The centre for women's research under its consultancy arrangement to the Royal Netherlands Embassy in the integration of women in development organized a workshop fo NGOs on the theme "Reaching the poor". The workshop was held on 18th April 1989 from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm at the agrarian research and training institute at Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 07. In the background where development often by passes poor women the workshop was to provide a forum for focusing on the need for in creased target group orientation in planning and implementing development programmes and for discussing appropriate strategies for reaching poor women