The rise on the use of indexes is noticeable with the increasing ease in information technology and communication. Likewise, the indexes come like capsules to remedy or invigorate the need for synthesised accounting on the various directions, achievements and slippages, all are glued in the philosophy of stewarding universal goods and values. This need had been manifested in the strong demand of global donor communities for results-based management. The paper takes off from the desire to establish an index that provides knowledge on the different levels of development of many rural communities, which development agencies claimed they have reached out. An index that would ultimately rank the different countries that established CIRDAP for the purpose of regional cooperation in the sphere of rural development. The envisioned RSRDI is a self-conscious report card that aims to stand face to face with the existing indexes that measure competitiveness in terms of economic performance; performance in terms of how much is contributed to the basket of global donor funds, and other critical information that pertains to development. However, its rationale is simply to be accountable on every state policy that is implemented and presumed significant to the overall framework of a sustainable rural development. The RSRDI is a scoreboard that shows not only the progress on RD country performance but indicates the levels of development of different rural communities. Building the RSRDI is a new scope for cooperation among the CIRDAP member countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Tuzon, E. B. A. (2006). Building Sustainable Rural Development Index in Asia and the Pacific: Scoreboard on the Levels of Development of Rural Communities and Country Performance in Rural Development. Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development, 16(2), 133–146. https://doi.org/10.1177/1018529120060208
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