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IFAD & IFPRI
Strategic Partnership to Develop Innovative Policies on Climate Change Mitigation and
Market Access
Objectives
• Strengthen capacity of country programme partners
• Evaluate options for improved access to market opportunities
• Mainstream solutions• national policies• investment programs
Target Groups and Benefits
Target Groups• Rural poor• Rural producers’ organizations• National policymakers and their advisors
Benefits• Identify solutions: policy and institutional• Pro-poor strategies
• environmental and production-related policies
IFAD Projects Likely to Benefit
• Country programs will build upon results • Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, and South
East Asia programmes will benefit
Why IFPRI?
• Research, capacity strengthening, and communications
• Global research programs on policies for adapting to global change
• Focus on the impacts of climate change, especially agriculture
• Substantial research on Payment for Environmental Services (PES) approaches
• Access of the rural poor to agricultural commodity markets
Why IFPRI?
• IFPRI researchers leading • 2009 World Development Report on “Managing
Competing Demands for Water and Land under Climate Change”
• CGIAR development of a Challenge Program on Climate Change
New IFPRI/IFAD interventions
Pro-poor interventions to link rural households to
markets for environmental services interventions & policies
Pro-poor interventions & policies to link small holders to dynamic
markets
Pro-poor interventions to link rural households to
markets for environmental services interventions &
policies
Pro-poor markets access interventions & policies
Contracting and other mechanisms to facilitate
access of the poor
Governance assessment methods
Impact evaluation methods
Scaling up methodology
(recommendation domains)
IFAD policy interventions available to
minimize market/
government failures?
Capacity building and Q&A system
NO YES
New tools proposed to implement interventions
Existing IFPRI/IFAD interventions
Components of the Program
• High-value commodity market-access activities• Climate change mitigation market access
activities• Program support functions
Participating Countries
• Countries will be selected by a consultative process between IFAD and IFPRI
• 4 focus countries will be selected• Interested CPMs will be invited to apply
Selection Criteria
• Interest in improving access to commodity markets
• Geographic distribution of countries• Extent of rural poverty• Prior work and presence of IFAD and IFPRI in
the country • Relevant on-going grants and loans under
implementation
Selection Criteria
• On-going projects in collaboration with farmers’ and grassroots’ organizations
• National policies relevant to the program• Supportive policy environment for innovation• Capacity to accept research recommendations• Strong donor groups• Ownership and engagement of CPMs
Expected Outputs
• Promoting access to high-value commodity markets
• Promoting access to climate change mitigation markets
• Capacity strengthening and knowledge management
Implementation
• Consultations to shape research agenda• Consolidation of agreements under MOU• Research institutions with ongoing field
programs may be brought into the program
Program Management
• Joint Steering Committee (JSC)• Program coordinators• Bi-annual progress review • Implementation of thematic activities• Facilitating activities at the country level
2009 Workplan
• Engagement and selection of project• Q&A Portal for policy research and
innovation• Network of policy advisors, researchers and
program implementers• Country-level policy innovation network
2009 Workplan
• Develop and foster policy communications• Partner with regional and global knowledge
sharing and learning systems• Implement focused capacity-strengthening
activities• Bi-annual workshops of progress
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