CIRDAP–PRDIS, India Collaborative Webinar
🌾 From Policies to People: What Really Makes Rural Development Work?
Rural development is not simply about economic growth, it is about building resilient communities, strengthening livelihoods, ensuring food and nutrition security, protecting ecosystems, and leaving no one behind.
- But what makes a rural development programme truly successful, inclusive, and sustainable?
Drawing on diverse field experiences, grassroots interventions, and rural development programmes, this webinar will explore the critical factors that turn development initiatives into lasting results with –
🎙️ ESTEEMED SPEAKER
Prof. S. V. Reddy
Agricultural Extension & Rural Development Specialist
President & Executive Director
Participatory Rural Development Initiatives Society (PRDIS), Hyderabad, India
Former Professor of Agricultural Extension
ANGRAU
Advisor, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries
Government of Uganda
Consultant: World Bank | FAO
📅 DATE & TIME
Tuesday, 17 September 2026
🕚 11:00 AM Bangladesh Time
10:30 AM India Time
💻 JOIN THE WEBINAR
Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 971 5572 7697
Passcode: 352764
Key Insights the Webinar Will Explore
🔹 Community Ownership & Participation – Putting rural communities at the heart of development
🔹 Strong Institutions & Local Leadership – Building institutions that can deliver and sustain results
🔹 Context-Specific Approaches – Adapting programmes to local needs, realities, and capacities
🔹 Inclusion of Vulnerable Communities – Ensuring marginalized groups benefit meaningfully from development
🔹 Good Governance & Accountability – Strengthening transparency, responsiveness, and trust
🔹 Sustainable Financial Inclusion – Expanding access to appropriate financial opportunities and services
🔹 Convergence & Strategic Partnerships – Bringing together government, civil society, communities, development partners, and other stakeholders
Why Join?
Gain practical perspectives on what works, what sustains, and what makes rural development programmes successful—and discover lessons that can inform the design and implementation of more inclusive, effective, and sustainable rural development initiatives.
Be Part of the Conversation!
Learn from experience. Discover what works. Strengthen rural development.
CIRDAP – Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific
in collaboration with Participatory Rural Development Initiatives Society (PRDIS), India