Savoirs

IFAD recently resumed operations in Cuba after more than 20 years. The official launch of the Cooperative Rural Development Project in the Oriental Region (PRODECOR) took place on 30 October 2014.
Given the challenges the agricultural sector faces, IFAD is in a position to serve as one of the country’s strategic partners, contributing to the ongoing modernization process.
Cooperatives in Cuba are key actors in ensuring food security, as they represent 80 per cent of the country’s agricultural production. The Government of Cuba has expressed interest in re-establishing the partnership with IFAD with a view to modernizing agriculture.
This will be achieved mainly through developing non-state smallholder farmer business cooperatives. In this respect, IFAD is well placed to provide technical assistance through its projects to increase the physical, human, social and environmental assets of cooperatives.

Plus de 90% de la population est généralement desservie par la téléphonie mobile, y compris dans les pays en développement, c’est pourquoi passer directement aux services bancaires mobiles pourrait permettre de relever la plupart des défis auxquels sont confrontés les destinataires des envois de fonds vivant en milieu rural. 

When we look at the world today, we see impressive gains as well as daunting challenges. The Millennium Development Goal target of halving extreme poverty rates was met at the global level five years ahead of the 2015 deadline. There are now more than 100 middle-income countries, as diverse as Brazil, Lesotho and Vanuatu. It is estimated that developing countries’ share of the global middle-class population will rise from 55 per cent today to 78 per cent by 2025. 

However, amid rising affluence in some countries and regions, there is also growing inequality. In 2015, there will still be 970 million people living in poverty – the vast majority of them in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. And there remain 842 million chronically undernourished people in the world. Volatile commodity prices bring hunger to the poorest, and instability to markets and societies. Climate change and environmental degradation throw long shadows over all of humanity’s gains. Against this background, we must confront the question of how humankind is going to continue to feed and sustain itself in the future.

This new IFAD strategy responds to these global developments and calls for IFAD to be more systematic and proactive in engaging with the private sector.

The new strategy specifies how IFAD intends to deepen its engagement with the private sector (be it small, medium, or large; domestic, regional, or international companies) with the aim of creating markets for its target groups; improving their access to inputs, services, knowledge and technology; and increasing income-generating or job-creating opportunities for its target populations. For more information please click on the link below. 

This coming year could determine not only whether the world rises to the considerable challenges now facing it—climate change, persistent hunger, increasing inequality, stubborn poverty—but also affecting the fate of generations to come. With a growing population that will exceed 9 billion by 2050, the increasing effects of climate change, a widening gap between rich and poor, and growing competition for resources, the major issues facing humanity cannot wait. Deliberation must give way to deliberate action.

But the global political will to eradicate extreme poverty, hunger and malnutrition within a generation, and the conviction that this is achievable, are growing. An ambitious agenda is emerging in the process of identifying post-2015 development goals. It aims to end poverty everywhere in all its forms, and to end hunger and achieve food security. And it plans to do so sustainably. This would perhaps be one of the greatest steps ever taken to secure the future of humanity and the life of the planet.

Le FIDA a obtenu des résultats importants en matière de promotion d’approches et de processus novateurs d’intégration de l’égalité des sexes favorables aux pauvres dans ses opérations, un domaine dans lequel l’Organisation possède désormais un avantage comparatif. La part des femmes dans les projets appuyés par le FIDA continue de croître, elles représentent désormais la moitié de tous les bénéficiaires. La croissance agricole est plus forte lorsque les femmes, comme les hommes, sont en mesure de participer pleinement aux activités économiques. Lutter contre les inégalités entre les sexes et favoriser l’autonomisation des femmes sont ainsi des objectifs essentiels en vue d’améliorer la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle et de donner aux populations rurales pauvres les moyens de se libérer du joug de la pauvreté. Les faits montrent que dans les économies où l’on observe une plus grande égalité entre les sexes, aussi bien sur le plan des possibilités que des bénéfices, non seulement la croissance économique est supérieure mais la qualité de vie est également meilleure.

Trois quarts des personnes pauvres de la région Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre − environ 90 millions de personnes − vivent dans des zones rurales et dépendent de l’agriculture. Plus de 60% de la population active travaille dans le secteur agricole et la part des femmes ne cesse d’augmenter. Elle est globalement estimée à 70% dans la région et s’élève à 89% dans les pays de la zone sahélienne. Sur le plan sociopolitique, l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre est une région encore très fragile. Elle compte la plus forte concentration d’États appuyés par le FIDA. En dépit de cette fragilité et de la pauvreté qui frappe plus de la moitié de la population, presque tous les pays de la région ont enregistré des progrès considérables au cours de cette dernière décennie, notamment en matière d’éducation, de santé et de redistribution des revenus

En Tunisie, des jeunes femmes ont réussi à monter leurs propres petites entreprises qui produisent et vendent le margoum, broderie traditionnelle d’origine berbère jusqu’alors en voie de disparition.

In Djibouti, pastoral communities have made a clearimprovement in their living conditions with better access to water and strengthened capacity in natural resources conservationa and management.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a project co-sponsored by IFAD helped the war-ravaged country make the transition from immediate relief and rehabilitation to long-term sustainable development.

In Yemen, a community-led project for fostering women's empowerment has imporoved the food security of thousands of landless and smallholder famers living in the poorest areas of the country.  

From 2004 to late 2012, the Dhamar Participatory Rural Development Project, cofunded by IFAD and the Government of Yemen, addressed the needs of the rural population in the Dhamar Governorate.  By ensuring the participation of rural people in the decision-making processes and income-generating activities, the project improved the food security of substience farmers and their families in the villages of Dhamar.

In Syria, large areas of degraded land have been turned into arable land thanks to several IFAD projects that managed to combine the sheer power of bulldozers with the long-term commitment of farmers.

In Syria, a sanduq – a local microfinance institution owned and managed by its members – provides much needed loans to poor rural people, with particular attention to women.

In Somalia, much-needed sources of underground water were identified by using advanced geophysical surveys in those same areas where previous trial-and-error drilling had delivered no results.

In Armenia, Macedonia and Moldova, low-cost refinancing capital makes rural investments attractive and profitable for local banks, and reduces rural poverty by stimulating economic growth.

In Macedonia, IFAD trained individuals to become agricultural advisors and assisted them in establishing private companies that today operate in the market for agricultural development services.

In Jordan, the success of a project co-funded by IFAD largely rested on how quickly rural women were able to learn about borrowing money and setting up and running their own small enterprises.

A Holistic Approach to Farming Research In Egypt, land productivity was improved by an IFAD project that created strong links between farmers, research and extension, and raised resource-use efficiency by integrating crops and livestock. The governorates of Fayoum, Beni Sueif and Minia in Upper Egypt extend for about 200 km along the Nile. In this area, land productivity is low and the potential for bringing additional land into production is limited. The only options available to raise the incomes of rural people living in the area are to improve land productivity and intensify land use. This is what an IFAD project has done through a project consisting of three main elements: 1) agricultural research; 2) the dissemination of research findings through extension activity; and 3) the provision of credit necessary to adopt new technologies. The project established an innovative Farming System Research Unit (FSRU), which operated with a holistic approach. That is to say, the FSRU carried out research activities that were adapted to farmers’ real needs and closely linked to extension delivery, and broadened its focus to include livestock – a relatively neglected area in Egypt.

The primary objective of the project was to promote innovative approaches and ICT-based technologies for timely transfer of weather, water-and crop related information and advice to relevant end users in Africa for informed decision-making and enhanced negotiation capacity with water and farm-related service providers.

This policy reinforces IFAD’s position as a leader in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in agricultural and rural development. It builds on IFAD’s experience and achievements in field operations and in the broader policy arena in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment. The policy will provide IFAD with strategic guidance in systematizing, intensifying and scaling up its efforts to close gender gaps and improve the economic and social status of rural women in rapidly changing rural environments. 

Ghana has the third largest IFAD country programme in the West and Central Africa region. The programme contributes to building inclusive and
sustainable institutions, backed by pro-poor investments and policies as well as relevant innovation and learning. IFAD supports the main thrusts of the government’s Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda – including accelerated agricultural modernization, sustainable natural resource
management and enhanced private-sector competitiveness. 

Its work also aligns with Ghana’s Medium Term Agriculture Sector Investment Plan on food security, income growth and other programme areas related to rural poverty reduction.

Somalia’s poverty and food security situation remains critical after years of conflict and natural disasters. Since the 1980s, IFAD has supported nine programmes in the country for a total of US$140 million.
There is currently no country strategic opportunities programme for Somalia.

However, the strategic objectives of IFAD interventions in Somalia can be summarized as follows:
• Increase incomes and food security by supporting agriculture and related activities, improving access to water, sanitation and health care, strengthening the natural resource base and building rural financial services;
• Identify and promote pro-poor investment mechanisms in rural areas for dissemination, replication and scaling up; and
• Build the capacity of the diaspora and promote the transformation of people in the diaspora into agents of development through remittances – the portion of their earnings that migrants outside the country send home.

The World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP) is a global knowledge and advocacy network that promotes understanding of sustainable pastoral development for both poverty reduction and sustainable environmental management. WISP was executed by the International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN).

The Programme built the capacity of pastoral institutions to engage in advocacy based on state-of-the-art global learning on sustainable pastoralism, enabling pastoralist institutions around the world to network and shared experiences and opportunities, and ensured that the voice of pastoralists remained central to policy discourse and learning.

Land is fundamental to the lives of poor rural people. It is a source of food, shelter, income and social identity.

Secure access to land reduces vulnerability to hunger and poverty. But for many of the world’s poor rural people in developing countries, access is becoming more tenuous than ever. 

In 2013, IFAD commissioned a study to analyse project management arrangements for market‑oriented smallholder agriculture. As IFAD adapts to the changing development discourse, the organization has focused increasingly on improving Project Management Unit (PMU) arrangements in order to provide more effective and expanded management and technical skills. This review was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of PMUs and their alignment with the Paris Declaration principles, as well as to identify lessons or frameworks to guide future project management and implementation arrangements. It investigated five case studies drawn from different regions and types of projects.  

 IFAD has been working in small island developing states (SIDS) for 35 years, financing investments for smallholder farmers and fishers.

IFAD recognizes that small island developing states are different than other developing countries. 

They face constraints that are quite particular to their size, remoteness, insularity and ocean resource base. In the light of a changing world and new challenges faced by rural people living in SIDS, IFAD recently took the opportunity of the Global Conference on Small Island Developing States held in Samoa in 2014 to articulate its lessons learned and current approach to financing investment in rural people in its paper presented at the Conference, IFAD’s approach in Small Island Developing States.

Le Mécanisme d’assistance pour les peuples autochtones (IPAF), mis en place par le FIDA, a pour objectif de renforcer les communautés de populations autochtones et leurs organisations par le financement de petits projets qui favorisent leur développement autonome dans le cadre de la Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones, pour en tirer des enseignements et définir des approches en vue d’une reproduction et d’une application à plus grande échelle.

The Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility (IPAF)1 finances small projects designed and implemented directly by indigenous peoples’ communities and their organizations. The projects are selected through global calls for proposals, based on a competitive process. In managing the IPAF when it was established in 2007, IFAD realized that the Facility was not only a grant-making mechanism, but it also contained a wealth of knowledge derived from the project proposals themselves. With its limited funding, the IPAF can support only a small number of these proposals. Thus, a knowledge-harvesting mechanism was set up with funding from the Initiative for Mainstreaming Innovation (IMI). 

L’accès équitable à la terre et la sécurité foncière des groupes cibles du FIDA sont essentiels au développement rural et à l’éradication de la pauvreté. La sécurité foncière influe sur la mesure dans laquelle les agriculteurs sont disposés à investir dans l’amélioration de la production et de la gestion des terres. Elle façonne les relations sociales et contribue à la stabilité de la société – ou plutôt, son absence contribue à l’instabilité et aux conflits sociaux. La sécurité foncière influence la répartition du produit de l’activité agricole entre les individus et les groupes, tant au sein des ménages qu’au sein des communautés. Elle peut aussi avoir un impact sur l’accès au crédit.

La petite production animale repose largement sur l’agriculture familiale et joue un rôle essentiel dans la subsistance des populations rurales pauvres, la sécurité alimentaire et la création d’emplois. L’élevage constitue une ressource alimentaire pour la consommation des ménages et offre des produits qui permettent de générer des revenus et de créer des rentrées d’argent rapides pour faire face aux situations d’urgence et aux chocs externes (conditions climatiques, maladies, volatilité des prix, etc.). L’élevage offre des atouts appréciables qui répondent aux divers besoins des petits exploitants (fumier, moyen de traction et de transport, etc.), tout en ayant une valeur culturelle et spirituelle. L’élevage de la volaille et des petits ruminants est généralement géré par les femmes, lesquelles en tirent des bénéfices directs.

Fort de l’action menée en près de quarante ans dans plus de 70 pays et grâce aux fonds investis dans des initiatives de finance rurale, soit globalement plus de 1,1 milliard d’USD, le FIDA est riche d’une expérience aux multiples facettes et peut compter sur un réseau mondial de partenaires qui travaillent aux frontières de l'innovation et sur des centaines de prestataires de tout ordre prêts à répondre aux besoins financiers des ménages ruraux pauvres qui constituent leur clientèle. La plupart des trois milliards de personnes qui vivent en milieu rural subsistent encore aujourd’hui avec moins de deux dollars par jour. Les défis que représentent les chocs économiques, les pénuries alimentaires et le changement climatique pèsent sur les populations pauvres de manière disproportionnée. En règle générale, les ménages ruraux pauvres n’ont pas accès aux facilités offertes par le secteur financier officiel.

Processus de reproduction à plus grande échelle intelligents face au climat

L’avantage comparatif du FIDA réside dans son expérience de travail au niveau local, dans sa compréhension des contraintes auxquelles sont confrontées les populations rurales pauvres, y compris les plus vulnérables, et dans sa capacité à envisager des approches du développement socioéconomique sans exclusive. Le soutien aux organisations rurales de petits exploitants, en vue de favoriser l’autonomisation des ruraux pauvres, fait partie des éléments clés de l'approche du développement adoptée par le FIDA. Les organisations de petits exploitants, lorsqu’elles sont fortes, ouvertes à tous et qu’elles bénéficient d’une large assise, représentent des partenaires importants pour les gouvernements, les ONG, les donateurs et les acteurs du secteur privé à la recherche de nouveaux marchés.

Taller regional de América Latina y el Caribe en preparación de la segunda reunión mundial del Foro de Pueblos Indígenas en el FIDA.

Africa Regional Workshop in preparation for the Second Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD.

La méthode a été élaborée par le Réseau des hommes (Men’s Network), qui se charge de sa mise en œuvre.

L’accompagnement des ménages est mis en œuvre dans les régions nord et sud du Malawi, dans les périmètres d’irrigation de Likangala, Limphasa, Muona et Nkhata des districts de Chikwawa, Nkhata Bay, Nsanje et Zomba. Dans le district de Zomba, cette approche a été appliquée à six groupes dans les zones de planification de la vulgarisation de Malosa, Mpokwa et Thondwe. 

To address food security problems and soaring prices for basic commodities, in December 2008 the European Union launched a Food Facility totalling €1 billion spread over three years, from 2009 to 2011. Under this initiative, the regional programme IFAD-EU-ECOWAS Food Facility was established with a budget of €20 million. The regional programme covers a number of countries in West Africa.

To assure food security and protect the population from recurrent crises, countries dependent on foreign aid for much of their food supply, such as Benin, Mali, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, have designed strategies and programmes to support food security that are intended to increase food production through the intensification of strategic crops such as rice, cassava, yams and ground nuts, and widespread use of selected seeds and mineral fertilizers.

The Belgian Fund for Food Security (BFFS) was created by the Belgian Parliament in 1983 in response to the more than one million drought- and faminerelated deaths in East Africa. BFFS provides grants to pay for rural development projects, with a focus on food security and nutrition, in some of the poorest countries in Africa, helping extremely poor people to become healthier and more productive and lowering the risk that they will face starvation. 

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized United Nations agency, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. It is dedicated to eradicating poverty and hunger in rural areas of developing countries. Through low-interest loans and grants, it develops and finances programmes and projects that enable poor rural people to overcome poverty themselves.

What is the International Year of Family Farming? Small family farms are the key to reducing poverty and improving global food security. The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) to recognize the importance of family farming in reducing poverty and improving global food security. The IYFF aims to promote new development policies, particularly at the national but also regional levels, that will help smallholder and family farmers eradicate hunger, reduce rural poverty and continue to play a major role in global food security through small-scale, sustainable agricultural production. 

The IYFF provides a unique opportunity to pave the way towards more inclusive and sustainable approaches to agricultural and rural development that: Recognize the importance of smallholder and family farmers for sustainable development; Place small-scale farming at the centre of national, regional and global agricultural, environmental and social policies; Elevate the role of smallholder farmers as agents for alleviating rural poverty and ensuring food security for all; as stewards who manage and protect natural resources; and as drivers of sustainable development.

This note highlights the lessons learned in supporting smallholder institutions and organizations. 

The Twa “Pygmy” of the Republic of Burundi are a small minority of around 80,000 people that self-identify as indigenous and are considered as such by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the UN system. 

This How To Do Note guides design and country teams in conducting an initial analysis of organizations and their capacity development needs at the project design stage. It provides a conceptual framework and practical suggestions and tools to help practitioners systematically collate and summarize information captured during design missions. 

Dans un grand nombre de pays en développement,
le changement climatique fait peser une menace sur la
base de ressources naturelles. Il accélère la dégradation
des écosystèmes et rend l’agriculture plus aléatoire.
Par conséquent, les petits exploitants, qui jouent un
rôle essentiel pour la sécurité alimentaire mondiale,
sont confrontés à des conditions météorologiques
plus extrêmes. Les petits agriculteurs subissent de
façon plus immédiate l’impact des sécheresses, des
inondations et des tempêtes, mais ils sont en outre
touchés progressivement par les effets du changement
climatique, comme le stress hydrique dont souffrent
les cultures et le bétail, l’érosion des côtes due à
l’élévation du niveau de la mer et les infestations
imprévisibles de ravageurs.

Under the 9th  Replenishment, IFAD committed to moving 80 million rural people out of poverty cumulative from 2010 onwards to 2015, and conducting 30 rigorous impact assessments. Hence the urgent need for appropriate methodologies for impact assessment. To respond to this need, a few piloting initiatives have been launched, one of which is the Improved Learning Initiative (ILI) 2. This  initiative  aims  to  develop  a  potentially  scalable  Participatory  Impact  Assessment  and Learning Approach (PIALA) that can help IFAD and its partners collaboratively assess, explain and debate its contributions to rural poverty impact. The PIALA design and piloting is funded by IFAD’s DFID-financed Innovation Mainstreaming Initiative (IMI) and BMGF’s Measurement, Learning and Evaluation Unit in the Agricultural Development Program; and with important contributions from IFAD’s Country Program Offices and partners in the pilot countries (Vietnam and Ghana), and its Strategy & Knowledge Management and Program Management Departments.

In February 2013, the First Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples Forum took place at the IFAD headquarters in Rome, in conjunction with the 36th session of the Governing Council. In attendance at this inaugural meeting were 31 indigenous people’s representatives from 25 countries in Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean regions. Of the 19 Asia- Pacific regional representatives, two were from the Pacific; Mr. Anthony Wale, the Executive Director Aoke Langalanga Constituency Apex Association (ALCAA), and Ms Rufina Peter, Senior Research Officer at the PNG Institute of National Affairs.

During the meeting the Pacific representatives highlighted the need for the Pacific to have a “separate identity” as per the outcomes of Asia Pacific regional preparatory workshop in Bangkok. The issue was one of visibility for the Pacific Region due to its unique, rich and diverse cultures and traditions, its significant land and sea area and its high biodiversity. The Pacific Regional meeting proposed three action plans, of which the Pacific Regional Workshop in preparation of the Second Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD is a direct result.

This report proceeds from the Global Forum on Remittances held in Bangkok, Thailand in 2013.

Cette méthodologie entend promouvoir la participation active des chefs et des dirigeants traditionnels au développement humain inclusif dans les communautés rurales de Zambie.

L’approche axée sur les ménages a été mise en œuvre dans le cadre du Programme de soutien de l’agriculture exécuté dans quatre provinces (Centrale, Orientale, Septentrionale et Méridionale) de la Zambie, et a couvert 22 des 72 districts, dans 242 secteurs de vulgarisation agricole.

The purpose of this Guide is to support institutional and organizational analysis and strengthening (IOA/S) for design and implementation of programmes and projects.
The Guide is designed to be a practical, hands-on set of directions to those needing to answer the following questions: “how to go about doing institutional and organizational analysis? And once I’ve done it, how do I go about using this analysis to promote sustainable institutions and organizations?”

This is intended as a user-friendly Guide, the use of which could help identify strategic partners and key areas for intervention at COSOP level; to deepen the COSOP analysis at the design stage by generating interventions that support sustainable institutions and organizations, and progress
at implementation stage should be easier to monitor and evaluate effectively. 

Since 1978, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has worked
with small-scale farmers in 122 countries and territories around the world to help
them overcome rural poverty and increase their food and nutrition security. IFAD
has invested a total of about US$15.6 billion in grants and low-interest loans to
developing countries, reaching more than 400 million people.
Agricultural development can be a major driver of poverty reduction. IFAD acts as
an advocate for poor rural people, helping to create an enabling environment – with
appropriate policies, know-how, finance, infrastructure and market access – for
them to improve their lives and livelihoods.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development works with small-scale farmers in 98 countries and territories around the world to help them overcome rural
poverty and increase food security. Since 1978, IFAD has invested over US$16 billion in grants and low-interest loans to projects that have reached more
than 430 million people.

Agricultural development can be a major driver of poverty reduction. IFAD acts as an advocate for poor rural people, helping to create an enabling
environment – with appropriate policies, know-how, finance, infrastructure and market access – for them to improve their lives and livelihoods.

The “Strengthening smallholder institutions and organizations toolkit” provides valuable guidance to help practitioners analyze and address issues related to smallholder institutions and organizations during the devopment of country strategies and in the design and implementation of programmes and projects.

IFAD sees smallholder farmers as more than just victims of climate change: they are a vital part of the solution to the ‘wicked’ climate change problem.

Climate change and sustainable development are the central challenges of our time. They are inseparably linked and need to be addressed together. Action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate impacts is essential for ensuring sustainable development. At the same time, only sustainable development can provide the stable political, economic, social and environmental conditions that all countries need to address climate change successfully and
build carbon-neutral economies. This is why the UN system is fully committed to supporting the international community as it confronts climate change while working to build a sustainable world for the twenty-first century.

Natural resources (land, water, forests, fisheries) are fundamental to the survival of rural people. The livelihoods of most poor people depend on agriculture, which in turn hinges on the continued productiveness of the land and availability of water resources. Land and water, in addition to forests, offer the compendium of ecological goods and services that smallholders in developing countries need for their economic development; they can also provide a safety net in times of crisis. These resources are also global public goods. Natural resources need to be managed sustainably not only on smallholder farms and in individual sectors (e.g. selected sources of water or forest reserves) but in the totality of ecosystems that support their existence.

South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC) has become an integral part of IFAD’s support to ESA programmes. The transfer of effective approaches and technologies enables countries of the South to join forces in meeting their aims of reducing rural poverty and ensuring food security. By using experts from other countries in project design, for instance, or setting up learning and sharing opportunities in the region, IFAD has helped foster such exchanges. 

The indigenous population of the Republic of Congo (RC) include the Baka, Mbendjele, Mikaya, Luma, Gyeli, Twa and Babongo peoples. Depending on sources, these peoples represent a small minority of 1.25 to 10 percent of RC’s estimated population of 4.4 million, primarily of Bantu origin.

L’objet de cette note “Leçons apprises” est de partager avec les équipes chargées de la conception des projets filière des observations fondées sur les Leçons apprises du FIDA et des autres bailleurs de fonds qui pourraient les aider dans leur mission. 

IFAD is committed to gender equality. Women embody half the talent and energy at any country’s disposal. That’s why greater gender equality leads to higher economic growth and better lives.

La ligne de crédit est un prêt consenti à une institution financière participante, qui en rétrocède le produit à ses clients sous forme de prêts assortis d’intérêts. 

Cette étude de cas illustre comment la méthode de la transformation familiale a été utilisée efficacement en Éthiopie, en soulignant comment elle a fonctionné dans un contexte particulier.

Les études de cas présentent des interventions (du FIDA et d’autres organismes de développement) dans le cadre desquelles des méthodologies axées sur les ménages ont été utilisées efficacement, en précisant comment chacune d’entre elles a donné de bons résultats dans un contexte donné. 

Le présent document met en lumière l'expérience du FIDA et de certains de ses partenaires dans le domaine des produits, des services, des méthodes et des approches liés aux FGP. Il aidera le chargé de programme de pays (CPP) du FIDA à mettre en oeuvre les bonnes pratiques basées sur des données factuelles, qui peuvent apporter une contribution à cet axe thématique du FIDA.

La présente brochure met en lumière les raisons justifiant l'utilisation des FGP et examine les différents types d'accords de garantie ainsi que leurs forces, leurs faiblesses et les possibilités qu'ils offrent. Elle résume en outre l'expérience acquise au niveau mondial en matière de FGP. Elle a été rédigée à partir de consultations et d'études sur dossier guidées par les documents sur la Politique du FIDA en matière de finance rurale (2009) et les Outils décisionnels du FIDA en matière de finance rurale (2010). 

Pour réduire la pauvreté, l'un des outils essentiels consiste à ouvrir l'accès au système financier pour ceux qui en sont exclus. Les organisations financières à assise communautaire (community-based financial organizations – CBFO) sont souvent les seules structures disponibles pour fournir aux ruraux pauvres les services financiers essentiels, surtout dans les zones éloignées dépourvues d'infrastructures. 

 Le présent document examine les ICP et les AFP au niveau des institutions financières partenaires. Dans ce contexte, des objectifs clés de performance figurent dans différents documents, tels que plans stratégiques, plans d'activité et, éventuellement, budgets à différents niveaux. En outre, ils peuvent constituer un important instrument d'appui à la gestion fondée sur les résultats.

This How To Do Note highlights the philosophy and rationale for LOCs, focusing on different types of LOC arrangements, as well as their strengths, weaknesses and opportunities. It summarizes global experience with LOCs in order to clearly outline when they should and should not be used. It presents practical aspects of specific approaches, methodologies and models that have been tested and can be recommended for
implementation and scaling up. 

This Lessons Learned note provides practical suggestions and guidelines to CPMs and the country programme management to help them design and implement programmes and projects. 

The purpose of this guidance is to provide CPMTs with some observations based on lessons learned from IFAD and other donors’ projects, as well as from the World Bank Operations Evaluation Department (OED 2006) LOC review that may help in the design of LOCs. 

This How To Do Note helps design teams to improve their understanding of different types of community-based financial organizations and the support structures they need to best serve remote poor rural communities.

This note provides an overview on Loan Guarantee Funds highlighting the main issues, challenges, opportunities and benefits.

La desserte des zones rurales reculées n'intéresse pas les banques du secteur formel, du fait de l'absence d'économies d'échelle, de coûts de transaction élevés et de la conviction que les ruraux pauvres n e constituent pas un marché viable. Les organisations financières à assise communautaire (community-based financial organizations – CBFO) sont souvent les seules structures disponibles pour fournir aux ruraux pauvres les services financiers de base, surtout dans les zones dépourvues des infrastructures élémentaires. 

This note provides an overview on key performance indicators and performance-based agreements highlighting the main issues, challenges, opportunities and benefits.

This note provides an overview on lines of credit illustrating the the key issues and the main challenges, opportunities and benefits.

Les études de cas présentent des interventions (du FIDA et d’autres organismes de développement) dans le cadre desquelles des méthodologies axées sur les ménages ont été utilisées efficacement, en précisant comment chacune d’entre elles a donné de bons résultats dans un contexte donné. 

The toolkit on Household Methodologies (HHMs) is composed of three parts.

Strong links to markets for poor rural producers are essential to increasing agricultural income, generating economic growth in rural areas and reducing hunger and poverty. Every product that is sold locally, nationally or internationally is often part of an agricultural value chain (VC). From a development perspective, VCs are one of the instruments through which market forces can be harnessed to benefit poor rural women and men – not just producers, but wage earners, service providers and others.

This How To Do Note provides a description of the participatory land-use planning (PLUP) methodology with the steps that should be followed to implement it in IFAD interventions with some practical examples of how this has been done. 

This How To Do Note provides guidance on how to carry out a land assessment at the project design stage.

Through this assessment, it will be possible to identify key land tenure issues in the project area and to indicate how they can be resolved through project activities and interventions.

This How To Do Note provides guidance on how to carry out a land assessment at the RB-COSOP stage to provide indications on key land tenure issues that the country (or area of interest) is facing and how they could be strategically addressed to achieve the country’s strategic objectives. 

This note highlights lessons learned on pastoralism land rights and tenure aiming to inform the design and implementation of country strategies and projects from the point of view of land tenure issues faced by pastoralists.

It also provides examples of how IFAD has dealt with some of these issues through its programmes and projects.

Le régime foncier désigne les règles, les autorités, les institutions, les droits et les normes qui régissent l’accès à la terre et aux ressources qu’elle offre, ainsi que leur contrôle. Il définit les règles et les droits qui régissent l’appropriation, le choix des cultures et l’utilisation des ressources naturelles sur un territoire ou une parcelle de terre donnés.

Le FIDA a toujours adopté une approche proactive de ciblage des ruraux pauvres de tous âges, dans le but de réduire les inégalités sociales et économiques qui contribuent à générer et perpétuer la pauvreté.

Jusqu'à une date relativement récente, l'attention portée aux besoins et attentes des jeunes était limitée, car ils n'étaient pas considérés comme des acteurs à part entière mais plutôt comme des subordonnés, des bénéficiaires indirects et ils étaient dès lors invisibles.

De tels sentiments ont radicalement changé, et les projets financés par le FIDA sont de plus en plus nombreux à prendre des dispositions spécifiques en faveur du développement de la jeunesse.

Key performance indicators (KPIs) can be used in an IFAD-sponsored project to measure performance in a
regular and consistent manner. This note discusses the use of KPIs as well as the challenges associated with it. This discussion is followed by a review of the lessons learned by IFAD and other organizations, and concludes with strategic recommendations for follow-up.

The post-2015 development agenda can be structured to encourage governments and other actors to focus on strengthening the resilience of poor rural people and their livelihoods.

A number of targets that provide the basis to achieve this have already been proposed, particularly focusing on the promotion of more sustainable practices in agriculture.

IFAD POST-2015 POLICY BRIEF

Key sources in the post-2015 debate stress the role of agriculture in food security and nutrition, and suggest possible targets underscoring the role of agriculture with respect to food security and nutrition.

La méthode GALS a été mise au point dans le cadre du programme Autonomisation de l’intégration des femmes et réseautage pour la justice de genre dans le développement économique (Women’s Empowerment Mainstreaming and Networking [WEMAN]) conduit par Oxfam Novib depuis 2008 avec des partenaires locaux et Linda Mayoux. L’application de cette méthode au développement des filières a été lancée à titre pilote par Oxfam Novib et ses partenaires en Ouganda grâce à un petit don du FIDA (2009-2011). La méthode a ensuite été déployée par Oxfam Novib avec des partenaires locaux au Nigéria, en Ouganda et au Rwanda avec l’appui d’un don plus important du FIDA (2011-2014) ainsi que dans d’autres pays grâce aux cofinancements d’autres donateurs. 

Les Brochures Note pratique fournissent des outils pour concevoir et exécuter des projets sur la base des meilleures pratiques observées sur le terrain. Elles aideront les équipes à mettre en œuvre les recommandations spécifiques contenues dans les politiques opérationnelles du FIDA, les exigences standard pour les projets et les outils de financement. 

Young people are the future. But all too often in today’s world young women and men are marginalized and excluded – from decent employment and from crucial decisions about how to address the big challenges that face us all. Their voices are rarely heard in democratic debate and their needs and views are rarely reflected in policies and programmes. Yet more than ever the world needs young people’s ideas, their talents and their energy. In rural areas, we particularly need their drive and innovative skills to sustainably produce the food required by an increasingly populous and urbanized world.

This note aims to inform the design and implementation of results-based country strategic opportunities programmes (RB-COSOPs) and projects by describing how youth are affected by insecurity of tenure and how such issues have been dealt with. It should be used at strategy, design and implementation stages.

The note explains the issues related to youth and land tenure and how they have been addressed in IFAD and other projects and programmes.

Bangladesh is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries affected by climate
change. During the monsoon period, the Haor region of Bangladesh becomes
completely inundated with 4-8 metres of water for around 6-7 months of the year.
Flash fl oods are common, and in some years 80-90 per cent of crops are lost
because of extreme weather events. The situation is expected to worsen as a climate
change-related shift towards pre-monsoon rainfall is coinciding with the paddy rice
pre-harvest period. This severely affects food output in the Haor, which provides up
to 16 per cent of national rice production.
 

The agricultural sector in Rwanda has been hit hard by climate change. Agricultural
production is increasingly exposed to drought, intense and erratic rainfall, high winds
and emerging seasonal and temperature shifts. If not addressed, climate variability
will mean signifi cant economic costs – estimated at up to US$300 million annually
by 2030.

The northern part of Nigeria is particularly vulnerable to climate change, which is reducing rural income as a result of decreased agricultural productivity – agricultural yields have declined by 20 per cent over the last 30 years in the north. ASAP interventions under CASP will strengthen the capacity of farmers to use climate information for the planning and promotion of climate-resilient farming techniques. It will also implement larger investments to reduce the impact of climate hazards on rural infrastructure, farms and livelihoods.

The project will increase the availability of adaptation assets and knowledge, which will enable target households to cope with the changing climate situation. 

The programme will support institutional capacity-building and greater public awareness on topics related to climate change resilience. Water users’ associations and farmer organizations, among other
members of the selected value chains, will benefit from activities such as the dissemination of climate change adaptation toolkits, national and international exchange visits, the dissemination of good practices
and training.

NICADAPTA will improve incomes and quality of life for rural families – and reduce their vulnerability to the impact of climate change – by facilitating access to markets for valueadded coffee and cocoa. It will introduce water efficiency and crop diversification measures such as coffee-cocoa intercropping in coffee plantations to buffer the effects of rising temperatures.

Kyrgyzstan is a food-deficit and low-income country, with a geographical position and topographical make-up that contribute to making it one of the most vulnerable
countries to the impacts of climate change in Central Asia. The country suffers from drought, land and mudslides. Flooding events and river erosion are set to increase in frequency and intensity. The mountainous nature of the country renders 45 per cent of Kyrgyzstan’s land inhospitable. The majority of the population live in valleys and at the foothills of the mountains, where vulnerability to climate-related hazards is highest.

Viet Nam is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world and among the countries hardest hit by climate change. Rising sea levels (between 75 and
100 centimetres by the end of this century) are expected to affect 20-50 per cent of the low-lying Mekong Delta. Changes in rainfall and temperatures are increasing the risk of fl oods, typhoons and droughts. Climate change has serious implications for Viet Nam’s socio-economic development, especially in the densely populated and productive Mekong Delta.