Transcript Why IFAD’s interested in Multiples Uses Services

Why IFAD’s interested in Multiple Uses
Services (WATSAN sector) ?
Delft, The Netherlands.
February 12th, 2007
Laurent Stravato
Description of IFAD
• The International Fund for Agricultural
Development is a specialized UN Agency and an
International Financial Institution (IFI).
• Methodology/Financing mechanisms: Through
loans and grants, IFAD works with governments
from Developing countries (fragile or not)
• Annual portfolio in 2007:
650 M$ in Loans to Governments,50 M$ in grants.
• Total 9 Billion US $, 707 programmes since
1977.
IFAD mandate
Mandate:
• Enabling the rural poor to overcome their
poverty.
Three strategic objectives are:
• Strengthen the capacity of the rural poor and
their organizations
• Improve equitable access to productive natural
resources and technologies
• Increase access by poor to financial services
and markets
IFAD project typical example
Name of the project
Country
Total
Project
cost
US$(000)
Initiative de
développement et
réhabilitation rurale
et agricole
Niger
33860
Rural finance
intermediation
programme (RUFIP)
Ethiopia
Programme de
réhabilitation de
l'agriculture province
orient
RD
Congo
87833
37560
IFAD
loans/grants
US$(000)
Government
US$(000)
Others
US$(000)
BSF.JP
US$(000)
15750
4150
OPEC:6360
WFP:2100
5500
4460
AFDB:
37501
GEF: 20235
3420
Italian sup.
Funds:
200
25687,1
26080
6250
Financial
partnerships
• IFAD and Belgium Survival Funds (BSF) are
working together since 1984.
• BSF has increased the value of IFAD’s
investment by addressing the most basic needs
of poor people: family nutrition and health
(280M$).
• Financial partnership can create win-win
situation where integrated approaches to
community development provide synergistic
effects.
IFAD-BSF Partnership in Africa
IFAD’s step for project
development
STEP 1: COSOP
(Formal agreement)
STEP 3: MISSION FORMULATION
- Development of Terms of References
- Setting up a Team of experts (7 to 15 National and International consultant)
STEP 4 and 5: DIAGNOSTIC STUDIES
STEP 4: FORMULATION
Technical review with emphasis on situation assessment and
conceptual development:
- Institutions/Political
- Infrastructure
STEP 6: APPRAISAL
-Action plan design
STEP 7: Draft La Negotiated
EXECUTIVE BOARD PROPOSAL
MANAGEMENT
STEP 2:
INCEPTION MEMO
Technical division(PT)
Technical division
Water and rural
infrastructure
desk
Gender
Environment
and
management
Agriculture
Rural
finance
Rural
entreprise
Institutional framework
Support to the Management (CPM)
Cooperation IFAD-Government-Civil society
The Water and Rural
Infrastructure desk
• IFAD is currently defining its operational strategy
on Water for Rural Livelihoods.
• Focus on poor rural peoples’ demand and
institutions for water to serve their food, feed,
and fibre production – including livestock, fully
acknowledges their interaction with the
environmental use of water, and hinges on basic
needs and rights to water for domestic purposes,
nutrition and health (Pro-poor Rural Water and
Health Sanitation/ppRWHS).
• Bring closer collaboration between the Water
for Food and WASH
IFAD strategical interest in
Multiple Uses Services
Agriculture
Leisure
Environment
Sanitation
Industry
Domestic
Interrelation
Interrelation
Potential impacts of integrating Multiple
Uses Systems into IFAD’s funded project
Basic needs
Environmental
uses of
water
Multiple Uses Systems
Multi sectoral integration
Alleviate
poverty for PEOPLEthe gap
Bridging
between
Enabling environment
Institutional framework
Water for food
Implementation
and WATSAN
Management
Improve
people’s food
security
Responding to rural poor’s People
demand
Water for
other uses
Next step
IFAD has developed a short list of potential
partners which may be able to provide support
to such initiatives within IFAD framework.
• Financial
• Develop a fund focusing on MUS into IFAD
projects.
• Implementation
• Finding experts and practicioners supporting
IFAD to implement MUS.
Potential implementing partners
Area of intervention
Implementing partners
Worldwide
IWMI
Worldwide
IRC
Africa
Pump Aid
Eau Vive
Worldwide
Plan International
Worldwide
CIRAD
Worldwide
ODI
Potential financial partners
Area of intervention
Interested financial
partners
Worldwide
Challenge Food programme
Worldwide
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Worldwide
World Bank
Worldwide
Gates Foundation
Worldwide
US Aid
Questions on MUS
• Implementation and rural infrastructure.
• Context specificity :
(countries in transition, capacity of local
government ?)
• Multi-sectoral approach (perception of
national government)
Dank Wel!
Thanks!
Merci!