The regional commissions are also aware of the information needs for promoting successful rural development and an entrepreneurial base in rural communities.

The promotion of decentralized industrial development patterns can stem from rural urban migration, bring employment opportunities to rural areas, reduce regional income disparities, and thus fight poverty at its very source.

Rural and agricultural development

Rural development and agriculture

Kerala Rural Development Agency

Rural Development Foundation of Pakistan

Almost all the projects sponsored by international and regional agencies, such as UNICEF, UNDP and the African Development Bank, were targeted at rural areas.

There are located in metropolitan, regional and rural locations of Australia.

Rural development increasing food output and incomes

Viable and integrated development of rural areas

Programme for the Development of Rural Areas

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

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.

In addition to international symposiums, UN Habitat has also provided technical assistance to Governments and local authorities to promote rural urban linkages in regional development planning processes.

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

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

United Nations Public Private Alliance for Rural Development

United Nations Public Private Alliance for Rural Development

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.

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

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.

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,

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,

Regional cooperation for development

Regional cooperation for development

UNAMA regional offices are also acting as key information channels, and the Humanitarian Section at UNAMA headquarters is compiling the information requested by the Ministry of Reconstruction and Rural Development.

The United Nations regional commissions and offices, regional development banks and other regional organizations continue to contribute to regional implementation of sustainable development goals and targets.

All the sugar factories are located in rural India. This has led to the tremendous development of rural areas.

Rural Development (Laos) total village development managing and monitoring weaving materials bank and cattle bank.

Port Vila Women's Business Unit, Department of Cooperatives Rural Development.

The priority tasks in rural development are complex and multifaceted.

The regional office in Fukuoka, Japan, supported the Poverty Alleviation through Rural Urban Linkages initiative in Indonesia and the Rural Urban Partnership Programme in Nepal.

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.

The Southern African Development Community continued building a regional power grid and infrastructure for regional development corridors .

(d) Organizing regional forums for stakeholders to launch the knowledge management networks for rural communities

Investments and regional development strategy

Investment in agricultural and rural development is therefore vital to food security and sustainable economic development.

Promoting an integrated approach to rural development in developing countries for poverty eradication and sustainable development

Also recognizes that the eradication of rural poverty and hunger is crucial for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and that rural development should be an integral part of national and international development policies

Also recognizes that the eradication of rural poverty and hunger is crucial for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and that rural development should be an integral part of national and international development policies

Moreover, regional and sub regional development banks are particularly suited to provide regional public goods.

This low availability of energy, especially in rural communities, both curbs the development of rural activities and aggravates the desertification process.

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.

Agriculture was the backbone of Ethiopia's economy, and its development strategy centred on rural and agricultural development.