Afro-Asian Rural Development Organization
African-Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) formed in 1962, is an autonomous inter-governmental organization comprising 15 African members and 15 Asian members.[1] AARDO is devoted to develop understanding among members for better appreciation of each other's problems and to explore, collectively, opportunities for coordination of efforts for promoting welfare and eradication of thirst, hunger, illiteracy, disease and poverty amongst hundreds of millions of rural people. AARDO has its headquarters in New Delhi, India. India, one of the founding members of the AARDO is the largest contributor in terms of membership contribution.
Member states
- Burkina Faso
- Arab Republic of Egypt
- Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- Republic of Gambia
- Republic of Ghana
- Republic of Kenya
- Republic of Liberia
- Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Republic of Malawi
- Republic of Mauritius
- Kingdom of Morocco
- Federal Republic of Nigeria
- Republic of Sierra Leone
- Republic of the Sudan
- Republic of Zambia
- People's Republic of Bangladesh
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Republic of India
- Republic of Iraq
- Japan
- Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- Republic of Korea
- Republic of Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Sultanate of Oman
- Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Republic of the Philippines
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Republic of Yemen
References
External links
- Official Site of AARDO
- Golden Jubilee celebration of AARDO : India and AARDO in Search of New Horizons
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