1) Which of the following are among the African members of African Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO)?
1) Republic of Kenya
2) Republic of Ghana
3) South Africa
4) Arab Republic of Egypt
5) Republic of Mauritius
a. 1, 2, 3, 5
b. 2, 3, 4
c. 1, 2, 4, 5
d. All of the above
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Explanation
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ANSWER: 1, 2, 4, 5
Explanation:
African members of African Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) - Burkina Faso
- Arab Republic of Egypt
- Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- Republic of Gambia
- Republic of Ghana
- Republic of Kenya
- Republic of Liberia
- Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Republic of Malawi
- Republic of Mauritius
- Kingdom of Morocco
- Federal Republic of Nigeria
- Republic of Sierra Leone
- Republic of the Sudan
- Republic of Zambia
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2) Which of the following are among the Asian members of African Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO)?
1) Nepal
2) India
3) Sri Lanka
4) People’s Republic of China
5) Mongolia
a. 1, 2, 3, 5
b. 2, 3, 4
c. 1, 2, 4, 5
d. All of the above
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ANSWER: 2, 3, 4
Explanation:
Asian members of African Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) - - People's Republic of Bangladesh
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Republic of India
- Republic of Iraq
- Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- Republic of Korea
- Republic of Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Sultanate of Oman
- Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
- State of Palestine
- Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Republic of the Philippines
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Republic of Yemen
- Associate Member - Korea Rural Community Corporation, R O Korea
Japan was one of the founding members. Some sources denote Japan as members (Wikipedia). Official AARDO site does not mention Japan as current member.
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3) African Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) headquarters are in
a. Dhaka
b. Tokyo
c. New Delhi
d. Beijing
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ANSWER: New Delhi
Explanation:
- 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.
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4) What is ‘AARDO’?
a. An international organisation
b. A NGO
c. A state of art defence system
d. New missile planned by India and Israel jointly
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ANSWER: An international organisation
Explanation:
- Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and the African Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) for capacity building programmes in the field of rural development has been approved the Union Cabinet.
- The MoU for the triennium 2015 - 2017 is being signed under which capacity building programmes for AARDO member countries will be organized every year during the triennium at various Institutions of Excellence in India such as National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRD & PR), institutions governed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and others.
- The AARDO is an inter-Governmental organization established in 1962 with the objective of promoting cooperation among the countries of the African - Asian Region in the direction of eradicating thirst, hunger, illiteracy, disease and poverty in the region.
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