Enabling the rural poor to overcome poverty

The Rural Poor

Transforming livelihoods in the drylands

Enabling the rural poor to overcome poverty

IFAD’S Focus

Rural poverty alleviation

through

agricultural and rural development

supported by

loans, grants, policy dialogue,

partnerships & advocacy

Enabling the rural poor to overcome poverty

Strategic Objectives

Enabling the rural poor to overcome poverty

Key Findings

• 1.2 billion people live in extreme poverty

• 900 million (75%) live in rural areas

• most depend on agriculture for survival

• livelihoods of 1 billion people threatenedby desertification

• increased emphasis on national ownership

• land degradation variations across regions, countries and agro-ecological zones

Enabling the rural poor to overcome poverty

Sustainable Rural Development

The twin challenges of

poverty

and

environmental degradation

Enabling the rural poor to overcome poverty

IFAD’s Support to UNCCD

• support for local initiatives:

increased agricultural production

natural resource management

• hosting global facilities (GM, ILC)

• research and NGO-ECP grants

• NAPs, SRAPs & RAPs

• Special Programme for African Countries Affected by Drought & Desertification 1985-95

Enabling the rural poor to overcome poverty

IFAD has been GEF Executing Agency since May 2001

What can IFAD bring to GEF?

• poverty focus & targeting

• delivery capacity

• effective partnerships & institutional framework at local & country levels

• diversity of ideas & innovation

• resource mobilisation

• sustainability & replication

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* IFAD initiated

IFAD Pipeline of GEF Projects

UNDP, CABEI, communities

Full size(USD 4.9m)

Multifocal areas (OP 12)

Honduras

World BankAppraisal Biodiversity and Climate Change (OP 12)

Egypt (Second Matrouh)

AsDB, UNDPGlobal Mechanism

PDF BBiodiversity (OP 12 with links to 15)

* China

UNEPConcept Biodiversity* Comoros

UNIDOPDF B (USD 540,000)

Land degradation(OP 15)

Chad & Sudan (Industrial approach to combating desertification

UNDP, Global MechanismPDF B Land Degradation (OP 15 with links to 13)

* BrazilSemi-arid lands of NE

Partnership(s)StatusGEF focal areaCountry

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Contd.

* IFAD initiated

Partnership(s)StatusGEF focal areaCountry

UNDP, Global Mechanism

UNDP

UNDP

UNDP

UNDP, French Cooperation, GoM

World Bank

Concept stageLand degradation (OP 15 with links to OP 1)

* Venezuela (Lara & Falcon states)

PDF BLand degradation(OP 15)

* Mexico (National microwatershed plan)

Concept NoteLand degradation (OP15 with links to 2 )

* Mauritania (Oasis development )

MSP (final stage)

Biodiversity (OP 12)* Mauritania(Atef & Maghama Ecosystems)

PDF B(US 293,000)

Biodiversity (OP 1)Mali (Boucle du Baoule Biosphere Complex)

Appraisal(USD 6m)

Biodiversity (OP 1,2 with links to 12, 13 & 15)

* Mali (Delta, Mopti region)

UNEPPDF B USD 350, 000

Multifocal areas (OP 12 with links to OP 4)

* Kenya (Mt. Kenya

land & water mgt.)

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Mali GEF: Biodiversity Conservation & Participatory NRM in the Inner Niger Delta & its Transition Areas

Baseline project:

Sahelian Area Development Fund (USD 13.59 m)

• education, information & communication

• local development

• sustainable NRM & biodiversity conservation

• decentralized financial services

• project management & coordination

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Mali GEF:

GEF alternative: (USD 6.0 m)

• capacity building

• monitoring & evaluation

• restoration & development

Implementing Agency: World Bank

GEF work programme entry: July 2003

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Mali:

Potential Regional/Global Environmental Benefits

• conservation of severely threatened sites

• conservation of agro-biodiversity

• preservation of traditional knowledge

• strengthened institutional capacities for sustainable, integrated approaches to NRM

• provision of environmental services & goods by natural resource users

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Honduras:

Integrated Ecosystem & NRM

Baseline components:

National Fund for Sustainable Rural Development (FONADERS)

• institutional strengthening (13%)

• rural development funds (72%)

• implementation support (3%)

• programme management (11%)

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Honduras:

GEF alternative components:

• mainstreaming IEM principles into PRONADEL’s national procedures & operations

• demonstration & validation of IEM principles in PRONADEL’s operations

• capacity building & dissemination of lessons learned

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Honduras:

• GEF support for integrated ecosystem & water-management objectives, principles, techniques & practices into PRONADERS

Global benefits:

• biodiversity conservation & reduced deforestation

• promotion of globally beneficial practices

• financing in USD: IFAD 29.2 m, GEF 4.2 m, CABEI 4.9 m & communities 4.7 m

Implementing Agency: UNDP

GEF Council approval: May 2003

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Advocacy and Political Will:

Working with partners

• national & international policy dialogues

• regional exchanges and workshops

• collaboration in local & global initiatives