IFAD - International Fund for Agricultural Development
IFAD's goal is to empower poor rural women and men in developing countries to achieve higher incomes and improved food security. Objectives - IFAD will ensure that poor rural people have better access to, and the skills and organization they need to take advantage of: Natural resources, especially secure access to land and water, and improved natural resource management and conservation practices; Improved agricultural technologies and effective production services; A broad range of financial services; Transparent and competitive markets for agricultural inputs and produce; Opportunities for rural off-farm employment and enterprise development; Local and national policy and programming processes.
Innovations in the microfinance program planned for the coming year
In partnership: financial inclusion, product innovations, gender with microfinance, risk management.
Areas of intervention
Microfinance investment vehicles
Evaluation
Impact and performances studies
Management information systems
Graduation of MFIs
Strategic planning
Strengthening national/regional microfinance support sector (e.g. credit bureaus, consultants, rating)
Sector mapping
Academic research
Risk management
Marketing
MFI operations (e.g. general management, governance, finance and accounting, staff, training, recruiting)