Because of the lack of a clear decentralization policy and rural development strategy urban and rural disparities have widened.

Since the Gambia was overwhelmingly agricultural and rural, the Government needed to develop a comprehensive rural development policy, in particular to improve the lives and rights of rural women.

Ms. Fye Hydara (Gambia) said it was true that the Government of the Gambia lacked an overall rural development policy.

During this period, the Vietnamese State places great premium on development of social welfare policy, especially for rural and remote areas.

10 Household food security implications for policy and action for rural poverty alleviation and nutrition , International Fund for Agricultural Development, 1996.

Lack of unified village development policy deters investments in farming, while possibilities for other kinds of employment in rural areas are minimal.

Under the Rules of Business this Ministry's tasks include integrated rural development programmes policy, guidance, follow up action, coordination, foreign assistance and evaluation.

Rural and agricultural development

Rural development and agriculture

Kerala Rural Development Agency

Thus, the agricultural institutions working in rural development, in an attempt to facilitate rural funding, has been creating alternative sources of funding such as Agricultural and Rural Development Fund (FFADR), Fisheries Development Fund (FFP), Small Industry Development Fund (FFPI), Fund for Agricultural Credit and Rural Development (CCADR), etc.

However, due to low level of development in rural areas, practical measures have been taken by relevant agencies to ensure the effectiveness of this policy.

Rural and women's entrepreneurship development.

CONDRAF Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Rural the National Council for Rural Development

A MINUGUA report was influential in Government civil society discussions aimed at producing a consensus based rural development policy, as called for in the peace accords.

ADRI Action for Integrated Rural Development

Currently there was a plethora of sectoral policies that were not well coordinated, and the Government was working on a comprehensive rural development policy to harmonize them.

The National Health Policy now places a renewed emphasis on rural areas.

Particularly, with a view to improving gender equality and position of women in rural areas, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) adopted a Gender Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2010 and Gender Plan of Action in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2005.

(c) Strengthening of domestic rural agricultural economies by actively contributing to integrated rural development planning.

Rural development increasing food output and incomes

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER), in its Agrarian Policy and Strategies, defined as its main objective to guarantee food security, sustainable development, reduction of unemployment and that of the levels of absolute poverty.

There were also calls for microfinance and rural development schemes to empower the poor, as well as for policy measures to improve access to education, water and health services.

Goal 1 Poverty Eradication Rural Development Engage and empower people living in poverty and rural areas.

The UNDP programme for rural and economic development involved investments of some 5 million in new projects for land reclamation and integrated rural development.

United Nations Public Private Alliance for Rural Development

United Nations Public Private Alliance for Rural Development

30 Daphne Topouzis, The implications of HIV AIDS for rural development policy and programming focus on sub Saharan Africa , study for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Development Programme, 1998.

Policy Development

To help rural women pursue individual and collective initiatives on a more ambitious scale, the government has revised its agricultural development policy in light of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.

Rural development should be an integral part of national and international development policies.

In 2004, the Brazilian Government, through the Ministry for Agrarian Development, formulated a public policy named Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (ATER), implemented through a program and the formulation and implementation of preferential conditions to facilitate the access of rural workingwomen to agricultural policies.

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is also initiating a participatory rural energy development programme, to identify and develop potential alternative energy resources in rural communities.

We call this our School Based Integrated Rural Development.

Programme Component E.2 Rural and Women's Entrepreneurship Development

Policy development session

28), which stated that a rural development policy with emphasis on women was not yet in place, asked why that was the case, bearing in mind that rural women were major contributors to the physical welfare of their families and to the economic life of the country.

The various themes of the framework included trade policy, competition policy, investment policy, tax policy, corporate governance, public governance, infrastructure development and human resources development.

The Bank s policy work has re affirmed the notion that rural producer organizations are fundamental building blocks of agricultural development. And it has helped governments to supervise and regulate cooperative financial institutions.

Women's limited land ownership and the absence of a public policy establishing mechanisms to boost their access to credit perpetuate inequalities in women's economic and social development, particularly in the rural areas.

A budget expenditure of Rs 34.15 billion was earmarked for rural development activities exclusively for irrigation (Rs 25.19 billion), land reclamation (Rs 1.77 billion) rural development (Rs 6.19 billion) and rural electrification (Rs 1 billion) during 2003 04.

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The priority tasks in rural development are complex and multifaceted.