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  Judgment 2102 - ILO Administrative Tribunal
IFAD held an internal investigation which, it says, revealed that three external consultants hired by the complainant made over to him sums of money which were then transferred to personal bank accounts under his and his wife's names in Jersey and Guernsey (United Kingdom).
The reason why IFAD filed a civil suit in England to obtain restitution of monies was that civil action was precluded in Italy by the complainant's acceptance of the reduced sentence which put an end to the proceedings there.
IFAD does not have immunity from the execution of judgments in England, so there is no substance to the complainant's argument that he fell foul of an international organisation, which is "untouchable".
www.ilo.org /public/english/tribunal/fulltext/2102.htm   (3752 words)

  
 Visit of Fawzi H Al-Sultan, IFAD, President
She thanked IFAD for its support and contribution to the formulation of the UNDAF-India document and invited the Fund to join the UNDAF Retreat to be held on 23-24 January 2001.
IFAD with its strong focus on women and governance was a natural partner in view of the UNDAF goals set by the Government for the UN Family, promoting gender equality and strengthening decentralisation.
Al-Sultan also briefed the group on the IFAD Report to be launched shortly — The Rural Poverty Report — with a view to focus the attention of donors on the rural poor whose main means of livelihood was from the agriculture sector.
www.un.org.in /fawzi-ifad.htm   (642 words)

  
 Saudi Aramco World : Farming in the Arab East: A view from Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
IFAD will concentrate on activities that are directed to solving the critical problems or constraints that impede rural development.
IFAD was born in the questioning seventies, and reflects a new approach to problems of food production and distribution.
Al-Sudeary: IFAD is a new kind of institution in the United Nations system and the governing bodies which will supervise its operations represent an innovative formula bringing together the interests of both developed and developing countries.
www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197803/farming.in.the.arab.east-a.view.from.rome.htm   (1116 words)

  
 International Fund for Agricultural Development
One of the most important insights emerging from the Conference was that the causes of food insecurity and famine were not so much failures in food production, but structural problems relating to poverty and to the fact that the majority of the developing world’s poor populations were concentrated in rural areas.
All IFAD’s strategic choices (as reflected in regional, country and thematic strategies; loan and grant activities; involvement in poverty reduction strategy papers; policy dialogue; and choice of development partners) will be made with these principles in mind.
By the term “intern,” IFAD intends university students of less than 30 years of age who are offered the opportunity to acquire knowledge of a “real work” environment to the mutual benefit of both the Organization and the intern.
www.csupomona.edu /~gssilliman/internships/IFAD.htm   (1060 words)

  
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Addressing the Group of 77, IFAD President Fawzi H. Al-Sultan expressed the hope that the G-77 will work to ensure that this recognition at the international level is translated into meaningful new resources to end hunger and poverty.
IFAD was also the first international institution to launch, in 1987, a Special Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa.
IFAD is unusual in that it is a real partnership between North and South, with developing nations contributing about a quarter of the funding.
www.g77.org /Journal/2-98/9.htm   (499 words)

  
 VETS-L 15 IFAD Paper
IFAD considers the main objective of privatizing veterinary services (Box 1: The case for SSA) to be the provision of better but sustainable services at affordable prices to the individual livestock producer and, at the same time, the reduction of the budgetary burden on the national governments.
IFAD was not alone in this task and has worked closely with other donors (as initiator or co-financier) in a variety of activities which, upon design, tended to respond to the special circumstances of each country.
In most cases IFAD, and other donors, provided the financial resources but success, where achieved, was only where the political support was maintained by the government and where the community needs and involvement was assured during the project design and implementation process.
www.fao.org /AG/Aga/Agah/Vets-l/A15.HTM   (3973 words)

  
 IFAD - Project Cycle
During this phase, IFAD prepares a feasible, sustainable project proposal with the participation of a range of stakeholders, most importantly potential beneficiaries and governments.
Loan negotiations are undertaken between IFAD and the borrower, using the project appraisal as the basis for the financing (i.e.
It focuses on rural poverty and on IFAD’s strategic role in the country, and examines internal and external policy issues of major relevance to this context.
www.freewebs.com /globalsourcing/ifad_proj_cycle.htm   (504 words)

  
 IAPSO - Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Throughout the twenty years of its operations, IFAD has developed specific approaches to poverty eradication enunciated on the capacity of its rural clients to be the agents of change by assigning to them the dual role of participants and beneficiaries.
IFAD's investments aim at enabling the poor to have access to the means of production, land and water, technical inputs, training and extension, markets, adaptive research for sustaining the resource base, credit and community services.
All purchasing for projects financed through IFAD loans is the responsibility of the borrowing government either directly or through the cooperating institutions that are project executing agents.
www.iapso.org /supplying/AgencyInfo.asp?AgencyID=35   (490 words)

  
 International Fund for Agricultural Development   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Loan repayment levels in IFAD projects by poor borrowers, especially women, often exceed 90 per cent.
She is a member of one the 48000 self-help groups established by IFAD financed "P4K" Income Generating Project for Marginal Farmers and Landless.
IFAD's mission has been to bring to the rural poor the tools to help them work their way out of poverty and hunger.
www.un.org /Pubs/ourlives/ifad.htm   (515 words)

  
 Institut für angewandte Demographie-IFAD2
The Institute for Applied Demography, Berlin-Brandenburg, plc (IFAD) is a non-profit research institution with longstanding experiences in the empirical and theoretical social research.
The IFAD staff is composed of scientists acting in different fields of social research.
IFAD is editing regularly an own series - the IFAD-Edition in which research papers of the Institute are published.
www.b.shuttle.de /ifad/ifad2_eng.htm   (213 words)

  
 Ministers Discuss Rural Poverty At IFAD Meeting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
IFAD President Lennart Bage and Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri were slated to inaugurate the conference, attended by ministers and other government representatives as well as delegates from international organizations, multilateral and bilateral donors, regional development and research institutions, nongovernmental organizations and civil society.
It added that the problem is exacerbated by natural resource problems related to soil fertility, water supply and climatic events and by institutional limits such as unequal land distribution, poor infrastructure management, gender imbalance and a dearth of grassroots groups.
IFAD said Bage would call on the region's countries to step up investment in the rural sector in order to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015.
www.unwire.org /UNWire/20020508/26229_story.asp   (233 words)

  
 Congressional Hunger Center - International Fellows Program
IFAD works towards enabling the rural poor to overcome their poverty - as perceived by the poor themselves - by fostering social development, gender equity, income generation, improved nutritional status, environmental sustainability and good governance.
IFAD concentrates its investments, research and knowledge management efforts, policy dialogue and advocacy on the attainment of three strategic objectives: 1) Strengthening the capacity of the rural poor and their organizations; 2) Improving equitable access to productive natural resources and technology; and 3) Increasing access to financial services and markets.
To utilize IFAD's base of contacts among American NGOs, academia, and private sector groups as a basis for establishing a self-sustaining U.S. Committee for IFAD with 501(c)3 status and a large, diverse membership base that can serve as a replicable model for IFAD outreach in other countries.
www.hungercenter.org /international/app_workplans_IFAD.htm   (929 words)

  
 Human Development and Food Security
Co-Author, with Alain Onibon, of the IFAD “Practitioner’s Guide for Institutional Analysis in Rural Development Programmes” (to be validated at an international workshop in Rome scheduled for 22-23 Sept. 2004).
March 2003: IFAD Consultant on an appraisal mission to Rwanda as local institutions specialist (organisations professionnelles) for the Rural Small and Microenterprise Project, Phase II (PPPMER II/IFAD Loan 613-RW) and on the drafting of the PPPMER 2 Strategic Project Brief.
The objective of that undertaking was, in sum, to assess progress made so far with respect to the programme’s community development objectives and to suggest ways to improve local-level targetting mechanisms of the resource-poor as well as the sustainability of the local institutions in charge of planting material multiplication.
host.uniroma3.it /master/humandevelopment/documenti/docenti/messer.htm   (1807 words)

  
 The Middle East: New broom at IFAD. (International Fund for Agricultural Development)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Fawzi al-sultan of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) believes that the organization will solve the funding problems being experienced by agricultural countries.
IFAD was created in 1977 to provide funding to farm projects in the third world countries.
Its executive members are searching for ways to assure IFAD's existence in the future.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:15409669&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (160 words)

  
 IFAD funds food and water project in the eastern Kassala State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
IFAD said between 350,000 and 480,000 poor people, especially women, living in the Gash area would benefit from the project through improvement and sustainability of food security and higher income levels.
IFAD, a specialised agency of the UN that combats rural poverty, said the project would devolve land and water management to users’ groups, stress the importance of equity, transparency and accountability, and help community groups learn to manage local resources better.
IFAD will work closely with the government to address the structural causes of rural poverty and to strengthen peace initiatives that will contribute to local development," it said.
www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=39430   (505 words)

  
 UNIS/Press Release
The issue of indigenous populations living lives of hardship and misery in marginal areas; women's rights to land and control of assets and reforming property and tenurial rights of marginalized minorities will be on top of the agenda.
Since 1978 IFAD has financed 603 projects in 115 recipient countries and in the West Bank and Gaza for a total commitment of approximately USD 7.3 billion in loans and grants.
IFAD makes the greater part of its resources available to low income countries on very favourable terms.
www.unescap.org /unis/press/2002/sep/n_12_02.htm   (359 words)

  
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IFAD believes the MDGs cannot be achieved unless investment is channelled into supporting people in rural communities to direct, manage and control their own circumstances.
IFAD Strategic Framework for 2002-2006 IFAD’s activities are guided by the Strategic Framework for IFAD 2002-2006: Enabling the Rural Poor to Overcome Their Poverty.
As reflected in the strategic framework, IFAD is committed to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, in particular the target to halve the proportion of hungry and extremely poor people by 2015.
www.runiceurope.org /italian/uninitaly/IFAD_GC_bckgENG.doc   (2258 words)

  
 Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development: IFAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Countries not original members of IFAD may join after approval of their membership by the Governing Council and accession to the IFAD agreement.
The highest directing body of IFAD is the Governing Council, where all the member States are represented by a Governor and an Alternate Governor.
The secretariat is headed by the President of IFAD and is responsible for the management of the Fund.
www.greenyearbook.org /igo/ifad.htm   (470 words)

  
 Message from President of IFAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
IFAD is an International Financial Institution with an exclusive focus on poverty.
In fact, IFAD is one of the major actors in the global effort to overcome poverty and improve the living standards of the rural poor in the G-77 countries.
IFAD stands fully ready and committed to joining hands with the Member States of the Group of 77 to work together to bring about a World free of poverty and hunger.
www.g77.org /news/press_communiques/ifad.htm   (596 words)

  
 IASC - IFAD International Forum for Accountancy Development
The International Forum on Accountancy Development ("IFAD") was created as a working group between the Basel Committee, the International Federation of Accountants, IOSCO, the large Accounting Firms, OECD, UNCTAD, and the World Bank and regional development banks, which flowed from the East Asian crisis.
IFAD completed its work with the publication of GAAP Convergence 2002.
As noted in IFAD's vision statement, it is IFAD's view that the national accounting standards of most countries should be raised with IAS as the benchmark or minimum standards, but in an orderly way that ensures development of a sufficient infrastructure to effectively adopt IAS.
www.iasplus.com /resource/ifad.htm   (1983 words)

  
 Inter Press Service News Agency
On this basis, IFAD has become even less relevant to our agenda than it was a year ago,'‘ he told the committee.
It is a claim that rankled with IFAD, which made a submission to the parliamentary committee defending itself..
IFAD proved that small-scale credit could be successfully and sustainable provided to groups who were previously considered un-creditworthy and has accumulated wealth experience in how to do this,'‘ they submitted to the committee.
www.ipsnews.net /africa/sendnews.asp?idnews=22756   (782 words)

  
 IFAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
On average IFAD has financed 45% of total project cost, the remaining 55% being met by the Government as local expenses.
he IFAD programme has increasingly targeted the rural poor comprising marginal and small farmers, the landless, traditional occupational groups and women, for the delivery of services which include credit, irrigation equipment and other farm inputs, adaptive research and extension, and rural infrastructure to improve accessibility to inputs and product markets.
FAD has effectively contributed to poverty alleviation through increasing the access of smaller farmers to improved technology, capital and financial services; increasing the participation of beneficiaries, including women, in the project implementation process; promoting the diversification of income-generation activities; and supporting entrepreneurship development of the rural poor.
www.un-bd.org /UN/ifad.html   (288 words)

  
 Advocacy Report on IFAD delegation to El Salvador
The IFAD proposal was already approved by the Government of El Salvador (GOES), and was pending final approval by the General Assembly.
IFAD www.ifad.org gave a presentation of their project called Programa de Reconstrucción y Modernización Rural – Program for Rural Reconstruction and Modernization.
IFAD is proposing an investment fund of $20 million to be supplemented by $4.5 million from the Government of El Salvador (GOES) and $6.0 million from beneficiaries (possibly through remittances).
www.share-elsalvador.org /delegations/fida_delegatiion.htm   (1055 words)

  
 IDB - News - IDB’S MIF AND IFAD LAUNCH PROGRAM TO PROMOTE REMITTANCES-BASED RURAL SAVINGS AND INVESTMENTS IN LATIN ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
MIF and IFAD do not want to discourage the use of remittances for consumption but rather generate more opportunities for savings, development potential and investments in rural areas, where poverty tends to concentrate.
Building on IFAD’s experience in small-scale projects linking migrants from rural areas and their communities of origin, the joint program will work with expatriate groups known as “hometown associations” to encourage them to play a leading role in local development by providing access to investment resources, advanced technologies and new markets in their host countries.
IFAD is a Rome-based specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to combating rural poverty in the most disadvantaged regions of the world.
www.iadb.org /NEWS/DISPLAY/PRView.cfm?PR_Num=83_04&Language=English   (692 words)

  
 The Namibian | World News | World behind on goal to halve poverty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
IFAD was expected to hand out less than US$400 million in loans and grants for rural development projects this year, down from US$450-500 million last year, she said.
The organisation hopes that when it seeks to replenish funds from international donor states next year, they will have woken up to the appalling plight of the rural poor, she added.
IFAD said that the use of biotechnology in agriculture presented a vital opportunity to reduce poverty."
www.namibian.com.na /2001/February/world/01D805A4E9.html   (625 words)

  
 Embassy of Kenya in Italy - KENYA AT FAO, IFAD & WFP
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) was established in 1977 to assist developing countries to combat rural poverty by mobilizing additional resources for programmes designed specifically to promote the economic advancement of the rural poor, mainly by improving the productivity of on and off-farm activities.
IFAD is closely monitoring policy developments in the financial sub-sector as well as development in the non-bank rural finance sub-sector, in order to identify those areas, which might be viably supported to ensure access by the rural poor to financial services.
Schedule of proposed Conferences, Session and Training Activities planned by IFAD is prepared to assist its Members in planning their attendance at meetings and should be regarded as an information document.
www.embassyofkenya.it /article-print-9.html   (1720 words)

  
 International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
IFAD has 16 years of experience in the field which we would like to share with you and hope to make new contacts at the same time.
IFAD was established in 1977 following a decision by the 1974 World Food Conference as a UN specialized agency with a single mandate, unique among international financial institutions: to combat hunger and rural poverty in the low-income countries.
One of the characteristics of IFAD's approach is involving the beneficiaries in the poorest rural community in the planning and implementation of its projects.
www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Org_Institutes/International_Fund_15624.html   (1216 words)

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