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UN Specialize Agency: IFAD

International Fund for Agricultural Development

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1. History of IFAD 2. Goal and Operation Goal Objectives Operation

3. IFAD governance IFAD Governance Executive Board Other internal organs IFAD's core values Anticorruption policy

4.Statistics of achievement and specific project 5.IFAD in Cambodia

1.History 





IFAD is an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating poverty and hunger in rural areas of developing countries. the result of World Food Conference in Rome 1974,in 1977 FAD was created in response to the droughts and food crisis in Africa and Asia in the early 1970s. The Fund started operations in 1978. IFAD is a unique partnership of members from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), other developing countries and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

1.History 



Firstly IFAD support rural finance by subsidies loaning but the political and economical environment make IFAD programs fail to cover cost. therefore, Instead it has shifted its support to rural finance systems development, institutional diversity and sustainable access of the rural poor to financial services.

2. Goal, Objective and Operation 



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Goal: IFAD's goal is to empower poor rural women and men in developing countries to achieve higher incomes and improved food security. Objectives: IFAD will ensure that poor rural people have better access to, and the skills and organization they need to take advantage of: Natural resources Improved agricultural technologies financial services Transparent and competitive markets for input and output Opportunities for rural off-farm employment and enterprise development Local and national policy and programming processes

2.Goal, Objectives, Operation 





Operations: reduce poverty and improve quality of lives in rural and remote area. IFAD designed and implement project and support programs in remote area target the poorest of rural people. To build broad local ownership of the programs it sponsors, IFAD works in partnership with others ( borrowing-country governments, poor rural people and their organizations, and other donor agencies.)

2.Goal, Objectives, Operation  o o o o o o o o o

IFAD provide loan and grant in 9 majors areas: agricultural development financial services rural infrastructure livestock fisheries capacity-and institution-building storage/food-processing/marketing research/extension/training small and medium scale enterprise development

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3. IFAD Governance :Governing Council The Governing Council of IFAD is the Fund's principle Governing Body having full decision-making powers.  All powers of the Fund are vested in the Governing Council which takes decisions on such matters as o approval of new membership; o appointment of the President of IFAD; o matters pertaining to the permanent seat of the Fund; o approval of the administrative budget and adoption of broad policies, criteria and regulations.  The current president of IFAD is Mr. Kanayo Nwanze, who was elected for a four-year term in 2009. 

3. IFAD Governance :Governing Council



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Membership in IFAD is open to any State that is a member of the United Nations, any of its specialized agencies or the International Atomic Energy Agency. The Fund's 165 Member States are classified as follows: List A (primarily OECD members); List B (primarily OPEC members); List C (developing countries). List C is further divided into sub-list C1 (countries in Africa); sub-list C2 (countries in Europe, Asia and the Pacific); and sub-list C3 (countries in Latin America and the Caribbean).



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3.IFAD Governance :Executive Board

The Executive Board is the Fund's second main Governing Body, consisting of 18 elected Members and 18 Alternate Members. . The Executive Board is responsible for: overseeing the general operations of IFAD approving its programs of work and grants to adopt/recommend action, the annual administrative budget; applications for membership and staffing within the Fund. Membership on the Executive Board is determined by the Governing Council and is presently distributed as follows: List A: eight Members and eight Alternate Members; List B: four Members and four Alternate Members; and List C: six Members and six Alternate Members; two each in the three regional subdivisions of List C Member States.

3. Governance: Internal organ 













The Office of the President and the Vice-President (OPV) is composed of the President, the Vice-President, their respective front offices, Offices of Internal Audit, Office of the General Counsel Office of Audit and Oversight (OA) is an independent appraisal function established within IFAD to assist management in the effective discharge of its responsibilities to establish and maintain sound internal controls. The Office of the General Counsel (OL) provides substantive legal advice to IFAD’s secretariat and Governing Bodies on all legal aspects of IFAD’s operations and administration. The External Affairs Department’s overall goal is increased political and financial support for IFAD. The Program Management Department (PMD) is responsible for the overall lending program of the Fund The Office of Evaluation (OE) is responsible for evaluating IFAD’s operations and policies. OE is independent and it reports directly to the Executive Board. Department of Finance and Administration has role of do financial reports, fund distribution for loan and grants, Planning and budgeting, investing, admistrative work, human resource and IT management.









4. IFAD Core Values

Focus on results: We strive to achieve excellent results. We accept personal responsibility and accountability for our actions and results. We recognize achievement and reward high performance. Integrity:We are driven by our commitment to enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty, and not by personal gain or alliances with vested interests. Professionalism:We exercise high levels of professionalism in our work and reward merit. We use the most appropriate skills and competencies, continually seeking opportunities to improve through innovative approaches. Respect :We treat our staff, partners, donors and poor rural people with respect and sensitivity. We value diversity and draw upon the different strengths, cultures, ideas, experience and talents of people

5. IFAD Anti corruption Policies 



. ‘Zero tolerance’ means that IFAD will pursue all allegations falling under the scope of this policy and that appropriate sanctions will be applied where the allegations are substantiated. The Fund shall apply a zero-tolerance policy where it has determined through an investigative process that its staff, consultants or individuals acting as representatives of the Fund have engaged in fraudulent, corrupt, collusive or coercive practices.

6. IFAD Achievement

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have provided US$11.2 billion in loans and grants. Since 2002 the investment programme has been growing at an average of nearly10%/year. Development aid to agriculture US$5 billion in 2007. IFAD supports over 200 ongoing programs and projects with a total IFAD investment of US$3.4 billion (2007) help 21 million active borrowers from IFAD-assisted microfinance institutions (2008)

6.IFAD Achievement 







In 2007 IFAD has worked with partners to empower poor rural women and men to improve their food security and increase their incomes. is among the top three multilateral institutions working in agriculture in Africa; in 2008, almost 50% of the financing With co-financing from partners, the total investment is US$28 billion. has reached about 340 million people through the initiatives it supports

7. IFAD in Cambodia IFAD has operated and support projects in Cambodia Since 1996  IFAD’s country program has two main objectives: -improving poor rural people’s livelihoods in a sustainable manner through community empowerment and through improving productivity and access to assets, productive resources, rural services, rural infrastructure and markets -promoting decentralization and deconcentration of local governance for pro-poor agricultural and rural development 

• Agricultural Productivity Improvement Project(423-KH) • Agricultural Development Support to Seila (513-KH) • Community Based Reduction Project (551KH)

• Rural livelihoods improvement project in Kratie, Preah Vihear and Ratanakiri Provinces

• Rural Poverty Reduction Project in Prey Veng and Svay Rieng (623 KH)

7. IFAD in Cambodia 

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As of 1 September 2007, IFAD has provided the equivalent of US$48.59 million for five projects in Cambodia, of which two have closed and three are ongoing Agriculture Productivity Improvement Project (closed in 2006): a sustainable national system established for providing village animal health services through private village animal health workers (VAHWs) Agricultural Development Support to Seila (closed in 2006): (i) increased food and income security of 64,500 poor households in about 1,000 villages, 217 communes and 34 districts in four provinces

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Community-Based Rural Development Project in Kompong Thom and Kampot (ongoing) as of the end of 2006: (i) 164,400 households assisted in 795 villages, 127 communes and 15 districts in two provinces Rural Poverty Reduction Project in Prey Veng and Svay Rieng (ongoing) as of the end of 2006: (i) 54,900 people from 25,000 households assisted in 1,827 villages and 148 communes in two provinces, with 1,000 poor farmers’ groups and community organizations established and trained The recently approved Rural Livelihoods Improvement Project (RULIP) in Kratie, Preah Vihear and Ratanakiri will target 22,600 households in 16 project districts in three provinces, with an additional 11,300 households expected to be indirect beneficiaries.

Referrence  





www.ifad.org Kingdom of Cambodia Country strategic opportunities programme (Executive Board — Ninety-second Session Rome, 11-13 December 2007 For: Review) http://www.ifad.org/gbdocs/eb/67/e/EB-2007-92-R-13-REV-1.pdf

REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF THE PRESIDENT TO THE EXECUTIVE BOARD ON A PROPOSED LOAN TO THE KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA FOR THE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT PROJECT TO SEILA

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