World Rural Development Day
Objectives
To Establish the WRD Day
The establishment of the World Rural Development Day is to call for global attention and response to accelerate actions on rural development to meet the Sustainable development Goals in 2030.
To Inform & Remind
It is to inform and remind everyone of his/her role and responsibility for collaborative actions on integrated rural development as outlined in the SDGs.
To Celebrate & Appreciate
It is also a chance to celebrate and appreciate what the rural areas have provided us with their resource base and natural beauty that maintain ecosystem balance and support food production, socio-economic development, and livelihoods.
To Aware Everyone's Duty & Responsibility
It is the to celebrate together to ensure that no one will be left behind and thus rural development shall be everyone’s duty and responsibility.
Our Vision
To call for global attention and response and to accelerate action on integrated rural development to meet the Sustainable Development Goals in 2030.
Our Mision
Through this portal, we aim to:
- To establish the World Rural Development Day as a recognized international day on rural development at local, national, regional and global levels;
- To utilize the WRDD portal as an effective tool/platform to promote connectivity between CIRDAP and multi-stakeholder including research organizations, public and private organizations, cooperatives, farmer organizations, community organizations and networks for building awareness, knowledge learning and mobilizing collaborative actions for achieving the SDGs;
- To accelerate the collective actions on integrated rural development to meet the SDGs in 2030 on 6 July and throughout the year.
- To celebrate and showcase success stories of multi-level rural development initiatives, inspiring others and demonstrating the transformative impacts on sustainable development.
Why the Rural Development Day Matters?
Poverty alleviation, food security, nutrition, local governance, trade, livelihoods, access the basic needs, sustainable development and efficient use of natural resources in rural areas are main burning issues of Asia and the Pacific Region and of the world that require special and immediate attention for sustainable development.
It is estimated that about 87% of the world’s 500 million small farmers are in Asia and the Pacific region.
CIRDAP hopes that the Day will help inform the public on important role of rural areas and develop a worldwide movement to improve the quality of life of the far-reaching marginalized rural people who are living in our important areas in which improving of their well-beings will ensure our human survival.
Signature Campaign for the World Rural Development Day 2025
I pledge my support to the impactful celebrations of the World Rural Development Day, 2025
CIRDAP
History
As Bangladesh always prioritizes rural development as a key strategy for the overall development of the country where about 63 percent of the people live in rural areas, Bangladesh is considered a role model for many developing countries in the areas of attaining high economic growth, increasing literacy rate and alleviating poverty, etc. The Honorable Prime Minister of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, H.E. Ms. Sheikh Hasina and her Cabinet initiated and approved Bangladesh’s National Rural Development Policy (NRDP) in 2001 to develop human resources and bring about positive changes in the standard of living of the people who live in the rural areas of Bangladesh and are dependent on natural resources therein.
On 27 January 2010, she inaugurated the 2nd Ministerial meeting on Rural Development in Asia-Pacific in Dhaka, Bangladesh when she addressed that the Government of Bangladesh has undertaken different initiatives at national and international levels where poverty alleviation has been given the utmost priority in the national strategy called Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS). She also informed that the Government has implemented a massive rural development programme known as “Ekti Bari Ekti Khamar” or One House One Farm with the objectives of optimal and sustainable utilization of land and other resources as well as employment generation in rural areas.
The transition from a least developed country to a developing country and socio-economic development has been accelerated due to the able leadership of the daughter of the Bangabandhu. Bangladesh today is a role model of development in the world and therefore proposing the proposal on the establishment of the World Rural Development Day directly to the UNGA through Bangladesh’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, U.S.A. as recommended by the FAO.
