Country Strategy Note (CSN) 2023-2024
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Sri Lanka Country Strategy Note 2023-2024
This Country Strategy Note defines IFAD’s strategic engagement in Sri Lanka for the period of 2023 to 2024 and has been prepared instead of a full COSOP due to the current fluid situation in the country and that there is currently no PBAS allocation for the coming period.
Reflecting the evolving short- and longer-term development challenges facing the rural poor, the strategic objectives are:
- Rural communities gain greater resilience to shocks and longer-term changes in the climate and economy as they recover from the current economic crisis.
- Smallholders benefit from sustainable productivity enhancement in more resilient livelihood systems which are effectively connected to markets.
Target groups include:
- smallholder producers and their organizations in domestic crop, livestock and other product value chains and plantation crops;
- landless labourers, particularly in the plantation sector;
- rural youth; and
- women, especially woman-headed households.
In the short term (1-6 months), the objective of this CSN is to complete the two active projects and consolidate its results. In the medium-term (6-24 months), the objective is to disseminate projects’ results, explore potential partnerships and write a COSOP for Sri Lanka for the new period. The possible inclusion of Sri Lanka in IFAD13 will allow new projects to be designed.