Southsouth Cooperation in IFAD’s Operating Model
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15 September 2010
Presented by: Thomas Elhaut, Director, Asia and Pacific Region
Based on corporate review done by Thomas Elhaut and Nicoló Berghinz, SSC Specialist

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: definition and value added

► Long history: Bandung, 1955
► SSC is intensifying and diversifying
► IFAD’s working definition of SSC:
 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

► 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

► Demand- driven: south-south partnerships
 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

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: 13 specific activities
Project Nature of activity
Date
ICT Africa-Latin America
Palenque Learning Route
Pro-poor policy with FAO
Competitiveness Greater Mekong Sub-region
Learning Route Ecuador
– Peru, market access
Cambodia – China
Cooperation with farmers’ organizations grant funded 2005 grant funded 2006 grant funded grant funded grant funded in project
2007
2007
2007
2008
First Asia Regional Gathering Pastoral Women
Terra Madre India and Brazil grant funded 2008 grant funded grant funded
2009
2009
New Delhi Conference grant funded 2010
Brazil-Africa Agricultural Innovation Marketplace grant funded 2010
Indigenous Partnerships
Promoting SSC with China, knowledge sharing grant funded 2010 grant funded 2010
IFAD's contribution
(in USD)
150 000
60 000
1 500 000
609 000
900 000
200 000
1 420 000
200 000
200 000
Status
Completed
Completed
Ongoing
Ongoing
Completed
Completed
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing
200 000
500 000
Completed
Ongoing
100 000 being processed
200 000 being processed

New Delhi Conference on Rural Transformation
1) India, Brazil, China, South Africa
2) Policy focus:
 inclusive and sustainable rural development
 effective governance
 efficiency and effectiveness of public policy and programmes
3) Approach:
 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
 policy makers
 chambers of commerce
 farmers and their organisations
 technical experts the other triangle
3) Content
 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:
 policymakers
 scientists and experts
 NGOs, African organizations, foundations
 universities
 private sector
3) Components:
 policy dialogue
 Marketplace
 Africa-Brazil projects
4) IFAD: USD 500 000

1) Madagascar, Rwanda,
Bangladesh and Vietnam
2) Content:
 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

 A systematised process: PROCASUR
 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)

 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

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 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
► Core responsibilities:
► accelerate and upscale SSC
► stronger direction, strategic selectivity
► KM and results focus
► stronger policy impact (advocacy)