Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty
Case studies
- Armenia: North West Agricultural Services Project
- Bangladesh: Oxbow Lakes Small-Scale Fishermen’s Project
- Benin: Income-Generating Activities Project and the Microfinance and Marketing Project
- Chile: Agricultural Development Project for Peasant Communities and Smallholders of the Fourth Region Project
- China: IFAD’s assistance to the rural finance sector reform in China
- China: Improving credit delivery to rural poor people through reform of the rural finance sector
- India: Maharashtra Rural Credit Project
- Nepal: Fighting poverty and land degradation with leasehold agreements
- Nepal: Providing the poor with secure access to land in the hills of Nepal
- Peru: Empowering the Poor by Shifting from a Supply to a Demand-Driven Approach
- Sudan: Empowering the rural poor under volatile policy environments in the Near East and North Africa Region
Summary | Full document
- Sustainable Livelihoods Approach
- SLA fact sheet - Example of an SLA analysis in Bangladesh
- IFAD and India's state government of Meghalaya experience using SLA
- SLA fact sheet The Sudan - Livelihoods assessment in the Gash Delta – results and implications for project design
- SLA fact sheet - Example of an SLA analysis in Yemen
- Vietnam: Using community-driven approaches to reduce rural poverty
Evaluations and lessons learnt
- Appropriate Institutional Arrangements for Project Implementation
- Appropriate Institutional Arrangements for Project Implemenation in SADC Countries
- Benin: Projet de développement rural de l'Atacora
- Botswana: arable lands development project
- Burkina Faso: Special Programme for SWC/AGF in the Central Plateau
- Coexistence de plusieurs systèmes de crédit
- Congo - Projet de développement des cultures vivrières dans le district de Kindamba
- Determining Factors of Project Implementation Performance
- IFAD's Performance and Impact in Decentralizing Environments: Experiences from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda
- Ethiopia: special country programme
- Gambia: Jahaly and Pacharr smallholder development project
- Gambia: Small-Scale Water Control Project (SSWCP)
- Ghana: Smallholder rehabilitation and development programme
- Ghana: Upper East Region Land Conservation and Smallhoder Rehabilitation Project(LACOSREP)
- Ghana: Upper West Agricultural Development Project
- Guinee: Projet de développement rural de la région de Siguiri
- Guinee: Projet de réhabilitation agricole du Fouta Djallon
- IFAD Projects and Banks
- IFAD projects and savings and credit scheme networks
- IFAD’s Engagement with Cooperatives - A Study in Relation to the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives (by IOE)
- Incentives in Institutional Arrangements
- India: Tamil Nadu Women's Development Project
- Indonesia: Income Generating Project for Marginal Farmers and Landless
- Lecciones sobre el Marco Institucional
- Lesotho: Local Initiatives Support Project
- L'équilibre financier, condition de la pérennité des systèmes financiers
- Malawi: Smallholder Fertilizer Project
- Mali: Projet fonds de développement villageois de Ségou
- Mexico: Proyecto de Desarrollo Rural de Oaxaca
- Mozambique: Second Agricultural Rehabilitation Project
- Nepal: Second Small Farmer Development Project
- Panama: Proyecto de Desarrollo Rural para las Comunidades Guaymí
- Rural Development Projects and the Creation of Sustainable Financial Systems
- Rwanda: Gikongoro Agricultural Development Project
- Sustainability of Water User Associations
- Swaziland: Smallholders Credit & Marketing Project
- Thematic study on Water User Associations
- Transitory Difficulties with Decentralisation
- Uganda: Southwest Region Agricultural Rehabilitation Project
- Zambia: Smallholders Services Rehabilitation Project
Lessons learned
- Community Driven Development - Towards a renewed approach: Where do we stand? Regional Workshop, Ghana (2006)
- IFAD approach to Community Driven Development in West and Central Africa - Lessons of Experience, Romano Pantanali (2004)
English | French
Events
- Farmer’s Forum
- GTZ - IFAD Forum: Berlin, 20-21 May 2003: Forum on institutions, the key to development: Building alliances to empower the rural poor
- IFAD Initiative on Community-Driven Development
Toolkits, guides and manuals
- A Source Book - Institutional and Organizational Analysis for Pro-Poor Change: Meeting IFAD’s Millennium Challenge
- Guidance notes for institutional analysis in rural development programmes
- A holistic approach to assessing institutions
- A Source Book - Institutional and Organizational Analysis for Pro-Poor Change: Meeting IFAD’s Millennium Challenge, Crispino Lobo (2008)
- Community Driven Development – Decision tools (2006)
- Institutional Analysis – Flyers
- Overview of the process of institutional analysis
- What does institutional analysis address
- Understanding the poor and their livelihoods
- Analysing results
- Understanding action arena’s
- Understanding the institutional context
- Understanding power and processes
- Developing strategies for institutional change
- Using institutional analysis
- “Practitioner’s Guide for Institutional Analysis of Rural Development Programmes”, Alain Onibon and Norman Messer (2004)
- Sustainable Livelihoods Approach – Background documents
- Overview of sustainable livelihoods approach (powerpoint presentation)
Chinese | English | French - Background to sustainable livelihoods approach (powerpoint presentation)
English | French | Spanish - Sustainable livelihoods framework (powerpoint presentation)
Chinese | English | French | Spanish - Principles of the sustainable livelihoods approach (powerpoint presentation)
Chinese | English | French - Governance, institutional structures and sustainable livelihoods (powerpoint presentation)
Chinese | English | French | Spanish - Identifying policy issues (powerpoint presentation)
Chinese | English | French - Approaches and methods for institutional analysis (powerpoint presentation)
Chinese | English | French - Introduction to policies, institutions and processes (powerpoint presentation)
Chinese only - Sample case study for a practical exercise
Forest sector reform initiative - Chinese | English | French - Examples of practice
Chinese | English | French
Organic tea project (Chinese only)
They may have been farming for generations but now, for the first time, thousands of people on the Zanzibar islands (Tanzania) are learning how to farm.
Publications
- Good practices in building innovative rural institutions to increase food security
English - summary | English | French - Pro-poor institutional transformation for community-based development
Learning note - Rural Poverty Report (2001). Chapter 6: Institutions and the Rural Poor: Building Coalitions for Rural Poverty Reduction
Arabic | English | French | Spanish - Transforming rural institutions in order to reach the Millennium Development Goals (2003)
Arabic | English | French | Spanish
Reports and papers
- Agrarian Reform: Institutional Analysis and Policy Dialogue". Unpublished background Paper by Thapa, G., Rome (2002).
- An IFAD’s sustainable livelihoods framework, Julian Hamilton-Peach and Peter Townsley
- Empowerment: Actors, Institutions and Change, Khalid El Harizi (2006). Draft conference paper IFPRI/IFAD
- IFAD Governing Council: Round-Table Discussions – Strengthening rural institutions for the poor: Opportunities and Constraints (2006)
- GTZ – IFAD Forum: Institutions – The key to development. Building alliances to empower the poor. (2003)
- History and spread of the self-help affinity group movement in India: The role played by IFAD, by Aloysius P. Fernandez (2007)
- Institutions and rural services, by Ashok Seth
- Institutions and their Impact in Addressing Rural Poverty in Africa by Harris M Mule
- Pro-Poor Institutional Transformation: A framework of guiding principles for IFAD’s catalytic role, prepared by Thomas Elhaut, Rome, draft dated 10 June 2002
- Rural Financial Services: Why Institutional Analysis and Policy Dialogue Are Essential. Unpublished background paper by Hopkins, R., Rome (2002)
Speeches and statements
- Address of Lennart Båge, President of IFAD to the 37th World Farmers Congress of IFAP (2006)
- Policy Forum organized by IFPRI & ADB: Agricultural and Rural Development for Reducing Poverty and Hunger in Asia: In Pursuit of Inclusive and Sustainable Growth
Impact of institutional improvements on agricultural growth and poverty reduction
Presenter: Ganesh Thapa, Regional Economist, Asia and the Pacific Division, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Italy
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- Second European Forum on Sustainable Rural Development, Berlin 2007: Roles and limitations of producer associations by Edward Heinemann
- Statement by President Lennart Båge GTZ-IFAD Conference on Institutional Transformation: Transforming Institutions to enable poor rural people to overcome their poverty (2003)
- Statement by President Lennart Båge at the German Parliament: Institutions – The Key to Development: Building Alliances to Empower the Rural Poor (2003)