Why IFAD’s interested in Multiple Uses Services (WATSAN sector) ? Delft, The Netherlands.

1. Why IFAD’s interested in Multiple Uses Services (WATSAN sector) ? Delft, The Netherlands. February 12th, 2007 Laurent Stravato

2. Description of IFAD • The International Fund for Agricultural Development is a specialized UN Agency and an International Financial Institution (IFI). • Methodology/Financing mechanisms: Through loans and grants, IFAD works with governments from Developing countries (fragile or not) • Annual portfolio in 2007: 650 M$ in Loans to Governments,50 M$ in grants. • Total 9 Billion US $, 707 programmes since 1977.

3. IFAD mandate Mandate: • Enabling the rural poor to overcome their poverty. Three strategic objectives are: • Strengthen the capacity of the rural poor and their organizations • Improve equitable access to productive natural resources and technologies • Increase access by poor to financial services and markets

4. IFAD project typical example

5. Financial partnerships • IFAD and Belgium Survival Funds (BSF) are working together since 1984. • BSF has increased the value of IFAD’s investment by addressing the most basic needs of poor people: family nutrition and health (280M$). • Financial partnership can create win-win situation where integrated approaches to community development provide synergistic effects. IFAD - BELGIAN SURVIVAL FUND PARTNERSHIP

6. IFAD-BSF Partnership in Africa

7. STEP 1: COSOP (Formal agreement) MANAGEMENT • STEP 2: • INCEPTION MEMO STEP 3: MISSION FORMULATION - Development of Terms of References - Setting up a Team of experts (7 to 15 National and International consultant) STEP 4 and 5: DIAGNOSTIC STUDIES STEP 4: FORMULATION Technical review with emphasis on situation assessment and conceptual development: - Institutions/Political - Infrastructure STEP 6: APPRAISAL -Action plan design STEP 7: Draft La Negotiated EXECUTIVE BOARD PROPOSAL IFAD’s step for project development

8. Technical division(PT) Institutional framework Support to the Management (CPM) Cooperation IFAD-Government-Civil society

9. The Water and Rural Infrastructure desk • IFAD is currently defining its operational strategy on Water for Rural Livelihoods. • Focus on poor rural peoples’ demand and institutions for water to serve their food, feed, and fibre production – including livestock, fully acknowledges their interaction with the environmental use of water, and hinges on basic needs and rights to water for domestic purposes, nutrition and health (Pro-poor Rural Water and Health Sanitation/ppRWHS). • Bring closer collaboration between the Water for Food and WASH

10. IFAD strategical interest in Multiple Uses Services Interrelation Domestic

11. Basic needs Environmental uses of water Multiple Uses Systems Responding to rural poor’s People demand Alleviate poverty for PEOPLE Improve people’s food security Water for other uses Potential impacts of integrating Multiple Uses Systems into IFAD’s funded project Multi sectoral integration Bridging the gap between Water for food and WATSAN Enabling environment Institutional framework Implementation Management

12. Next step IFAD has developed a short list of potential partners which may be able to provide support to such initiatives within IFAD framework. • Financial • Develop a fund focusing on MUS into IFAD projects. • Implementation • Finding experts and practicioners supporting IFAD to implement MUS.

13. Potential implementing partners

14. Potential financial partners

15. Questions on MUS • Implementation and rural infrastructure. • Context specificity : (countries in transition, capacity of local government ?) • Multi-sectoral approach (perception of national government)

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