IFAD Partnership Strategy

Partnerships are critical for enabling IFAD to get to grips with complex, rapidly changing issues relative to agricultural and rural development; and they are a necessity if it is to achieve greater outreach and expanded impact in terms of rural poverty reduction, with limited resources. So while this strategy is a direct response to a commitment made in the Report of the Consultation on the Eighth Replenishment of IFAD’s Resources, it also confirms IFAD’s recognition of the importance and value of partnerships as a means to achieving its development
objectives, and its concern to provide a strategic framework for its partnership efforts. In the context of this strategy, partnerships are defined as: Collaborative relationships between institutional actors that combine their complementary strengths and resources and work together in a transparent, equitable and mutually beneficial way to achieve a common goal or undertake specific tasks. Partners share the risks, responsibilities, resources and benefits of that collaboration and learn from it through regular monitoring and review.