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IFAD's Newsletter on South-South and Triangular Cooperation - Issue 1
February 2023
This newsletter shares stories and solutions for agriculture and rural transformation, and builds a picture of how SSTC contributes to improving the livelihoods of rural people.
Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022
January 2023
This publication presents: data on the cost of healthy diets in Latin America and the Caribbean; an agrifood system approach to repurpose and implement policies; and examples of effective policies.
China-IFAD South-South and Triangular Cooperation Facility: Annual Progress Report 2021
January 2023
This fourth progress report highlights the achievements of the Facility in 2021.
PIRAS Country Update: Kiribati
December 2022
PIRAS supports COVID-19 food system and economic recovery. In Kiribati, PIRAS tackles water scarcity and food security for vulnerable rural farming households.
Global Biodiversity Framework: A New Deal for Nature
December 2022
IFAD was present at the COP15 conference in Montreal, where it supported the summit’s promising outcome: a once-in-a-decade agreement to protect wetlands, rainforests, grasslands, and coral reefs by 2030.
Stock-taking exercise on Livestock Farmer Field Schools: East and Southern Africa
December 2022
This report reviews and documents lessons learned from livestock farmer field schools in four IFAD-funded projects that applied this approach in Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania (Zanzibar).
Effectiveness of Life Skills Training Interventions for the Empowerment of Women in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review
December 2022
This systematic review evaluates the effectiveness of life skills training programmes for empowering women in developing countries.
Interventions for Women's Empowerment in Developing Countries: An Evidence Gap Map
December 2022
This evidence gap map (EGM) visualises the areas in which most research on effective interventions for women’s empowerment is concentrated—and where there are gaps.
Effectiveness of life skills interventions for the empowerment of women in developing countries: Protocol for a Systematic Review
December 2022
This protocol for the systematic review details the methods used in the meta-analysis.
Evidence Review on the Effectiveness of Interventions Promoting Women's Empowerment in Developing Countries: Approach Paper
December 2022
This approach paper describes the strategy for data collection and analysis and the contours of the evidence gap map and systematic review.
PIRAS Country Update: Vanuatu
December 2022
PIRAS supports COVID-19 food system and economic recovery. In Vanuatu, it works to increase food production, improve nutrition and strengthen market links for rural communities.
PIRAS Country Update: Tonga
December 2022
PIRAS supports COVID-19 food system and economic recovery. In Tonga, it tackles the urgent agricultural needs emerging from the January 2022 Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption and tsunami.
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PIRAS Country Update: Solomon Islands
December 2022
PIRAS supports COVID-19 food system and economic recovery. In Solomon Islands, it works across 30 communities to support sustainable food production, to improve nutrition, and to strengthen inclusive local value chains.
PIRAS Country Update: Fiji
December 2022
PIRAS supports COVID-19 food system and economic recovery. In Fiji, it works in 70 villages and supports food production, post-harvest handling and market access.
Climate-smart agriculture: A synthesis of experiences and lessons from the NEN region
December 2022
This publication describes Climate-smart agriculture case studies in Egypt, Georgia, Moldova and Somalia.
Improve partnerships between Post and Money Transfer Operators for better remittance services to rural Africa
December 2022
This flyer was produced in the framework of the African Postal Financial Services Initiative (APFSI) to highlight the improved partnerships between the Post and Money Transfer Operators to provide remittance services in rural areas.
IFAD Briefing Note: COP27 - A High-level Analysis of Proceedings
December 2022
After COP27, this paper discusses the proceedings most pertinent to IFAD’s mission of investing in rural people and helping them build resilience to climate change.
Introduction to community pasture management plans in Kyrgyzstan
December 2022
This publication synthesizes IFAD’s experience on introducing Community Pasture Management Plans in Kyrgyzstan and how the historical and legal context led to the creation of a modernized and sustainable pasture management system.
Lessons Learned from Supporting Pluralistic Extension Services in Asia and Africa
November 2022
This report outlines ten lessons from 23 IFAD-supported projects that worked with PESPs to support efficient, inclusive and sustainable pluralistic extension systems.
Research Series 87: Incorporating the Impact of Climate and Weather Variables in Impact Assessments
November 2022
This paper outlines a methodological strategy for incorporating weather and long-term climate conditions into impact assessments, based on an IFAD-supported project that invested in grain storage in Chad.
On Air Dialogues – Listening to Rural Africans
November 2022
Farm Radio International’s On Air Dialogues gathered the perspectives and experiences of rural people in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso as they contend with climate change. People responded to poll questions and left voice messages sharing their opinions on and experiences of climate change and what global leaders should do to help them adapt and prosper.
ASAP Technical Series: Gender and Climate Change
November 2022
This paper defines gender sensitive as recognizing different roles of women, men, boys and girls, inequalities and gender power dynamics and trying to mitigate negative impacts in programme/action design.
The Rome-Based Agencies Joint initiative for Home-Grown School Feeding
November 2022
FAO, IFAD and WFP are leveraging South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) to support national Home-Grown School Feeding Programmes (HGSF).
Agricultural innovations elevating Africa
November 2022
This publication highlights some of the innovations in rural development promoted in Kenya, Tanzania and other African countries by IFAD and AGRA.
The Republic of Korea–IFAD partnership
November 2022
The Republic of Korea is one of the founding members of IFAD and currently sits on the Fund’s Executive Board. The Republic of Korea and IFAD remain committed to eradicating poverty and hunger, and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
How to do Note: Designing for and monitoring resilience for vulnerable rural households
November 2022
The RDMT aims at providing a framework for building the resilience of rural households and a step-by-step guide to designing for and monitoring the performance of resilience-building interventions during project implementation.
IFAD Briefing Note - Climate and Conflict: What does the evidence show?
November 2022
Climate and conflict are linked, and this briefing note summarizes the evidence about the relationship between the two, what role climate finance can play in mitigating their risks, and where policy recommendations can be made to address the vulnerabilities created by both.
IFAD Briefing Note - Climate Finance: Scaling Investments in Climate Smart Agriculture
November 2022
This briefing note summarizes the fiscal and financial instruments the public sector can use to support climate-smart small-scale farming. The overall focus is on using limited public funds more efficiently and amplifying impacts.
Monetizing resilience benefits as a new financial tool to unlock private sector financing
November 2022
This paper focuses primarily on climate resilience in the agriculture sector. If proven successful, this can be replicated in other resilience sectors such as water, forests and urban development to address shocks beyond climate.
IFAD Briefing Note - Gender and Climate: Scaling Gender and Climate Investments
November 2022
IFAD's unique investing position serves as a starting point for a discussion on how it might scale up and support gender-based responses for adaptation and mitigation to climate change.
Climate Action Report 2021
November 2022
This fourth edition of IFAD’s Climate Action Report does not restrict itself to reviewing the progress and results of the past year, but also situates these results within the larger context of IFAD's 11th Replenishment.
Research Series 86: Incorporating the Impact of Climate and Weather Variables into Impact Assessments
November 2022
This paper applies a methodological framework for incorporating current period weather and long-term climate conditions into impact assessments.
RemitSCOPE: Uganda Country Diagnostic
November 2022
This diagnostic provides an assessment of Uganda’s remittance market, with special reference to factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic, based on a market-oriented approach.
RemitSCOPE: Senegal Country Diagnostic
November 2022
The Senegal diagnostic provides an evaluation of remittance market into Senegal, under a supply-based approach.
RemitSCOPE: Morocco Country Diagnostic
November 2022
This report provides an assessment of the remittances market in Morocco.
Biodiversity Core Indicator – Comprehensive Guidance
November 2022
To help tackle biodiversity loss and track biodiversity gains, IFAD has adopted a new biodiversity core (outcome) indicator, 3.2.4. ‘Biodiversity improvements at ecosystem-level’ as part of its Biodiversity Strategy 2022-2025.
Investment practices and preferences of the Malian diaspora in their country of origin
November 2022
This study provides food for thought for operators wishing to tailor their financial tools to the needs and expectations of the diaspora while stimulating the interest of public actors.
Paris Alignment - Greenhouse Gas Accounting Analysis for IFAD’s investment portfolio in the AFOLU sector
November 2022
This study is part of a broader Paris Alignment Roadmap, which will ensure that IFAD can play a key role in supporting countries in realising their climate action plans in the small-scale agriculture.
Diaspora investment in Malian small-to-medium enterprises: Proposed investment models adapted for the Malian diaspora
November 2022
IFAD research shows that Mali’s diaspora want to invest in businesses within the agricultural sector, and specifically in businesses owned by members of the diaspora and their relatives.
Sierra Leone: Partnership for rural transformation
October 2022
This brochure highlights the stories of some of the rural people supported by the Rural Poor Stimulus Facility (RPSF), which helped mitigate the negative impacts of COVID-19 on the livelihoods of small-scale farmers across the country.
Management of Livestock Using Rotational Grazing
October 2022
This publication provides a brief background on rangeland management in Tajikistan and offers key principles of rotational grazing practices that explain how and why such systems can achieve ecologically sustainable outcomes.
Handbook for Scaling Irrigation Systems
October 2022
Handbook for Scaling Irrigation Systems is a joint publication between IFAD and IFC on how to develop and scale innovative solutions to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and increase crop productivity.
Investing in rural people in the United Republic of Tanzania
October 2022
IFAD’s Executive Board approved its first loan to the United Republic of Tanzania in 1978 – the second loan ever approved by the board.
Investing in rural people in Sri Lanka
September 2022
Altogether, IFAD has implemented 19 projects in Sri Lanka, benefiting 654,832 households at a total cost of US$654.57 million (with IFAD providing US$340.49 million in financing).
RemitSCOPE: South Africa Country Diagnostic
September 2022
The South Africa country diagnostic has been prepared in accordance with the PRIME Africa goals, to provide more in-depth analysis and additional evidence for the areas of action identified in the country road map.
IFAD Strategy and Knowledge Department Learning Note #2
September 2022
This Learning Note showcases the methodology used for assessing the impacts of IFAD's investments on the livelihoods and lives of its project participants.
Filling in the blanks: How to address data gaps to develop better livestock insurance for smallholder farmers
September 2022
Gathering good data can reduce the cost of livestock insurance for smallholder farmers, making coverage affordable and building their resilience. The Insurance Toolkit new brief shares lessons learned in Georgia.
Investing in rural people in Haiti
September 2022
IFAD is a key partner in Haiti’s rural development. Its series of strategies, projects and programmes since 1978 testify to its long-standing commitment against rural poverty, with the active participation and inclusion of the Haitian rural population.
Enhancing identity verification for refugees in Uganda
August 2022
This note focuses on the challenge of verifying refugee identity in Uganda, outlining the current issues at stake and the rationale for solving this challenge and potential solutions for doing so.