South-south Cooperation in IFAD’s Operating ModelSouth-south Cooperation in IFAD’s Operating Model ______________________________________________

Presented by: Thomas Elhaut, Director, Asia and Pacific Region

Based on corporate review done by Thomas Elhaut and Nicoló Berghinz, SSC Specialist

15 September 2010

Flow of presentation

I. Background

II. Illustration of IFAD’s experience

III. Lessons learnt

IV. Ways forward

I. Background: definition and value added

Definition

► Long history: Bandung, 1955► SSC is intensifying and diversifying► IFAD’s working definition of SSC:

two-way process fluid and direct interchange ideas, technologies and goods between people, directly agricultural (rural) productivity and profitability within and across regions leading to change, action on the ground with win-win-win opportunities

► Consistent with IFAD’s policies

Value added of SSC

► Scouting for rural innovations► Replication► Enhance IFAD’s:

relevance: appropriate knowledge effectiveness: probability of reaching

development objectives efficiency: reduced transaction costs, reduced

risks

► Sustainability ► Earlier and predictable upscaling

SSC concretises the KM agenda

► Demand- driven: south-south partnerships sustainable (production and communication) technology profitable rural enterprise models inclusive institutions and pro-poor policies enabling approaches for rural poverty reduction

► IFAD as facilitator: the triangular dimension corporate strategy objectives: areas of comparative

advantage increasingly: agricultural (rural) productivity, profitability

II. IFAD’s Experience

Typology of engagement

►Dimension of IFAD’s operating model: one of IFAD’s operating modalities

►Special purpose activities linked to IFAD investment programmes

Project Natureof activity

Date IFAD's contribution

(in USD)

Status

ICT Africa-Latin America grant funded 2005 150 000 Completed

Palenque Learning Route grant funded 2006 60 000 Completed

Pro-poor policy with FAO grant funded 2007 1 500 000 Ongoing

Competitiveness Greater Mekong Sub-region grant funded 2007 609 000 Ongoing

Learning Route Ecuador – Peru, market access grant funded 2007 900 000 Completed

Cambodia – China in project 2008 200 000 Completed

Cooperation with farmers’ organizations grant funded 2008 1 420 000 Ongoing

First Asia Regional Gathering Pastoral Women grant funded 2009 200 000 Ongoing

Terra Madre India and Brazil grant funded 2009 200 000 Ongoing

New Delhi Conference grant funded 2010 200 000 Completed

Brazil-Africa Agricultural Innovation Marketplace grant funded 2010 500 000 Ongoing

Indigenous Partnerships grant funded 2010 100 000 being processed

Promoting SSC with China, knowledge sharing grant funded 2010 200 000 being processed

Some examples: 13 specific activities

New Delhi Conference on Rural Transformation

1) India, Brazil, China, South Africa2) Policy focus:

inclusive and sustainable rural development effective governance efficiency and effectiveness of public policy and programmes

3) Approach: reinforcement of PPP (public, private, people/partnership) gender issues development of small scale producers land reforms financial services ICT enhancement efficient resource allocation

4) to be opened up to other developing countries5) IFAD: 200 000 $; technical inputs in conference;

support to follow-up (South Africa)

Enhancing Agricultural Competitiveness in the Greater Mekong Subregion

1) Cambodia, China (Yunnan), Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam

2) Participants policy makers chambers of commerce farmers and their organisations technical experts

3) Content new agricultural technologies commodity chains expanded trade

4) IFAD: 609 000 $, CPM for Laos and Vietnam ensures link to ongoing projects (supervision next month)

the other triangle

Consortium for Unfavourable Rice Environments (CURE) with IRRI (CGIAR)

1) 10 South and Southeast Asian countries 2) NARES, IRRI researchers, farmers and

extension workers3) diverse rice ecosystems4) on-site farmer-participatory research5) multidisciplinary approach for technology

generation, validation, and dissemination6) broad-based capacity building7) IFAD: supervision, link to ongoing projects

in Laos and Bangladesh

Africa-Brazil Agricultural Innovation Marketplace

1) Innovative technologies for smallholders (women) in Africa

2) Participants: policymakers scientists and experts NGOs, African organizations, foundations universities private sector

3) Components: policy dialogue Marketplace Africa-Brazil projects

4) IFAD: USD 500 000

China-Asia-Africa SSC Seminar

1) Madagascar, Rwanda, Bangladesh and Vietnam

2) Content: the climate change food quality and safety rural technologies community participation multi-sectoral and coordinated investments managed approach to poverty reduction policy

planning

Regional Gathering of Pastoralist Women

1) Pastoralist women

2) In Asia, Near and Middle East

3) Components knowledge-sharing capacity building regional platform

4) women influence local and national policies

5) IFAD: 200 000 $; technical support of the IFAD livestock advisor, link to ongoing projects

RUTAs: the learning routes in LAC

A systematised process: PROCASUR farmers and their associations, rural organizations, technicians

and private sector representatives learning in the field organized thematically around good practices in rural

development experiences of rural institutions, communities and families Innovation Plan: inclusive strategy for the community as a whole supports for subsequent on-the-ground replication and

implementation on-line platforms to serve rural development projects and their

beneficiaries

IFAD: CPM for Colombia and Peru is part of the facilitation mechanism and ensures link to ongoing projects

Learning Routes in LAC and beyond (e.g. Rwanda, Malawi)

1) Examples of learning routes: Sharing knowledge about market access in Ecuador

and Peru Successful Colombian Rural Micro-enterprises Improving the quality of life for the community of

Palenque Talented Rural Youth: learning from their experiences

in accessing land and financial and business services

2) IFAD: replicating the learning route approach in Asia (November, in China)

III. Lessons learnt

elect true champions as hosts manage knowledge content: driven by

guests’ demand with flexibility secure financing to sustain the process assure evidence-based KM (results) institutions matter:

select institution that has SSC know-how build-in sustainability in the programme

IV. Ways Forward

The future of SSC

►Maintain: current diversity, flexibility, innovation, decentralisation

►Add: corporate strategic dimension a corporate window: policy and strategy in nature,

to support and enhance current SSC approach monitor the financing of SSC systematise knowledge management

Increased coordination and cross-fertilisation as part of KM strategy

► Corporate coordination function in the office of the CDS

► Core responsibilities:► accelerate and upscale SSC

► stronger direction, strategic selectivity

► KM and results focus

► stronger policy impact (advocacy)

Thank you for your attention