Key areas of NGO Collaboration

Most collaboration between NGOs and IFAD has been at the project level, and collaboration covers the entire project cycle — formulation, design, implementation, evaluation and impact assessment. Field-level collaboration entails a tripartite partnership among IFAD, the NGO and the government concerned, and focuses on a number of key areas:

• increasing access of the poor to productive assets and services;
• empowering the poor through social mobilization and local institutional development;
• improving natural resource management; and
• creating and maintaining community-based social and economic infrastructures.