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IFAD Remittance Innovation Toolkit

June 2024

This toolkit provides guidance on improving access to secure and swift remittance services through enhanced identity verification and customer due diligence (CDD) practices.

Philippines: Country Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues

December 2023

Various sources estimate the population of indigenous peoples in the Philippines at 12-15% of the current national population of 108 million, or a total of about 16-17 million.

Indonesia: Country Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues

December 2023

Indonesia is comprised of 13.000 islands with a total area of 7 million km2. It has a total population of 273 million in more than 1.000 various ethnic and sub-ethnic groups with their own cultures and traditions.

Guidelines for Inclusive Agricultural Value Chains Development in Africa

December 2023

These guidelines assess previous Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) development efforts across Africa, propose policies and strategies for developing AVC pathways, and identify the policy and institutional factors needed for successful implementation.

Cambodia: Country Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues

December 2023

Indigenous Peoples of Cambodia represent 24 different groups, who reside mainly in the upland forests, plains, and mountains of the northern and north-eastern provinces.

Viet Nam: Country Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues

November 2023

This report aims to provide the most recent information on the issue of Ethnic Minorities in Viet Nam in terms of the general situation, poverty reduction, impact of COVID-19, Government policies and programs as well as such as NGOs, ODA and IFAD in Viet Nam.

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.

Myanmar: Country Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues

October 2022

Myanmar is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse countries in the Asian region, and ethnicity is a complex, contested, and politically sensitive issue in the country where ethnic groups have long believed that successive governments of Myanmar manipulate ethnic groups for political purposes.

Bangladesh: Country Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues

September 2022

There are different and conflicting opinions, and until very recently, acute shortage of reliable data and statistics, regarding the population size of the different Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh

Nepal: Country Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues

September 2022

Indigenous peoples of Nepal have been living in Nepal since time immemorial.

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.

Sustainable and resilient Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems for improved nutrition

May 2022

This toolbox provides guidelines on how to design and assess food biodiversity and dietary diversity projects with local communities, with the aim of improving the diets and nutrition of Indigenous Peoples.

Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Country Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues

March 2022

Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is one of the countries with the largest number of different ethnic groups in the world. The history of these ethnic groups extends beyond human memory.

India: Country Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues

March 2022

Internationally, the ‘Scheduled Tribes’ (STs) of India are generally referred to as ‘Indigenous Peoples (IPs)’. However, the Government of India emphatically rejects equating Scheduled Tribes (STs) with IPs even while abiding by the operational directives of bilateral and multilateral agencies with regard to IPs while operationalising projects with their financial aid.

How to do note: Integrating the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) in IFAD operations

March 2022

This note provides practical guidance on how to roll out the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) for IFAD-funded projects.

Understanding market demand: How to use focus group discussions in the development of inclusive insurance

February 2022

Understanding market demand is a critical step in the process of developing solutions to meet the risk management needs of rural poor people, particularly with regard to insurance.

Agricultural and climate risk insurance for smallholder value chains: Identifying common challenges and solutions

November 2021

This brief identifies and describes the principal challenges, and outlines possible solutions that development programmes can support.

How to do note: Seeking, free, prior and informed consent in IFAD investment projects

October 2021

This note offers practical guidance for IFAD staff, consultants and in-country partners for seeking FPIC in the design and implementation of IFAD-funded projects and programmes, in compliance with IFAD policies and procedures.

Making agricultural and climate risk insurance gender inclusive: How to improve access to insurance for rural women

October 2021

IFAD’s technical assistance programme INSURED (Insurance for rural resilience and economic development) has been building knowledge about how to strengthen women producers’ access to climate risk insurance. 

Knowledge Management Resource Centre

August 2021

A resource for IFAD staff and consultants, project staff and partners who want to learn more about KM.

IFAD communications toolkit

August 2021

Communications is key to help poor rural people build better lives. And this toolkit has been created to help us all get the job done.

Rapid prototyping for inclusive insurance: Testing customer challenges and gaining early insights on feasibility

June 2021

Prototyping aims to gather direct feedback on the solution and the wider insurance scheme, incorporate changes before pilot testing, and make any additional adjustments before the official roll-out.

Model terms of reference: Technical assistance in the development and implementation of agricultural insurance

June 2021

The ToRs include an outline of the required steps and processes, a timeline and a list of deliverables, together with information on the profile of the service provider or team of experts.

Model terms of reference for the selection of a service provider for: Agricultural and climate risk insurance feasibility studies

June 2021

These are model terms of reference (ToRs) for use by project designers and implementers in development organizations and governments. The objective of the ToRs is to support the contracting a specialized service provider to carry out one or more agricultural and climate risk insurance feasibility studies within the context of an IFAD-financed project or similar initiative.

Core Outcome Indicators measurement guidelines (COI) – online training

April 2021

This online training is a walk through the guidelines that lay out the mandatory methodology developed by IFAD for collecting timely and reliable data on CIs at the outcome-level at project baseline, midterm and completion stages.

How to do note: Access to land for rural youth employment and entrepreneurship

April 2021

This How-to-do Note on access to land for rural youth employment and entrepreneurship complements the Toolkit on land tenure in IFAD-financed operations that highlights the importance of strengthening tenure security for rural development.

How to do note: Crop selection for diet quality and resilience

March 2021

This How to Do Note is part of a series of five Notes that accompany the NUS Operational Framework.

How to do note: Market needs and emerging opportunities assessment in NUS value chains

March 2021

This How to Do Note is part of a series of five Notes that accompany the NUS Operational Framework.

How to do note: Promote neglected and underutilized species for domestic markets

March 2021

This How to Do Note is part of a series of five Notes that accompany the NUS Operational Framework.

How to do note: Interventions in support of NUS export markets

March 2021

This How to Do Note is part of a series of five Notes that accompany the NUS Operational Framework.

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