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IFAD & IFPRI

Strategic Partnership to Develop Innovative Policies on Climate Change Mitigation and

Market Access

Objectives

• Strengthen capacity of country programme partners

• Evaluate options for improved access to market opportunities

• Mainstream solutions• national policies• investment programs

Target Groups and Benefits

Target Groups• Rural poor• Rural producers’ organizations• National policymakers and their advisors

Benefits• Identify solutions: policy and institutional• Pro-poor strategies

• environmental and production-related policies

IFAD Projects Likely to Benefit

• Country programs will build upon results • Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, and South

East Asia programmes will benefit

Why IFPRI?

• Research, capacity strengthening, and communications

• Global research programs on policies for adapting to global change

• Focus on the impacts of climate change, especially agriculture

• Substantial research on Payment for Environmental Services (PES) approaches

• Access of the rural poor to agricultural commodity markets

Why IFPRI?

• IFPRI researchers leading • 2009 World Development Report on “Managing

Competing Demands for Water and Land under Climate Change”

• CGIAR development of a Challenge Program on Climate Change

New IFPRI/IFAD interventions

Pro-poor interventions to link rural households to

markets for environmental services interventions & policies

Pro-poor interventions & policies to link small holders to dynamic

markets

Pro-poor interventions to link rural households to

markets for environmental services interventions &

policies

Pro-poor markets access interventions & policies

Contracting and other mechanisms to facilitate

access of the poor

Governance assessment methods

Impact evaluation methods

Scaling up methodology

(recommendation domains)

IFAD policy interventions available to

minimize market/

government failures?

Capacity building and Q&A system

NO YES

New tools proposed to implement interventions

Existing IFPRI/IFAD interventions

Components of the Program

• High-value commodity market-access activities• Climate change mitigation market access

activities• Program support functions

Participating Countries

• Countries will be selected by a consultative process between IFAD and IFPRI

• 4 focus countries will be selected• Interested CPMs will be invited to apply

Selection Criteria

• Interest in improving access to commodity markets

• Geographic distribution of countries• Extent of rural poverty• Prior work and presence of IFAD and IFPRI in

the country • Relevant on-going grants and loans under

implementation

Selection Criteria

• On-going projects in collaboration with farmers’ and grassroots’ organizations

• National policies relevant to the program• Supportive policy environment for innovation• Capacity to accept research recommendations• Strong donor groups• Ownership and engagement of CPMs

Expected Outputs

• Promoting access to high-value commodity markets

• Promoting access to climate change mitigation markets

• Capacity strengthening and knowledge management

Implementation

• Consultations to shape research agenda• Consolidation of agreements under MOU• Research institutions with ongoing field

programs may be brought into the program

Program Management

• Joint Steering Committee (JSC)• Program coordinators• Bi-annual progress review • Implementation of thematic activities• Facilitating activities at the country level

2009 Workplan

• Engagement and selection of project• Q&A Portal for policy research and

innovation• Network of policy advisors, researchers and

program implementers• Country-level policy innovation network

2009 Workplan

• Develop and foster policy communications• Partner with regional and global knowledge

sharing and learning systems• Implement focused capacity-strengthening

activities• Bi-annual workshops of progress