The Consortium for Unfavorable Rice Environments (CURE) participated in the seventh Annual Country Programme Review (ACPoR) held at Tagbilaran City, Bohol from January 20-23, 2015. This year’s theme is “ Leveraging and Scaling Up for Strategic Rural Transformation.” ACPoR is an annual activity of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for IFAD assisted projects which aims to review projects performance and experience, share good practices and identify major policy and operational constraints. This activity was attended by CURE Coordinator, Dr. Digna Manzanilla and CURE Assistant Scientist, Annette Tobias.