[Tech-forum_FIDAFRIQUE] IFAD November-December 2007 releases - Happy holidays and Happy Eid-Al-Adha

["Roxanna Samii" <r.samii@ifad.org>]

 

 

November - December 2007 recent releases

 

 

President's corner

·         Compensation for farmers’ carbon sequestration

·         Climate change: a growing challenge for development and poverty reduction

 

Rural Poverty Portal

New country pages

·         Guinea

·         Moldova

·         The Republic of Macedonia

 

New topic page

·         Climate change

 

IFAD's Action Plan

·         Final progress report on implementation of IFAD’s Action Plan for Improving its Development Effectiveness

 

Stories from the field

·         Nepal’s ‘poorest of the poor’ reap the benefits of innovative leasehold project

·         Small-scale farmers become entrepreneurs

·         Pioneering microcredit for women in remote Pakistan

·         Mali: Investing in the northern regions to support the peace process and improve poor people’s living conditions

·         Competitions show women that they are all winners

 

Operations

·         Portfolio Performance Report 2006/07

·        Planned project activities

·        Africa - Western and Central

·         Africa - Eastern and Southern

·         Asia and the Pacific

·         Latin America and the Caribbean

·         Near East and North Africa

 

 

Events

·         31st session of the Governing Council - 13-14 February 2008
Arabic | English | French | Spanish

·         92nd session of the Executive Board - 11-13 December 2007
Arabic | English | French | Spanish

·         50th session of the Evaluation Committee - 7 December 2007
English

 

 

Publications and electronic newsletters

·         Improving marketing strategies in Western and Central Africa

·         Initiative de développement agricole et rural pour le Sahel (SARDI)

·         Asia and the Pacific Occasional Paper – number 4: Supermarkets, smallholders and livelihood prospects in selected Asian countries

·         Gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment - “Looking for new directions” workshop: Final report

·         FIDAction: Issue number 8: December 2007 - English

·         Making a difference in Asia and the Pacific: Issue number 18: Forestry

·         Progress in Eastern and Southern Africa: Issue number 6

 

Evaluation

·         Project evaluation: Niger - Special Country Programme – Phase II
Executive summary: English | French
Agreement at completion point: English | French
Full document (French version)

·         Country programme evaluation: Mali
Country programme evaluation
Executive summary: English | French
Agreement at completion point: English | French
Full document (French version)

·         Insights: Delegation of authority is essential to a successful country presence | PDF version - Insight No.3: September 2007

·         Profiles: IFAD gets closer to the ground | PDF
- Issues #47 - November 2007 (Profile based on the: Corporate-level Evaluation of IFAD's Field Presence Pilot Programme) - Ensuring realistic design: learning from experiences in Niger | PDF

 

 

Media

·         19 December: IFAD-supported development project will help kick-start economic growth in Guinea-Bissau
English | French | Italian

·         18 December: US$30.30 million programme will help increase incomes of rural microentrepreneurs in Madagascar

·         14 December: IFAD’s Executive Board approves US$ 263 million in loans and grants to combat rural poverty in 16 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Near East
Arabic | English

·         27 November: IFAD and Spain sign partnership agreement to strengthen collaborative work in rural development
English | Spanish

·         22 November: IFAD supports US$46 million programme to boost microfinance in Pakistan
English | Italian

·         22 November: IFAD-supported project will help Bolivia’s camelid producers boost their incomes through new microenterprises
English | Italian | Spanish

·         08 November: IFAD and CPLP sign cooperation agreement to fight rural poverty in Portuguese-speaking developing countries
English | Italian | Portugese

·         05 November: IFAD to provide US$8.7 million to Lesotho for programme to give poor rural Basotho better access to financial services
English | Italian

·         01 November: IFAD steps up financial backing for tsunami-affected communities in India’s Tamil Nadu
English | Italian

 

Job opportunities

·         Head, English Section - P-4 - Language Services - Office of the Secretary (ES) External Affairs Department (EAD) - deadline: 9 January 2008

·         Associate Grants Officer - P2 - Office of the Controller (FC) - Finance and Administration Department - deadline: 3 January 2008