A meeting for stimulating and broadening collaboration among agencies, NGOs, academia, the media, and other key actors, to establish, “Unleashing rural development through employment and decent work” as a core element of national and international development strategies, and to move from words towards joint action. Specific areas for collaboration were identified, as well as a set of concrete, practical, international and country-level initiatives to be undertaken jointly by agencies and institutions present at this meeting, as well as any others that may want to join.