Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty



  • Armenia
    Refinancing Connects Banks to Rural Clients
    In Armenia, Macedonia and Moldova, low-cost refinancing capital makes rural investments attractive and profitable for local banks, and reduces rural poverty by stimulating economic growth.
    Arabic

    Connecting Mountain Villages to Natural Gas
    In Armenia, natural gas pipelines were constructed to provide cold mountain regions with a new energy source that replaces firewood, cow dung and liquid gas. It also costs less and saves the environment.

 

  • Azerbaijan
    Reviving Agriculture by Privatizing Farms
    In Azerbaijan, IFAD co-sponsored a project that successfully helped the government restore agricultural productivity by restructuring collective and state farms and transferring them
    to the local population.
    Arabic

 

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Starting Rural Businesses after the War
    In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a project co-sponsored by IFAD helped the war-ravaged country make the transition from immediate relief and rehabilitation to long-term sustainable development.
    Arabic

 

  • Egypt
    Increasing Exports through Contract Farming
    In Egypt, an IFAD-sponsored project helps farmers and their associations enter into contractual arrangements with private-sector companies, which enables them to increase their export of food crops.
    Arabic

    A Holistic Approach to Farming Research
    In Egypt, land productivity was improved by an IFAD project that created strong links between farmers, research and extension, and raised resource-use efficiency by integrating crops and livestock.
    Arabic

 

  • Gaza and the West Bank
    Women’s Savings and Credit Associations
    In Gaza and the West Bank, IFAD gave women a unique opportunity to start their own businesses by setting up a series of Savings and Credit Associations and providing business skills training.
    Arabic

 

  • Jordan
    Financing Microenterprises Led by Women
    In Jordan, the success of a project co-funded by IFAD largely rested on how quickly rural women were able to learn about borrowing money and setting up and running their own small enterprises.
    Arabic

 

  • Macedonia
    Refinancing Connects Banks to Rural Clients
    In Armenia, Macedonia and Moldova, low-cost refinancing capital makes rural investments attractive and profitable for local banks, and reduces rural poverty by stimulating economic growth.
    Arabic


    Supporting Private Agricultural Consulting
    In Macedonia, IFAD trained individuals to become agricultural advisors and assisted them in establishing private companies that today operate in the market for agricultural development
    services.

 

  • Moldova
    Refinancing Connects Banks to Rural Clients
    In Armenia, Macedonia and Moldova, low-cost refinancing capital makes rural investments attractive and profitable for local banks, and reduces rural poverty by stimulating economic growth.
    Arabic

 

 

  • Somalia
    New Techniques Help Locate Groundwater
    In Somalia, much-needed sources of underground water were identified by using advanced geophysical surveys in those same areas where previous trial-and-error drilling had delivered no results.
    Arabic

 

  • Sudan
    Harvesting Water to Increase Productivity
    In Sudan, an IFAD-supported project helped beneficiaries develop a technique to collect and use water efficiently. Two main results? Increased agricultural productivity and reduced impact on the environment.
    Arabic

 

  • Syria
    Sanduq: A Rural Microfinance Innovation
    In Syria, a sanduq – a local microfinance institution owned and managed by its members – provides much needed loans to poor rural people, with particular attention to women.
    Arabic

    Reclaiming Land through De-Rocking
    In Syria, large areas of degraded land have been turned into arable land thanks to several IFAD projects that managed to combine the sheer power of bulldozers with the long-term
    commitment of farmers.
    Arabic

 

 

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