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Guidebook for mobilizing inclusive remittances for rural investment
February 2019
This Guidebook compiles the lessons learned from the implementation of the IFAD-funded Remittances and Diaspora Investment for Rural Development (2014-2018).
Nutrition-sensitive value chains: A guide for project design – Volume II
November 2018
This guide provides validated guidance for design of nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) projects for smallholder farmers. The guide comprises two volumes.
Nutrition-sensitive value chains: A guide for project design – Volume I
October 2018
The Nutrition-sensitive value chains: A guide for project design has been produced to fill a key knowledge gap in the emerging field of value chains for nutrition by providing guidance on how to design nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) projects, with a particular focus on smallholder producers.
How to do note: Engaging with pastoralists – a holistic development approach
June 2018
This How To Do Note first outlines the problems developers need to be aware of in pastoral development.
Toolkit: Engaging with pastoralists – a holistic development approach
June 2018
Pastoralism is a way of life based on territorial mobility, adopted in response to the challenges faced by human communities living in harsh or difficult environments.
Lessons learned: Engaging with pastoralists – a holistic development approach
June 2018
These lessons learned have been developed for planners and policymakers: (a) to help them avoid investment strategies and policies that impact negatively on pastoralists; and (b) to enable them to ensure that specific policies and plans for pastoral development are more closely tailored to the needs of pastoralists.
Lessons learned: Access to finance for renewable energy technologies
May 2018
Access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy is often associated with economic development and considered vital to alleviating extreme poverty (World Bank, 2018). Yet access to clean sources of energy is still a challenge for many smallholder farmers, their families and rural entrepreneurs.
How To Do Note: Access to finance for renewable energy technologies
May 2018
In the context of population growth, increasing inequality and natural resource depletion, universal access to energy – specifically to renewable energy (RE) – now has high importance on political agendas.