UNB, Dhaka

The second ministerial meeting of CIRDAP Thursday adopted the Dhaka Declaration 2010 having agreed to ensure a pro-poor policy and resources to contribute towards achieving the goal of reducing hunger and poverty at least by half by 2015.
Newly elected CIRDAP chairman Syed Ashraful Islam, who is also the LGRD Minister, read out the second Dhaka declaration on rural development at a press briefing at a city hotel.
The three-day ministerial meeting of the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) concluded today adopting the declaration. [Read more]