[Tech-forum_FIDAFRIQUE] IFAD: November 2006 releases

[Roxanna Samii <r.samii@IFAD.ORG>]

Dear colleagues,

Good morning. Below please find the most recent IFAD’s releases and news. Wishing you all the best. Regards Roxy

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O P I N I O N: The UN system: delivering as one by Lennart BÃge published in Development Today journal, Issue No. 18/06, November 20, 2006

Government of Armenia presents IFAD with a gold medal

Rural Poverty Portal new country pages:

          Angola

          Cameroon

          MoroccoÂ

 

New publication:

IFAD targeting policy: Reaching the rural poor

The purpose of the policy is to: (a) provide a clear definition of IFAD’s target group and establish a shared conceptual understanding of targeting; (b) outline the general principles that will guide IFAD in identifying and reaching the target group, and the methods and means that it will use to this end; and (c) provide an overview of how targeting will be addressed in the context of IFAD’s operational instruments.

English | French | Spanish

 

New IFAD videos:

• Banking on remittances
• Villages on the Frontline: Jordan

 

Video submitted by IFAD-funded Lower Ususthu Smallholder Irrigation Project (LUSIP) in the south-eastern Lowveld of Swaziland.

 

New evaluations:

          China

Southwest Anhui Integrated Agricultural Project
Executive Summary | Agreement at Completion Point | Full document (PDF version)

          Guinea
Fouta Djallon Agricultural Rehabilitation and Local Development Programme (PRAADEL)
Executive summary | (French version) | Agreement at completion point | (French version) | Full document

          India

North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project for Upland Areas
Executive Summary | Agreement at Completion Point | Full document (PDF version)

          Morocco

Tafilalet and Dades Rural Development Project (PDRT)
English: Executive summary |Agreement at completion point
French: Executive summary | Full document | | Agreement at completion point

 

New vacancies:

          Senior Technical Adviser - Technical Advisory Division (PT) Programme Management Department- deadline: 24 December 2006

• Editorial and Translation Assistant (English) - Office of the Secretary - External Affairs Department (EAD): deadline 19 December 2006

 

Check out the planned project activities sections for description of projects in the pipeline:

          Africa - Western and Central

          Africa - Eastern and Southern

          Asia and the Pacific

          Latin America and the Caribbean

          Near East and North Africa

 

 

New and recently updated country factsheets:

Factsheet	Country page available at the following url:
Angola	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/ago/index.htm
Burundi	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/bdi/index.htm
Cameroon | French	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/french/regions/africa/cmr/index.htm
China	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/asia/chn/index.htm
Eritrea	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/eri/index.htm
Ethiopia	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/eth/index.htm
Ghana	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/gha/index.htm
Kenya	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/ken/index.htm
Lesotho	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/lso/index.htm
Madagascar	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/french/regions/africa/mdg/index.htm
Malawi	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/mwi/index.htm
Mozambique	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/moz/index.htm
Nigeria	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/nga/index.htm
Rwanda	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/rwa/index.htm
Swaziland	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/swz/index.htm
Tanzania	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/tza/index.htm
Uganda	http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/uga/index.htm

 

More factsheets available at: http://www.ifad.org/pub/factsheet/index.htm

Electronic newsletter: Making a difference in Asia and the Pacific: Issue 13: November/December 2006 - PBAS: looking beyond the resource allocation system

Press releases

          22 November: New IFAD programme to boost farm production and build market links in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province

          13 November: IFAD, EC and CGAP launch new initiative to promote remittance services for poor rural people

          9 November: New campaign led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Yunus pledges to provide micro loans to millions of poor rural people
Arabic | English | French | Italian | Spanish

Check out IFAD’s coverage in the international media

 

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