1. ©
IFAD & IFPRI
Strategic Partnership to
Develop Innovative Policies on
Climate Change Mitigation and
Market Access

2. Objectives
• Strengthen capacity of country programme
partners
• Evaluate options for improved access to
market opportunities
• Mainstream solutions
• national policies
• investment programs

3. 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

4. IFAD Projects Likely to Benefit
• Country programs will build upon results
• Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, and
South East Asia programmes will benefit

5. 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

6. 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

7. IFAD policy
interventions
NO YES
available to
minimize
market/
government
failures?
Existing IFPRI/IFAD
New tools proposed to
New IFPRI/IFAD
interventions
implement interventions
interventions
Contracting and other
Pro-poor interventions to Pro-poor interventions to
mechanisms to facilitate
link rural households to link rural households to
access of the poor
markets for markets for environmental
environmental services services interventions &
Governance assessment
interventions & policies policies
methods
Impact evaluation methods
Pro-poor interventions &
Pro-poor markets access
policies to link small
interventions & policies
Scaling up methodology
holders to dynamic
markets (recommendation domains)
Capacity building and Q&A system

8. Components of the Program
• High-value commodity market-access activities
• Climate change mitigation market access
activities
• Program support functions

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Expected Outputs
• Promoting access to high-value commodity
markets
• Promoting access to climate change mitigation
markets
• Capacity strengthening and knowledge
management

13. Implementation
• Consultations to shape research agenda
• Consolidation of agreements under MOU
• Research institutions with ongoing field
programs may be brought into the program

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

15. 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

16. 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