TOTAL DURATION: 34'03''

01.00.00.00 IFAD SPOT 30''

MONGOLIA (FILMED SEPTEMBER 2001)

IFAD PROJECT: Arhangai and Huvsgul Rural Poverty Alleviaiton Project

Objectives: To assist some 5,800 exceptionally poor households in the rural areas of Arkhangai and Huvsgul provinces through livestock re-distribution, vegetable producton and income-generating activities.

01.00.35.07 LS Gers/sky, various
01.00.57.18 Yangin Dulam milking her cows
01.01.26.00 Yangin comes inside her Ger carrying milk, various boiling milk and straining to prepare cheese
01.02.10.08 Yangin and sister come out of Ger, continue cheese-making
01.03.31.01 Son, Bold-Erdene rides past on horse and Yangin goes to get water
01.03.55.21 LS Gers at dawn

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VIETNAM (FILMED 1998)

IFAD RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

01.04.11.09 Woman walks past field of rice
Woman gets water from well
01.04.34.01 People working in rice fields
01.05.43.21 Women water crops
01.06.49.14 Desertification and Reforestation, various

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INDIA (FILMED 1998)
IFAD RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

01.07.13.00 Women sewing footballs
01.07.49.07 Women sew clothes
01.08.32.02 Women construct badminton racquets
01.08.54.09 Various making clay pots

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JORDAN (FILMED MAY 2001)

IFAD PROJECT : Agricultural Resource Management Project in the Governorates of Karak and Tafila

Objectives: To improve income levels of the families in areas where soil and water conservation works are undertaken; and, to arrest degradation, and optimize long-term productive use of land and water resources with the active participation and partnership of the beneficiaries.
01.10.03.10 Various Bedouin family with their animals, women milking sheep.
01.10.51.23 Bedouins inside tent, processing sheeps milk.
01.11.29.02 Various stages Janet Horani processing milk for Jameed (cheese)
01.12.21.12 Janet comes out of the house and turns the cheese
01.12.44.16 MS Tractor, ZO to WS land.
01.12.58.04 Exterior dairy processing training course for women.
01.13.27.02 Interior dairy processing training course for women.
01.13.57.20 Men building terraces. Various constructing terraces.

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BENIN (FILMED 2000)

IFAD PROJECT: Microfinance and Marketing Project

The main objectives will be to:
(i) facilitate access of rural poor households and women to financial services adapted to their specific needs; (ii) increase women's incomes and empowerment;
(iii) increase market opportunities and reduce constraints to market transactions; and (iv) promote the establishment of self-managed and self-financed local enterprises for the provision of financial and commercial services.

01.15.09.24 General shots rural people in Benin
01.17.11.21 Various Village School
01.18.17.07 Ext Rural Bank
01.18.38.15 Int Rural Bank, woman makes deposit
01.19.20.07 High Angle shots of busy market

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MOZAMBIQUE (FILMED 2001)

IFAD PROJECT: Nampula Artisanal Fisheries Project

The project aims to improve every aspect of fishing and fishing techniques. The isolated region has many unemployed men. Fishing could give them work. Better ways in marketing the fish is also a priority. Already its starting to show results. One of the projects first achievements is to keep the big industrial trawlers at bay. A new agreement with the Government means that ships must stay 3 nautical miles out to sea.

01.20.36.11 Various fishermen on beach in Nampula
01.21.23.22 Fishermen sell fish around the streets of Angoche
01.21.39.11 Women sing and dance
01.22.05.06 Fishermen in sea

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TANZANIA (FILMED 2000)

IFAD PROJECT: Water Supply and Health Project in the Marginal Areas

The project's major focus is on providing the rural population with better access to clean drinking water in order to reduce the incidence of waterborne diseases and the time spent in collecting water, which is estimated at 3.1 hours each day by the women.

01.22.46.11 Boy starting borehole pump engine, CUs engine running,
ext. pump house, IFAD sticker, various water queue
01.23.40.00 Various irrigation, women pouring water on plants.
01.23.59.10 Monica carries embers, entering house, preparing and cooking food
with baby on her shoulders
01.24.39.06 Cattle drinking at water point,
01.25.44.02 Monica with other women walking in the bush, carrying jerrycans and babies
01.26.18.17 Monica and other women arrive at lake, two women rest while Monica washes her clothes and her baby.

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GUATEMALA (FILMED JANUARY 2001)

IFAD PROJECT: Cuchumatanes Highlands Rural Development Project

The Cuchumatanes Highlands is an isolated mountainous area located in the northwestern part of Guatemala. The population here is of Mayan ancestry and more than half live in extreme poverty. Most of the population are small farmers with less than 3.5 ha in land holdings.

01.27.59.02 WS landscape, pan across hills
Various family with water pots and women washing clothes
01.29.00.17 Families harvesting potatoes
01.30.22.07 Exterior house and potato store
01.30.43.16 Little boy looks at house and various family outside house
01.31.08.07 Interior house women making tortillas and cooking over open fire
01.31.59.00 Shepherds round up sheep
01.32.18.24 Sheep herded into shelter and various sheep inside

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ECUADOR (FILMED 2001)

IFAD RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT: Upper Basin of the Cañar River Rural Development Project

The village of Cachi lies on a geological fault line, and the earth's movements often cracked the underground pipes. Repairs were time-consuming and expensive.
The villagers put their heads together and with the help of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, they came up with an unusual idea.

01.32.46.22 Cachi, Ecuador, general views
01.32.58.09 Various villagers in Cachi
01.33.07.24 Various pipes
01.33.57.20 Luz Maria washes clothes
01.34.03.24 Exterior and interior water cistern