The 4th General assembly of South Asian Alliance for Poverty Eradication, [SAAPE] was held at Kathmandu, Nepal from 17-22nd December. There were more than 40 prominent civil society actors representing political parties, trade unions, farmers, peasants, fisheries, women and many more attended the gathering.
The country up dates of each country was discussed in detail. And also seek the possible collective actions to the challenges of eradication of poverty, hunger, militarization and religious fundamentalism, social insecurity in the South Asian region which is largest poor population living in the globe.
According to the FAO, it is around 640 million people more than 60% of hungry people live in the region and is a big challenge to the Human kind in the globe. So, the SAAPE general body meeting was a decisive event to seek possible collaborative actions among the civil society across the region on Food sovereignty and Land grabbing issues, Gender, Militarization and Democratization of the region. 
Afganistan, Bangladesh, Bhuthan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lankan delegates reaffirmed their commitment to work together on above issues more than ever as the threats and challenges are also so severe on us.