Where are AARDO headquarters?
Q. African Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) headquarters are in- Published on 07 Oct 16a. Dhaka
b. Tokyo
c. New Delhi
d. Beijing
ANSWER: New Delhi
- African Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) headquarters are in New Delhi.
- It was formed in 1962, is an autonomous inter-governmental organization.
- India is one of the Founder Members of the Organization and is the largest contributor in terms of membership contribution apart from contributing by way of providing 70 fully paid training scholarships for Human Resource Development Programme under the Indian Technical & Economic Cooperation Programme (ITEC) to the Organization.
- AARDO currently has 31 countries of the African - Asian Region under its fold.
- Since the year 2009, India is continuing to provide an Additional Contribution of US$ 600,000 to AARDO for each triennium 2009-2011 to expand its scale and scope of the Capacity Building Programmes of AARDO for the benefit of Member Countries.