Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia

AsiaDHRRA traces its earliest roots to the 1974 Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia Workshop (DHRRAW) held in Thailand. It is a regional partnership of eleven (11) social development networks and organizations in eleven (11) Asian nations that envisions Asian rural communities that are just, free, prosperous, living in peace and working in solidarity towards self-reliance. To achieve this, the network’s mission is to be an effective

1. Promoter and catalyst of partnership relations, creating opportunities for genuine people-to-people dialogue and exchange;
2. Facilitator of human resource development processes in the rural areas; and
3. Mobilizer of expertise & opportunities for the strengthening of solidarity and kinship among Asian rural communities.