CICTAB's activities relate to training personnel so as to assist them in
solving the problems relating to promoting and financing rural development
activities as also regarding the innovative and multi-disciplinary types of
Rural Development Projects and Programmes.
The countries in the region participating in CICTAB programmes have
more or less common features and comparable experience and problems
in their rural economy and in the various development programmes
undertaken by them. The importance of personnel development in
evolving a viable institutional framework for executing rural development
programmes, particularly for the benefit of the rural poor recognised by all
concerned.
Participants for CICTAB's training programmes and other allied activities
are senior personnel in related Departments of Government, central
banks, cooperative and rural development financing institutions, Banks
dealing with policies and programmes of their respective institutions and
trainers from national level or regional level training institutions concerned
with training of personnel from Rural Financing and Development
Organisations.