At the core of IFAD’s Environment and Natural Resource Management Policy (ENRM) are 10 principles that guide IFAD’s portfolio. Best-practice statements (at left) provide specific guidance for project design.  Case studies of IFAD-supported loans and grants demonstrate how the principles interact in communities and across landscapes.  They show how IFAD works on economic, social and environmental challenges in integrated ways to enable poor rural people to escape from and remain out of poverty, building more-productive and resilient livelihoods and ecosystems.

Click below to learn about the 10 Guiding Principles.

The 10 core guiding principles