IFAD Events
IFAD/FAO Study Tour on "Microfinance for Marginal and Small Farmers, Reaching the Target Group"
Participants from Afghanistan and Bangladesh will have the opportunity to exchange on different approaches with representatives of world leader organization such as BRAC and Grameen Banks during the IFAD/FAO Study Tour on "Microfinance for Marginal and Small Farmers, Reaching the Target Group" in Bangladesh. An expert from African IFAD project will also participate and share lessons learnt and practices adopted in the African context. The study tour will thus represent a starting point to strengthen direct communication and exchange among beneficiaries and project participants from different Asian and African countries. For more information, please visit the links below.
Market Stand Suggestion
Each participant as country representative will prepare a poster with pictures, posters, conceptual, didactive and informative material to distribute, final products (a shawl or juice produced by the target groups for instance) or videos to show your successful activity, rural technical innovation or how you, as IFAD staff, are collaborating with other organisations or research institutions.
Information Note
Mr. Eang Kheou is ready to help you in the booking of the hotel and travel arrangements including visa. Please note that you will be responsible for booking and purchasing your own round trip ticket to Siem Reap in economy class. Upon arrival and presentation of receipts, you will be reimbursed for the actual cost of your travel, up to a given amount. That maximum amount will be equal to the most direct round-trip economy fare as quoted to IFAD by our travel agents. Mr. Eang will inform you of the maximum amount quoted for your air travel ticket reimbursement purchase, according to your specific itinerary. We will be delighted to accommodate additional representatives for each country once we receive all confirmation and ticket prices. IFAD will cover room and breakfast charges for the duration of the workshop as well as coffee breaks, lunches, one official dinner, farewell cocktail and a one day cultural visit as per agenda. A DSA of 25$ per day will be disbursed to those participants staying at the hotel to cover dinner and miscellaneous expenses. Please note that no extras are included for telephone bills, bar, etc..
IFAD Gender Action Plan
Operationalizing the Strategic Framework for IFAD 2002-2006 MAINSTREAMING A GENDER PERSPECTIVE IN IFAD'S OPERATIONS
IFAD Gender Framework 2008
Framework for Gender Mainstreaming in PMD Operations from Kevin Cleaver, AP PMD
Overview
The Livestock and Farming System Team has created the – Livestock Thematic Papers: Tools for Project Design – as a practical tool for development practitioners, with the expectation that it will be useful to IFAD country programme managers, and will lead project designers and policymakers to define appropriate livestock development interventions. The overall purpose of the papers is to help bring livestock interventions to the forefront of development operations, as a key instrument for poverty reduction, for the economic growth of developing countries and for the social wellbeing of poor people at both the individual and the village level.
Value Chains, Linking Producers to the Markets: Livestock Thematic Papers
According to the IFAD Strategic Framework 2007-2010, worldwide changes in agricultural marketing systems and production technologies are opening up opportunities for some small farmers in developing countries. But the poorest and most marginalized rural people rarely benefit. For this reason, a key objective is to ensure that poor rural people have better access to – and the skills and organization to take advantage of – transparent and competitive markets. Within this framework, expanding the capacity for livestock production and its marketing outlets is a potent catalyst for rural poverty reduction.
Checklist Gender Design and Implementation
The project design document contains – and project implementation is based on - gender- disaggregated poverty data and analysis of gender differences in the activities or sectors concerned.
Checklist Gender Design - English 06
Adapted from: “Mainstreaming a gender perspective in IFAD’s operations – Plan of Action, 2003-2006”, the project articulates a gender strategy that aims to expand women’s access to and control over fundamental assets – capital, land, knowledge and technologies; strengthen their agency – thus their decisionmaking role in community affairs and representation in local institutions; and improve well-being and ease workloads by facilitating access to basic rural services and infrastructures.
Gender Checklist: Gates Foundation April 08
Women play a major role in agriculture, and women’s control of resources is critical for poverty reduction. But projects that don’t anticipate the impacts on women or identify the constraints to women’s full participation often fail to reach their objectives. It is critical to identify strategies that are gender inclusive. The overall objective of the Checklist is to ensure that grantees’ understanding of household production includes (1) who (women, men, girls, and boys) does what activities, (2) who has access to what resources, and (3) who makes what decisions regarding household production. The checklists are designed to guide the program officer’s interaction with the grantee in the proposal development phase for each of the four pillars of the Foundation’s Agricultural Program.
IFAD’S Targeting Policy - Checklist for Design
The Gender Targeting Checklist identifies 1) Does the main target group correspond to IFAD’s target group as defined by the Targeting Policy (the extremely poor and food insecure)? 2) Have target sub-groups been identified and described according to their different socio-economic characteristics, assets and livelihoods - with due attention to gender differences? 3) Is evidence provided of interest in and likely uptake of the proposed activities by the identified target sub-groups? 4) Does the design document describe a feasible and operational targeting strategy in line with the Targeting Policy?
ENRAP e - discussion Summary 3rd week Jan 2010
Summary for topic 3 highlights the solutions and recommendations that can be proposed to address some of the concerns identified when making gender strategies?
ENRAP e-discussion on Gender Mainstreaming Strategy of IFAD Funded Projects, Jan 2010: Consolidated Summary
The objective of the discussion was to share experience and knowledge among ENRAP members on gender strategy formulation in the project level to develop a useful stock of knowledge, which will help gender focal points to formulate effective gender strategies for their projects.
Microfinance for Marginal and Small Farmers, Reaching the Target Group, Knowledge Exchange Study Tour
Project staff and government officials working with IFAD's first project in Afghanistan visit Bangladesh to learn about microfinance and how to reach the IFAD target group
Information Note for Participants
Information note for participants for IFAD/FAO Study Tour on “Microfinance for Marginal and Small Farmers, Reaching the Target Group” - Bangladesh, 28 March – 01 April 2010 as part of the “Regional Capacity-building and Knowledge Management for Gender Equality Programme” approved in April 2008 that will complete operations in March 2011.
