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Celebration of the 1st Rural Development Day on 6th July 2025
Celebration of World Rural Development day - CIRDAP
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – United Nations
In a gesture both symbolic and strategic, the General Assembly declared July 6 as World Rural Development Day...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – IFAD
Rural development is IFAD’s bread and butter. As the only UN agency exclusively dedicated to transforming agriculture...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – Iran, Tehran
TEHRAN – Declared by the UN General Assembly as World Rural Development Day, July 6 highlights the vital roles of...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – Pakistan, Islamabad
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Sunday his government is focusing on improving the lives of citizens in rural...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day - India
World Rural Development Day, observed annually on July 6, is a global celebration that highlights the pivotal role of rural areas in achieving sustainable...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day - UNHCR
Eighty percent of the world’s food is produced by family farms in rural areas. Many refugees originate from rural areas and hold valuable agricultural skills as...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – Pakistan, Islamabad
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif used World Rural Development Day on Sunday to promise fresh momentum for the villages that feed and employ most...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day - Pakistan
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif said the government continued to prioritize inclusive rural development as a key pillar of national progress...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – Myanmar
Union Minister for Cooperatives and Rural Development U Hla Moe yesterday urged all stakeholders to make every effort to implement sustainable rural...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – Nigeria, Abuja
First Lady Oluremi Tinubu has called for greater investment in the empowerment of rural communities...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – Fiji, Rewa
Fijian government has been officially commissioned as part of the country’s first celebration of World Rural Development Day
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – Fiji
Photo highlights from Fiji's nationwide celebrations.
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – Fiji
Fiji officially launched its national programme yesterday to commemorate the inaugural World Rural Development Day, emphasising the need to amplify...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – Pakistan, PTV News
In September last year, the United Nations general assembly had unanimously passed a resolution to declare July 6 as world...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day - India. DownToEarth
On this World Rural Development Day (observed on July 6), we must confront an uncomfortable truth: The model of demographic transition from country to city...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day - India
The first-ever United Nations (UN's) World Rural Development Day (WRDD) is observed across the globe on July 6 to raise awareness among everyone about their role and responsibility for collaborative actions and efforts on integrated rural dev...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – Sri Lanka, Colombo
President Anura Kumara Disanayake emphasized that it is the responsibility of the government to ensure that the advantages of economic growth benefits the rural communities...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day – India
In a symbolic development, the UN General Assembly has declared that from this year onwards, July 6 will be observed as World Rural Development Day, reaffirming its commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals.
Celebration of World Rural Development Day - India
World Rural Development Day 2025 was observed on July 6, emphasizing the urgent need to transform rural communities through sustainable development, digital access, gender equity, and climate resilience.
Celebration of World Rural Development Day - UNDP, Bangladesh
Celebration of World Rural Development Day - Bangladesh
The Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific, has celebrated its 46th Foundation Day in conjunction with World Rural Development Day at the CIRDAP in Dhaka recently.
Celebration of World Rural Development Day - Myanmar
The World Rural Development Day was marked for the first time in Myanmar at a ceremony held in Nay Pyi Taw on Sunday. Union Minister for Cooperatives and Rural Development U Hla Moe gave an opening speech, noting the importance...
Celebration of World Rural Development Day - Myanmar
Union Minister for Cooperatives and Rural Development U Hla Moe yesterday urged all stakeholders to make every effort to implement sustainable rural development activities in line with the theme of this year’s World Rural Development Day...
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.
