objectives

• To bring together European development agencies’ headquarters and field staff to share ideas, address common priorities and concerns, and promote networking.
• To provide an opportunity to get up to date with the latest issues in rural development.
• To contribute to broader efforts to strengthen the coordination of the development cooperation programmes of the EC and EU Member States in line with the Paris Principles, and
• To engage in high level policy advocacy to raise the profile of rural development issues, and to inform the wider policy debate on achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa.

partners: European Commission. Directorate General Development and Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States | Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations | Global Donor Platform for Rural Development | Department for International Development (DFID), UK | Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany | Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland | Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France | Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Development Cooperation, The Netherlands | Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Switzerland | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) | Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Germany | InWEnt Capacity - Building International, Germany

Conference Report

English (PDF, 1.5 MB)
French (PDF, 1.5 MB)

German version under preparation.

special supplement to Agriculture & Rural Development

Englisch (PDF, 330 kB)