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IFAD India
As one of the founding members of IFAD, India is not only a leading donor among the developing countries for IFAD but also has the largest country programme of IFAD in the world ranging from projects for rural development, tribal development, women's empowerment, natural resources management and rural finance. IFAD's strategy in India centres on improving rural poor people's access to economic and social resources through strengthening people's capacities to establish and manage their own institutions. Empowering women and other disadvantaged groups is a strategic priority.
IFAD Vietnam
Trang web ENRAP Việt Nam được thiết lập trước hết dành cho các cán bộ dự án IFAD tại các cấp tỉnh, huyện, và xã nhằm giúp họ chia sẻ và tìm kiếm thông tin liên quan dễ dàng hơn.
GMSAIN
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) comprises Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam. In 1992, with ADB's assistance, the six countries entered into a program of sub regional economic cooperation, designed to enhance economic relations among the countries. Co-sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China and the Asian Development Bank, the GMS Agricultural Information Network is under construction. The objective of the Network is to strengthen exchange of agricultural information so as to promote agricultural cooperation among GMS member countries and agricultural trade through the establishment of an Internet platform employing modern information technology.
RPRP Mongolia
Rural Poverty Reduction Programme aims to achieve a sustainable increase in productive capacity for herders, cultivator and general public and to offer increased access to economic and social resources, including education, health and social networks.
BARANI Pakistan
Barani Area Development Project sponsored by the Government of NWFP of Pakistan aims to improve rural communication and village level infrastructure, improve living standards particularly of small landholders and landless people by enhancing household incomes through improved Agriculture and Natural Resource Management.
RuMEPP, Philippines
Rural Micro-Enterprise Promotion Programme (RuMEPP) aims to reduce rural poverty through increased economic development, job creation, and better incomes for poor rural households by promoting profitable and sustainable micro enterprises (MEs).
NMCIREMP Philippines
North Mindanao Community Initiatives and Resource Management Project for poverty alleviation of rural households focuses on strengthening Community Institutions and self – help groups of marginalized and vulnerable agrarian reform beneficiaries, indigenous people, upland farmers and fisher folk who willfully translate their respective initiatives in the formulation and implementation of development plans that are gender-responsive, culture-sensitive, and ecologically sound.
DAR Philippines
The Department of Agrarian Reform is the lead implementing agency of Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). It undertakes land tenure improvement and development of program beneficiaries and agrarian justice delivery.
WUPAP Nepal
Western Uplands Poverty Alleviation Project (WUPAP) a joint initiative of Government of Nepal and IFAD endeavours to alleviate widespread poverty in the hills and mountains of Mid and Far Western Development Regions. The overall goal of the project is to strengthen the livelihood systems of the target group in the programme districts in a sustainable manner through a rights-based approach, by promoting the formation of grassroots level organizations to empower the participants to mobilize their natural, physical, and financial resources to harness external resources and obtain social justice. The landless and the small and marginal farmers in the project area, especially the women, youth and children and socially and economically disadvantaged groups are the target group of the Project.
PAF Nepal
The purpose and an overriding mission of Poverty Alleviation Fund Nepal is to reduce extreme forms of poverty from programme districts. PAF envisages to develop and implement programmes that address the issues and problems of the lower rung of the society, by involving the poor and the disadvantaged groups themselves as partners in such efforts. The focus areas of PAF are social mobilization to create awareness among community people, capacity building to increase knowledge and improve skills, income generation activities and rural community infrastructure development.
ICIMOD
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, is a regional knowledge development and learning centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. Globalisation and climate change have an increasing influence on the stability of fragile mountain ecosystems and the livelihoods of mountain people. ICIMOD aims to assist mountain people to understand these changes, adapt to them, and make the most of new opportunities, while addressing upstream-downstream issues. ICIMOD supports regional transboundary programmes through partnership with regional institutions, facilitates the exchange of experience, and serves as a regional knowledge hub.
LFLDP Nepal
The overall goal of Leasehold Forest and Livestock Development Programme (LFLDP) is to reduce poverty in the area by allocating leasehold forestry plots to poor families to enable them to increase incomes from forest products and livestock. Specifically the programme objectives are: improve household forage and tree crop production, improve household production of livestock, especially goats, provide access to microfinance institutions and support the government’s capacity to implement leasehold forestry in a gender-sensitive way.
ULIPH India
The Aajeevika Project is targeted at mountain communities living in the western and eastern Himalayas. Traditionally, communities in these regions had evolved subsistence-oriented but stable agriculture and a diversified, livelihood strategy combining crop, livestock, and forestry along with resource recycling and collective sharing. In recent years, however, this equilibrium has been disrupted leading to weakening of the past survival systems and an accentuation of poverty. The project aims to provide opportunities to the poor households to create/enhance livelihoods by applying the principle of self-help and utilizing the self-help group (SHG) movement as the platform from which project activities are launched. This is achieved by developing community institutions and investing in their capacity to take livelihood decisions, and by providing a range of support services and linkages.
CTDP India
The objective of Chhattisgarh Tribal Development Programme is to develop and implement a replicable model that ensures household food security and improves livelihood opportunities and overall quality of life of the tribal population based on the sustainable and equitable use of natural resources. The goal of the programme is to promote sustainable improvement in the food and livelihood security and general quality of life of the target group.
NERCORMP India
The overall objective of the North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project for Upland Areas (NERCORMP) is to improve the livelihood of vulnerable groups in a sustainable manner through improved management of their resource base that would contribute to the preservation and restoration of the environment. The project is trying to address the critical institutions constraint to development in the North East through its responsive approach to communities’ perspectives on needs and priorities; involving the communities more in decision making and planning and making communities responsible for management of their development programmes in order to generate a greater sense of ownership of development interventions.
OTELP India
Orissa Tribal Empowerment and Livelihoods Programme focuses on empowering the tribals and enabling them to enhance their food security, increase their incomes and improve their overall quality of life through more efficient natural resource management based on the principles of improved watershed management and more productive environmentally sound agricultural practices and through off-farm/non-farm enterprise development.
JEEVIKA SEWA India
Jeevika is a seven-year livelihood security project for earthquake-affected rural households in Gujarat. Contrary to typical disaster responses, Jeevika aims to rebuild livelihoods rather than simply provide relief. The project embraces an integrated demand driven and need based approach to implement a comprehensive rural development agenda. In order to realize community driven development IFAD and GOI/GOG agreed that the initiative would be best implemented by a grassroots member-based organization. SEWA was selected as the implementing agency because of its presence in the project area, its reputation for community capacity building and its widespread membership.
SIDBI India
Mission of the Small Industries Development Bank of India is to empower the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector with a view to contributing to the process of economic growth, employment generation and balanced regional development
CHEA India
The mission of Central Himalayan Environment Association (CHEA) is to develop and provide integrated and innovative solutions, in cooperation with regional and international partners, that foster direct action and policy changes for overcoming the environmental, economic and social vulnerability of the Mountain People. Over the last two decades, CHEA has contributed to creating conditions that enable village communities to manage natural resources and benefit from them on a sustainable basis.
JTDS India
Jharkhand Tribal Development Society program seeks to develop and implement a replicable model that ensures household food security and improves livelihood opportunities and overall quality of life of the Tribal population based on sustainable and equitable use of natural resources . This is achieved by empowering the tribal grass root associations and user groups including women and other marginal groups, promoting activities, which generate sustainable increases in production and productivity of land and water resources and generating sources of income outside agriculture, particularly for landless.
AMEPP Bhutan
The Agriculture Marketing and Enterprise Promotion Program of Ministry of Agricuture, Government of Bhutan, envisages poverty alleviation through balanced socio-economic development. The program intervention activities relate to; on-Farm Production; Market and Enterprise Promotion; Rural Financial Services; Infrastructure Development and Management and Facilitation.
BDFCL Bhutan
Bhutan Development Finance Corporation Limited(BDFCL) was established on January 31,1988 as a financial institution to cater to the financial needs of the micro, small and medium enterprises with special focus on agricultural development. BDFCL is registered under companies act of the kingdom of Bhutan-2000 and functions as a non-bank financial institute under the financial act of Bhutan-1992
PIDRA Indonesia
PIDRA (Participatory Integrated Development in Rainfed Areas) is a program of agricultural development in dry land areas assigned for poverty reduction efforts. The Program has helped in fostering self-reliance among poor families living in dry lands.
ICARDA Iran
International Center for Agriculturanl Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) mission is to improve the welfare of poor people and alleviate poverty through research and training in dry areas of the developing world, by increasing the production, productivity and nutritional quality of food, while preserving and enhancing the natural resource base. ICARDA is committed to the advancement of agricultural research; free exchange of germplasm and information for research; protection of intellectual property rights, including indigenous knowledge of farmers; human resources development; the sustainable use of natural resources; and poverty alleviation, particularly among women and children. ICARDA pursues this mission in partnerships with national agricultural research systems in developing countries and with advanced research institutes in industrialized countries.
MORDI Fiji
Mainstreaming of Rural Development Innovations (MORDI) Programme looks at ways to support innovative work (e.g. niche product development and new crop development: coconut oil, market flowers, off-season pineapple etc) where knowledge and infrastructure already exist in communities. In addition, the Programme works to build the capacity of community members to engage effectively with government and service providers – to access sources of funding, information and support – to turn these rural innovations into sources of sustainable income. The population targeted by MORDI is the poor, vulnerable, isolated rural communities in the eight Pacific Island member countries of IFAD: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. The Programme is being implemented by Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International (FSPI), an independent group of like-minded NGOs who work at the grassroots level in nine Pacific countries. Community development is FSPI’s core business which includes various types of awareness programs and advocacy work.
MISFA Afghanistan
MISFA’s mission is to facilitate the development and growth of a long-term, strong and healthy microfinance sector in Afghanistan that provides high quality and efficient financial services to low income people. This is achieved through a grant and loan process that identifies strong partner organizations and encourages “best practice" delivery of appropriate microfinance products and services by these partners.
Pro-Poor Policy Programme
In May 2007, the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO), with support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), launched a regional programme called “Pro-Poor Policy Formulation, Dialogue and Implementation at the Country Level" to assist eight Asian countries – Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam– to reduce rural poverty through enhanced institutional capacity to analyze, formulate and implement pro-poor agricultural and rural development policies.
