REACHING THE MILLIONS: A FACE TO FACE WORKSHOP ON RURAL ADVISORY SERVICES
November 13, 2019036
CRISP
also participated in “Reaching the Millions: A face to face workshop on
Rural Advisory Services” held at Hanoi during 2-7 March 2015, Hanoi,
Vietnam.
The
workshop is hosted by the A&FS Network and organised by HELVETAS
Swiss Intercooperation in collaboration with the Global Forum for Rural
Advisory Services (GFRAS) the Asia-Pacific Islands Network for Rural
Advisory Services (APIRAS) and the Network for Agricultural Extension in
South Asia (AESA). All presentations, summaries of the sessions and
main workshop outputs are made available here
The
workshop came up with the “The Hanoi Statement on Rural Advisory
Service Systems” which was endorsed by 68 RAS experts and practitioners
that participated in this workshop”Current RAS systems are pluralistic: A
multitude of service providers interacts with agricultural producers,
and these service providers are funded from various sources. The purpose
of the Hanoi statement is to increase the capacity of future
pluralistic RAS systems to reach out to a large number of agricultural
producers (“Reaching the Millions”) in a poverty oriented, ecological,
and sustainable way. To this aim, the statement describes identified
core aspects of RAS systems and defines the factors that are supporting
them. Based on the core aspects, it provides recommendations on how
development cooperation can contribute to strengthen RAS systems”.
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