new! IFAD's Private-Sector Development and Partnership Strategy

This is the first corporate-level evaluation of IFAD's engagement with the private sector. The evaluation concluded that there has been a major paradigm shift in the past 20 years or so in acknowledging the potential and contribution of the private sector in agriculture and rural development in recipient countries. The latter have realized that the for-profit private sector can be a critical ally in their own efforts to promote sustainable pro-poor development that can result in better incomes and livelihoods for the rural poor.
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Viet Nam: Rural Income Diversification Project in Tuyen Quang Province - Project performance assessment
This project represented a step forward in IFAD's country strategy, inasmuch as it moved away from focusing on subsistence-level agricultural production to engaging in market-oriented production and enterprise development. The project performance assessment indicates that this project made remarkable achievements in terms of upgrading government services for market-oriented agriculture and rural development, and advancing smallholder farmers' progress in integrating with markets and eventually moving out of poverty. What underlays this success, among other things, was the Government's firm commitment to reducing rural poverty and promoting the market-based economy.

• Ghana: A path out of poverty

• United Republic of Tanzania: Tanzania's rural poor: Making it to market

• Dominican Republic: South Western Region Small Farmers Project, Phase II
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• Brazil: System-building and leveraging state policies for the development of family agriculture

• Argentine: Decentralized project implementation coordinated at the central government level

• India: Empowering women through self-help groups