IFAD Learning notes - rural poverty knowledge base
Lessons learned from experience, accumulated knowledge and current innovations.
Learning Notes are intended to serve as reminders of key issues and main tasks in the design and implementation of pro-poor investment projects in rural areas. They are based on lessons learned from experience, accumulated knowledge and current innovations. The first section identifies ‘Core issues’ to be considered. The second section indicates the ‘Key tasks for design and review’ to generate robust investment plans. The final section, ‘Sources of information and examples of good practice’, directs users to some relevant examples drawn from IFAD’s portfolio of loan and grant-financed projects, studies, and other sources of best practices and relevant information. The 16 current online learning notes are classified in 4 issues:
Human and social assets: gender, food security, health and nutrition, community development funds, project targeting, pro-poor institutional transformation for community-based development;
Developing productive assets and technology: technology change for livelihood development, rural technical support services, agricultural water infrastructure and management, environment and natural resource management, livestock and rangeland development;
Developing financial assets and markets: rural finance, micro and small enterprise (MSE) development;
Cross-cutting issues: project rationale and relevance, designing for implementation, sustainability, monitoring and evaluation.
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