SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT:PO-NGO Partnership-Learn from partner experiences

On 19-23rd June,2006, at Taiping Resort,Taiping,Malaysia, fifty NGO leaders through out Asia country has attending five days 6th General Assembly. They are AsiaDHRRA members and partners organizations represent 10 country such as Philippine, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Combodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Korea, Japan and Taiwan.DHRRA Malaysia headed by Mr.Marimuthu Nadason hosted this five days event with the coordination AsiaDHRRA Secretariat based in Philippine. My self as DHRRA Malaysia Secretary General play a roles in coordinating and arrangement of this event since begining of June till end of this event.
The theme of this GA are " Roles of NGOs and POs in Sustainable Rural Development:Models of PO-NGO Partnership " Through this five days GA, participants has learned from the partnership experiences and understand current rural development situation in Asia. Participants also develop a shared framework of PO-NGO Partnership towards autonomous, strong, and effective POs. Participants has discuss and review the 5 year Strategic Goals of AsiaDHRRA.The new network leaders for next four years (2006-2010) was elected and headed by Mr.Marimuthu from DHRRA Malaysia as Chairperson for AsiaDHRRA.

Through this five days event, participants also has exposed to farmers village at Semanggol, Taiping and have a dialouge with local farmers and Agriculture Department Officer (Government Organisation). The participants has enjoy eating local foods and fruits and visiting padi field at the village.