Private Sector Operational Strategy 2025‒2030

IFAD’s Private Sector Operational Strategy 2025‒2030 aims to heighten the Fund’s development impact by supporting inclusive and sustainable private sector development and investment in rural areas and food systems. The strategy has two interrelated objectives:

• Enabling private sector development in rural areas and food systems to deliver jobs and access to markets, finance, technology and services to small-scale farmers and poor rural people.
• Catalysing private sector finance for investment in inclusive, sustainable and resilient rural and food system transformation.

These objectives are underpinned by four action areas:

• Supporting the ecosystem for inclusive local private sector development in rural areas and food systems, with a focus on MSMEs and young and women entrepreneurs.
• Promoting partnerships with and between private sector entities to facilitate inclusive access to markets, jobs, technology, finance and services by its target group.
• Deploying different financial instruments to incentivize private sector development.
• Attracting mission-aligned private investors to impact areas critical to its mandate and target group.

Across all four areas, IFAD will gradually grow its capabilities and adapt processes to progressively match ambition, work through partnerships and foster better coherence and integration of sovereign and non-sovereign operations in country programmes.