A path shared for 27 years - IFAD

Overview of achievements
Between 1984 and 2012, Joint Programme grants were used to pay
for building a broad range of village-level infrastructures, including
263 primary health centres (first-contact level), 4 hospitals (first
referral level), 3,385 water points (wells, boreholes, protected springs),
16,456 latrines, 151 primary schools, 229 post-harvest/marketing
facilities (cereals/food banks to hold buffer stocks, storage facilities
for marketing purposes), 1,381 km of rural roads, and 163 small-scale
irrigation schemes. The installation of each facility was accompanied
by strong support for the establishment and running of elected local
management committees. Care was taken to ensure that women and
other vulnerable categories were adequately represented. The committees
were encouraged to work out their own ways to ensure that vulnerable
categories were not left out, an approach that strengthened the
traditional solidarity mechanisms.
Grants from the Joint Programme were occasionally used to provide
additional resources for the production-oriented measures of IFADfinanced
projects: e.g. pumps for small-scale (family) irrigation in Mali,
where the main thrust of the IFAD project was on large-scale works; and
funds to cover the operating costs of the NGOs engaged to manage the
credit funds set up by three IFAD projects in Rwanda.
Care was taken to ensure that women
and other vulnerable categories
were adequately represented and
the committees were encouraged to
work out their own ways to ensure that
vulnerable categories were not left out.
Young mother washing her cooking pot
at the village tap, Angola.
©IFAD/G. Pirozzi
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