• Innovative approaches to targeting in demand-driven projects
  IFAD projects increasingly seek – as do those of other development agencies – to involve beneficiaries in choices regarding project activities and resource allocation, using demand-driven approaches and diverse types of development funds. The study described in this report was undertaken as part of the pilot phase of IFAD’s Initiative for Mainstreaming Innovation (IMI). It aimed to analyze and draw lessons from approaches used in selected demand-driven projects to maximize benefits to the most vulnerable groups and women, while mitigating risks of excessive benefit capture by the less-poor. The goal was to learn from these projects in order to improve the design and implementation of future IFAD investments.
• Community development funds: Emerging lessons for project design
  Community-driven development (CDD) is a leitmotif of current development practice. Community development and similar funds (CDFs) have become a common administrative mechanism for implementing CDD. This review examines both the model and emerging experience in IFAD-financed projects. The goal is to extract preliminary lessons for improving project design and impact, and to contribute to policy discussion. As a largely IFAD-specific review of an enormous topic, this review should be seen as an interim stocktaking exercise or work in progress rather than the final word on the subject. The intention is that the issues flagged here be kept in mind during IFAD project design and development, technical review and evaluation, and developed further on the basis of a larger number of projects.

India

• Targeting in Shivrinarayan Natural Village: a case study of innovative targeting under the Chattisgarh Tribal Development Programme
• Innovative approaches to poverty targeting, participatory processes and best practices: A study of the
  Chattisgarh Tribal Development Project
• Targeting the poorest and women - A case study on the Chattisgarh Tribal Development Programme”

Malawi

• Targeting in an irrigation project in Malawi
  This paper illustrates the practical application of the IFAD targeting mechanisms for poverty reduction in the context of the Irrigation, Rural Livelihoods and Agricultural Development Project (IRLADP), in Malawi. In particular, it shows how the project’s targeting strategy was redesigned to ensure the inclusion of the poor and vulnerable by providing opportunities for poorer households and women to participate in project activities, and also to be represented on key project-related decision-making bodies.

Peru

• Poverty and livelihoods analysis in Peru
  This paper describes the process of conducting poverty and livelihoods analysis in three regions (Lambayeque, Cajamarca, La Libertad) of Northern Peru, during the appraisal mission for the IFAD project “Strengthening assets, markets and rural development policies in the Northern Highlands”. the specific aim of the study were to improve the characterization of the target group and the definition of the project’s targeting strategy in line with the Targeting Policy and  to field test the “Guidelines on Poverty and Livelihoods Analysis for Targeting in IFAD-Supported Projects”.