South-south Cooperation in IFAD’s Operating Model
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Presented by: Thomas Elhaut, Director, Asia and Pacific Region
Based on corporate review done by Thomas Elhaut and Nicoló Berghinz, SSC Specialist
15 September 2010
Flow of presentation
I.
Background
II. Illustration of IFAD’s experience
III. Lessons learnt
IV. Ways forward
I. Background: definition and value added
Definition
► Long history: Bandung, 1955
► SSC is intensifying and diversifying
► IFAD’s working definition of SSC:
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two-way process
fluid and direct interchange
ideas, technologies and goods
between people, directly
agricultural (rural) productivity and profitability
within and across regions
leading to change, action on the ground
with win-win-win opportunities
► Consistent with IFAD’s policies
Value added of SSC
► Scouting for rural innovations
► Replication
► Enhance IFAD’s:
 relevance: appropriate knowledge
 effectiveness: probability of reaching
development objectives
 efficiency: reduced transaction costs, reduced
risks
► Sustainability
► Earlier and predictable upscaling
SSC concretises the KM agenda
► Demand- driven: south-south partnerships
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sustainable (production and communication) technology
profitable rural enterprise models
inclusive institutions and pro-poor policies
enabling approaches for rural poverty reduction
► IFAD as facilitator: the triangular dimension
 corporate strategy objectives: areas of comparative
advantage
 increasingly: agricultural (rural) productivity, profitability
II. IFAD’s Experience
Typology of engagement
►Dimension of IFAD’s
operating model: one of
IFAD’s operating modalities
►Special purpose activities
linked to IFAD investment
programmes
Some examples: 13 specific activities
Project
Nature
of activity
Date
IFAD's
contribution
(in USD)
Status
ICT Africa-Latin America
grant funded
2005
150 000
Completed
Palenque Learning Route
grant funded
2006
60 000
Completed
Pro-poor policy with FAO
grant funded
2007
1 500 000
Ongoing
Competitiveness Greater Mekong Sub-region
grant funded
2007
609 000
Ongoing
Learning Route Ecuador – Peru, market access
grant funded
2007
900 000
Completed
Cambodia – China
in project
2008
200 000
Completed
Cooperation with farmers’ organizations
grant funded
2008
1 420 000
Ongoing
First Asia Regional Gathering Pastoral Women
grant funded
2009
200 000
Ongoing
Terra Madre India and Brazil
grant funded
2009
200 000
Ongoing
New Delhi Conference
grant funded
2010
200 000
Completed
Brazil-Africa Agricultural Innovation Marketplace
grant funded
2010
500 000
Ongoing
Indigenous Partnerships
grant funded
2010
100 000
being processed
Promoting SSC with China, knowledge sharing
grant funded
2010
200 000
being processed
New Delhi Conference on Rural Transformation
1) India, Brazil, China, South Africa
2) Policy focus:
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inclusive and sustainable rural development
effective governance
efficiency and effectiveness of public policy and programmes
3) Approach:
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reinforcement of PPP (public, private, people/partnership)
gender issues
development of small scale producers
land reforms
financial services
ICT enhancement
efficient resource allocation
4) to be opened up to other developing countries
5) IFAD: 200 000 $; technical inputs in conference;
support to follow-up (South Africa)
Enhancing Agricultural Competitiveness
in the Greater Mekong Subregion
1) Cambodia, China (Yunnan), Laos, Myanmar,
Thailand and Vietnam
2) Participants
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policy makers
chambers of commerce
farmers and their organisations
technical experts
the other triangle
3) Content
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new agricultural technologies
commodity chains
expanded trade
4) IFAD: 609 000 $, CPM for Laos and Vietnam ensures
link to ongoing projects (supervision next month)
Consortium for Unfavourable Rice Environments
(CURE) with IRRI (CGIAR)
1) 10 South and Southeast Asian countries
2) NARES, IRRI researchers, farmers and
extension workers
3) diverse rice ecosystems
4) on-site farmer-participatory research
5) multidisciplinary approach for technology
generation, validation, and dissemination
6) broad-based capacity building
7) IFAD: supervision, link to ongoing projects
in Laos and Bangladesh
Africa-Brazil Agricultural Innovation Marketplace
1) Innovative technologies for smallholders (women)
in Africa
2) Participants:
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policymakers
scientists and experts
NGOs, African organizations, foundations
universities
private sector
3) Components:
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policy dialogue
Marketplace
Africa-Brazil projects
4) IFAD: USD 500 000
China-Asia-Africa SSC Seminar
1) Madagascar, Rwanda,
Bangladesh and Vietnam
2) Content:
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the climate change
food quality and safety
rural technologies
community participation
multi-sectoral and coordinated investments
managed approach to poverty reduction policy
planning
Regional Gathering of Pastoralist Women
1) Pastoralist women
2) In Asia, Near and Middle East
3) Components
 knowledge-sharing
 capacity building
 regional platform
4) women influence local and national policies
5) IFAD: 200 000 $; technical support of the IFAD
livestock advisor, link to ongoing projects
RUTAs: the learning routes in LAC
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A systematised process: PROCASUR
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farmers and their associations, rural organizations, technicians
and private sector representatives
learning in the field
organized thematically around good practices in rural
development
experiences of rural institutions, communities and families
Innovation Plan: inclusive strategy for the community as a whole
supports for subsequent on-the-ground replication and
implementation
on-line platforms to serve rural development projects and their
beneficiaries
IFAD: CPM for Colombia and Peru is part of the
facilitation mechanism and ensures link to ongoing
projects
Learning Routes in LAC and beyond
(e.g. Rwanda, Malawi)
1) Examples of learning routes:
 Sharing knowledge about market access in Ecuador
and Peru
 Successful Colombian Rural Micro-enterprises
 Improving the quality of life for the community of
Palenque
 Talented Rural Youth: learning from their experiences
in accessing land and financial and business services
2) IFAD: replicating the learning route
approach in Asia (November, in China)
III. Lessons learnt
elect true champions as hosts
manage knowledge content: driven by
guests’ demand with flexibility
secure financing to sustain the process
assure evidence-based KM (results)
institutions matter:
 select institution that has SSC know-how
 build-in sustainability in the programme
IV. Ways Forward
The future of SSC
►Maintain: current diversity, flexibility,
innovation, decentralisation
►Add: corporate strategic dimension
 a corporate window: policy and strategy in nature,
to support and enhance current SSC approach
 monitor the financing of SSC
 systematise knowledge management
Increased coordination and cross-fertilisation
as part of KM strategy
► Corporate coordination function in the
office of the CDS
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accelerate and upscale SSC
stronger direction, strategic selectivity
KM and results focus
stronger policy impact (advocacy)
Thank you for your attention