Many countries in the Afro-Asian region have made significant progress in achieving their economic development goals during the last 2-3 decades. Some of them achieved two digits economic growth and significantly reduced rural poverty. On the other side, there are still many developing countries attempting serious efforts to attain higher level of economic growth to reduce rural poverty, remove hunger and mal-nutrition. These countries are in need of technical/financial assistance to further strengthen their development programmes to achieve a higher growth.

AARDO supplements the efforts of the member countries and provides ample opportunities to the officials/experts of its member countries to jointly discuss their problems, learn from the experiences of other countries who have already made tremendous progress in the field of agriculture and rural development, to exchange views, ideas, information and develop understanding amongst themselves for collectively exploring opportunities for coordination of efforts towards promotion of rural and agriculture development. Thus, AARDO acts as a catalyst in the Afro-Asian region for developing participative cooperation among its member countries to promote socio-economic development in rural areas. With these objectives in view, AARDO formulates and implements its technical programmes on triennial basis. Here follows the technical programmes for triennium 2009-2011.