Past Winners of the ESCAP HRD Award

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A History of Excellence

Past Winners of the ESCAP HRD Award

Here are the winners of earlier rounds of the ESCAP HRD Award. Each year a different theme is chosen for the Award, which is also shown below.

Year	Theme	Winner
1990	HRD Aspects of the Environment	Asian NGO Coaltion for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC), Philippines
1992	HRD Aspects of Drug Abuse Demand Reduction	Dr. Wan Wenpeng, Yunnan Mental Hospital, Kunming, China
1994	HRD for Women in Extreme Poverty	Dhaka Ahsania Mission, Bangladesh
1995	HRD for Productive Employment of Youth	Social Work and Research Centre (Barefoot College), India
1996	People's Participation in Community Development	Sungi Development Foundation, Pakistan
1997	Empowering the Urban Poor	Human Development Centre, Thailand

The photo shows Mr Adrianus Mooy, Executive Secretary of ESCAP, the Ambassador of India to Thailand, HE Mr Ranjit Gupta, accepting the Award on behalf of the Barefoot College, and Mr Hajime Ogawa, Parliamentary Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, during the Award presentation ceremony held during the 52nd session of ESCAP on 22 April 1996.

1997 Award | 1996 Winner | 1996 Theme | 1995 Winner