IFAD in Rwanda

Since 1981, IFAD has financed 13 rural development projects in Rwanda for a total amount of US$140.6 million. IFAD grants have provided funds for two projects supporting post-conflict reconstruction efforts and the rehabilitation of refugees. The Belgian Survival Fund (BSF) financed a programme to re-establish public health services through a grant totaling US$3.8 million.
The first generation of IFAD-financed initiatives, designed during the 1980s and 1990s, consisted of integrated rural development projects. They had the objective of developing the agricultural sector in specific parts of the country by identifying and linking related elements.

Projects of the second generation, in place since the mid-1990s, include activities that have an impact beyond the local level. The projects focus on a single aspect of rural development, such as market access or agricultural production, and its relation to government policy-setting and to other national initiatives already in place, to favour their replication in the rural environment. They include the following on-going projects: the Smallholder Cash Crop Development Project (PDCRE), the Umutara Community Resource and Infrastructure Development Project (PDRCIU) and the Rural Small and Micro Enterprise Project (PPPMER II).

The Support Project for the Strategic Transformation of Agriculture (PAPSTA), which started in 2006, belongs to a third generation of IFAD-financed operations. It supports the Government of Rwanda’s implementation of its strategy to effect a gradual shift from subsistence agriculture, which currently prevails, to market-based agriculture. The project underpins the foundations of the recently formulated Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS). It will also help lay the groundwork for the agricultural sector programme to be launched in 2008.

IFAD's strategy in Rwanda
Through its country strategic opportunities programme (COSOP) 2008-2012, IFAD contributes to the national Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS), which tackles poverty by promoting equitable economic growth, modernizing agriculture , encouraging exports and promoting employment. The strategy gives particular emphasis to the agricultural sector, which provides for the needs of more than 80 per cent of the population.

FAD's overall objective for 2008-2012 is to enable poor rural people to participate in transforming the agricultural sector. To address low agricultural productivity, IFAD will support poor farmers in designing sustainable intensification practices, including irrigation, soil and water conservation, and economic support services. It will help create and strengthen organizations of small-scale producers and farmers and it will support communities in efforts to identify the most vulnerable groups and include them in social and economic development processes.

Source: IFAD

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Voir la version française Ongoing IFAD operations 5 Kirehe Community-based Watershed Management Project 4 Support Project for the Strategic Transformation of Agriculture 3 Rural Small and Microentreprise Project - phase II 2 Smallholder Cash and Export Crops Development Project 1 Umutara Community Resources and Infrastructure Development Twin Project View closed operations map... Statistics Projects: 13 Total cost: US$264.6 million IFAD loan: US$140.6 million Directly benefiting: 373,200 households   Contact information Mr Claus Reiner Country programme manager IFAD Via Paolo Di Dono, 44 00142 Rome, Italy Tel: +39 0654592797 Fax: +39 0654593797 c.reiner@ifad.org Hot links Country strategic opportunities programme (COSOP) 2008-2012 Country evaluation