Contacts

Helen Gillman
Knowledge Management Officer, East and Southern Africa Division

East and Southern Africa Division
IFAD
Via Paolo Di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Fax: +39 06 5043463
Email: [email protected]


Useful links

IFAD website

IFAD operations in Eastern and Southern Africa

Rural Finance Network

Rural Poverty Portal


About IFAD

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is a specialized agency of the United Nations, dedicated to eradicating poverty and hunger in developing countries. Its work in remote rural areas of the world helps countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

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Issue 19 – January 2012

Message from the Director
Managing for Impact is a specific development approach centred on people, empowerment, learning and responsiveness. Empowerment becomes real when people are asked to define their own goals, to develop their own decisions and to take action. Read more

General feature on Managing for Impact
In the last decade, a number of approaches have come to the fore to increase the impact that development projects have on rural areas and livelihoods, and to manage projects with a view to maximizing their impact.
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Swaziland: communities manage their project
The Lower Usuthu Basin is one of the poorest regions of Swaziland. The climate is semi-arid, droughts are frequent and crop yields are unreliable.
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Uganda: Facilitating the documentation process
As part of the knowledge management activities of IFAD’s East and Southern Africa Division, the ILEIA Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture, an environment and agriculture information organization which benefitted from an IFAD grant, facilitated a workshop on creating a successful project documentation process. Read more

South Sudan: interview with the new Country Programme Manager
Following the independence of the Republic of South Sudan, IFAD management decided to move the Southern Sudan Portfolio from the Near East North Africa and Europe Division to the East and Southern Africa Division and appointed Mr Eric Rwabidadi as new Country Programme Manager. Read more

News and eventsNews and events

Grants and loans approved by the December 2011 Executive Board

Loans and grants to be submitted to the April 2012 Executive Board

Upcoming and recent Events

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Appointments and staff movements

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