Water - A Case Study in Rural Bangladesh. Dhaka: Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific.Bangladesh is a tropical country. More than 75 per cent of the population is living in rural areas, who are vulnerable to the arsenic contamination. The alluvial aquifer that underlies the Ganges-Brahmaputra river basin contains arsenic in mineral form and has been widely tapped for obtaining drinking and irrigation water. For the past two decades, the water from over a million tube-wells has been slowly getting poisoned in majority of the villages. It is recorded that in 1970, a few villagers first noticed something was wrong when dark spots spread across their bodies. In 1993, they had finally learnt that they were drinking arsenic contaminated water when official tests showed 95 per cent of the village tube wells were contaminated. Considering the above, an attempt was made to study the Government and Community Initiatives for mitigating and preventing Arsenic problem in drinking water, in two sample blocks, namely, Brahmanapara and Lakshyam of Comilla District, Bangladesh.Download the Full book: Arsenic in Drinking Water - A Case Study in Rural Bangladesh -
Title: Asia Pacific Journal of Rural Development - June 2019 issueAsia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development (APJORD), a bi-annual academic journal, is a flagship publicationof CIRDAP. It is devoted to the issues and discussions on rural development, primarily in the Asia-Pacificregion.The journal provides a platform for the academicians, policymakers, NGOs, research scholars and otherstakeholders interested in Integrated Rural Development (IRD) to exchange and share ideas, opinions, fieldobservations and empirical findings on various facets of rural development.APJORD focuses on Integrated Rural Development keeping in view the six programme priorities of CIRDAP.These are: (a) sustainable development and efficient use of natural resources (e.g. land administration andmanagement, waste management and natural resource management); (b) livelihoods (e.g. povertyreduction, economic productivity through technological innovation, upgrading and diversification andrelated policies, skill development, entrepreneurship, access to financial services and sustainable tourism);(c) access to basic services (e.g. food and nutrition security, safe and affordable drinking water andsanitation, health and education, affordable reliable and modern renewable energy, access to information,decent housing, and rural transportation access); (d) climate change (e.g. strengthen resilience andadaptive capacity to climate change, and mitigation of adverse impact); (e) governance (e.g.strengthening local governance and CBO/CSOs, and gender inclusive governance) and (f) management ofrural areas in transition.With this interdisciplinary journal, CIRDAP fulfils its mandate as a service institution to its membercountries for promoting sustainable integrated rural development through dissemination of knowledge andpromotion of policy dialogue.Download this book: click here -
The Asian region experiences the most robust social and economic transformation in the con-text of globalization. Since the 1960s, Asia has created the miracle of economic development after the Second World War and embarked on the path of modernization, especially in Asian developing countries. Singapore and Republic of Korea have become developed countries, and Maldives, China, Sri Lanka, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkmenistan have achieved the middle-income status.China in its rapid devel-opment has especially not only changed the development landscape of Asia, but also, to-gether with other Asian countries such as In-dia, turned into the most important force that alters the world’s economic pattern.Download this book: click here -
A study in four South Asian Countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka with objective to increase the understanding of the underlying dynamics and the cross-cutting linkages of the Asian crisis focusing on their implications for South Asia. A major concern of the study was to examine the efficacy and adequacy of the policy and other adopted measures of the countries in response to the crisis and based on the lessons and findings of the study, identify appropriate concerns in future policy making. -
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Digital services can be defined as the set of services provided to citizens on any platform anytime or anywhere with the help of ICT. The widespread adoption and integration of ICTs have reduced information and transaction costs, improved service delivery, created new jobs, generated new revenue streams, and improved the conservation of resources. ICTs have also transformed the way businesses, people and governments work, interact, and communicate. ICT innovation is also revolutionizing the agriculture and food sectors. The RDR titled Digital Services for the Marginalized Rural People in Asia and the Pacific: Accessibility, Affordability and Implications figures out to what extent digital services can be used to serve those who are lagging. The purpose of this study is to figure out the accessibility and affordability of digital services available to them. Therefore, the question is what digital services are available for the entire population and to what extent they (marginalized people in rural areas) can access them.When considering the accessibility and affordability of digital services, we weigh their overall capacity to use ICT services based on what digital services are provided. The report identifies the economically vulnerable people living in rural areas who can benefit from digital services and assess the status of their ICT usage based on their affordability. The access of marginalized rural people to digital services is estimated based on the affordability and coverage of ICT services. Even though digital service and ICT access are two different terms, they will be interchangeably used to indicate digital services.Download this book: Click here -
Title: CIRDAP STRATEGIC PLAN 2018-2022 The Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) is a regional, intergovernmental and autonomous organization, established in July 1979 by the countries of the Asia and Pacific region at the initiative of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) with financial support from the CIRDAP Member Countries (CMCs) and several other UN bodies and a few donor countries.Download this Report: click here -
Effendi, C., V. Rajendran, M.H. Kawsar. 2016. Climate Change Vulnerability - Cases from CIRDAP Member Countries. Dhaka: Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific.This monograph focuses on the impact of climate change – one of the key concerns for sustainable rural development. Six insightful articles based on studies in different CIRDAP Member Countries including Bangladesh, Fiji, Iran, Nepal and Thailand. The studies examine the vulnerability of the Asia Pacific region, how climate change is affecting agriculture and livelihood of the people and different adaptation and mitigations initiatives taken to address the challenges posed by climate change. Although some of the articles were published earlier in journals or in other forms, the continued relevance of their underlying themes across all CMCs makes the articles worthy for further dissemination.Download the full book: Climate Change Vulnerability - Cases from CIRDAP Member Countries -
For establishing a comprehensive mechanism for knowledge generation, information dissemination and review of rural development (RD) and poverty alleviation (PA) processes at regional levels, CIRDAP is organizing regional policy dialogue on current issues relevant to its member countries. This publication is the report of the first policy dialogue held in October 2005 in Dhaka, where policymakers of different levels from the 14 member countries participated in and discussed emerging issues of RD and PA.For copies please write to: Information and Communication Division, CIRDAP. -
The goal of cutting poverty cannot be seen separately as it is rooted in a whole system of inequality and injustice integrated in the system that need to be improved in terms of governance, transparency and people’s participation in the whole process. Inequalities and disparities within countries resulted by various contributing factors like marginalisation and discrimination on the basis of class, gender, location and ethnicity must be addressed.
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This report is a consolidated one, based on the country studies entitled, Impact of Increase in Household income on Role and Status of Women within the Household, in CIRDAP’s Seven Member countries, namely, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam in collaboration with the Government of Japan and contains a review of policies, programmes pertaining to women empowerment as well as findings of the country studies in selected sites. It attempts to give a comparative picture of the women’s status in the seven countries, and comes up with certain policy prescriptions.
