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  • 118th session of the Executive Board

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following documents have been posted:

    EB 2016/118/R.40 - Proposal to accept supplementary funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.1/Rev.1 - Provisional agenda (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (08/09/2016)
  • Ad Hoc Working Group on Governance - seventh meeting

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following documents have been posted:

    WGG 2016/7/L.1 - Provisional agenda (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    WGG 2016/7/L.2 - Draft report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Governance

    Over 9 years ago (07/09/2016)
  • 118th session of the Executive Board

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following documents have been posted:

    EB 2016/118/R.39 - An overview of IFAD’s holistic approach to tailoring operations to country context (encompassing fragile situations, MICs, PBAS, and decentralization) (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/INF.4 - Overview of the supplementary funds received, committed and used in 2015 (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/INF.5 - Operational procedures for country strategies (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/FFP6 (EB) - Planned country activities for 2016-2018 (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/INF.6 - Proposal for a Facility for Refugees, Migration and Stability (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (01/09/2016)
  • Ninety-third session of the Evaluation Committee

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following document has been posted:

    EC 2016/93/INF.1 - A new harmonization agreement - refining the delivery process and time line (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (30/08/2016)
  • Appointment of Associate Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Controller, ad interim, Financial Operations Department

    IFAD is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Mikio Kashiwagi, a national of Japan, as Associate Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Controller, ad interim, Financial Operations Department. Mr Kashiwagi will join IFAD on 1 October 2016.

    Before his retirement from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2014, Mr Kashiwagi served as Treasurer of the Bank for over 10 years. Prior to joining the ADB, Mr Kashiwagi worked extensively in the private sector, in Tokyo, Zurich and London, focusing on corporate banking, market trading/dealing, and asset and risk management.

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    Over 9 years ago (26/08/2016)
  • 118th session of the Executive Board

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following documents have been posted:

    EB 2016/118/R.15 - Proposed amendments to the instrument establishing the trust fund for the IFAD Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.31 - Draft provisional agenda for the fortieth session of the Governing Council (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.38 - Report on IFAD’s investment portfolio for the first and second quarters of 2016 (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.17 - Niger: President's memorandum: Proposed loan and grant to the Republic of Niger to close the funding gap for the Family Farming Development Programme (ProDAF) in Maradi, Tahoua and Zinder Regions (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.21 - Viet Nam: Commercial Smallholder Support Programme in Bac Kan and Cao Bang (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.20 - Zimbabwe: Smallholder Irrigation Revitalization Programme (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.32 - Progress report on the fifth and sixth meetings of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Governance (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.34 - Election of representatives of the Governing Council to the IFAD Staff Pension Committee (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.33 - Report of the Chairperson on the third meeting of the Working Group on the Performance-Based Allocation System (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.11 - Argentina: COSOP (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.16 - Climate mainstreaming in IFAD funded Programmes (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.5 - Indonesia: Country programme evaluation (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.18 - Ethiopia: Participatory Small-scale Irrigation Development Programme II (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.12 - China: COSOP (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (25/08/2016)
  • 118th session of the Executive Board

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following documents have been posted:

    EB 2016/118/INF.3 - IFAD's lending terms and conditions: Interest rates for the year 2016 for loans on ordinary and intermediate terms (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.2 - High-level preview of IFAD’s 2017 results-based programme of work and regular and capital budgets, and the preview of the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD’s results-based work programme and budget for 2017 and indicative plan for 2018-2019 (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.30 - Review of the Sovereign Borrowing Framework (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.25 - Report of the Chairperson on the 140th meeting of the Audit Committee (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.19 - Rwanda: Rwanda Dairy Development Project (RDDP) (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.22 - Morocco: Rural Development Project in the Atlas Mountains (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.4 - China: Country programme evaluation (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.13 - Indonesia: COSOP (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.14 - Turkey: COSOP (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.9 - Midterm Review of IFAD’s Policy on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.6 - Turkey: Country programme evaluation (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.23 - Grant under the country-specific grants window to ABC Microfinance to support Malian diaspora financing for rural youth (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.37 - Follow-up matrix on the second retreat of the IFAD Executive Board (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.36 - Proposal to accept supplementary funds from the Rockefeller Foundation (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (19/08/2016)
  • 118th session of the Executive Board

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following documents have been posted:

    EB 2016/118/R.8 - Report on IFAD’s Development Effectiveness (RIDE) (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.10 - President’s Report on the Implementation Status of Evaluation Recommendations and Management Actions (PRISMA) (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.29 - Proposal to access the KfW borrowing facility for IFAD10 (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/INF.2 - Synthesis of the second retreat of the IFAD Executive Board (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.35 - Revision to the minutes of the 117th session of the Executive Board (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.28 - IFAD's variable interest rate methodology: Impact of negative interest rates (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.27 - Review of the adequacy of the level of the General Reserve (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.24 - Establishment of the Consultation on the Eleventh Replenishment of IFAD's Resources (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.7 - Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations (ARRI) (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.3 - Minutes of the ninety-second session of the Evaluation Committee (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (12/08/2016)
  • Ninety-second session of the Evaluation Committee

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following document has been posted:

    EC 2016/92/W.P.2/Rev.1 - Islamic Republic of The Gambia Country Programme Evaluation (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (11/08/2016)
  • 118th session of the Executive Board

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following documents have been posted:

    EB 2016/118/R.1 - Provisional agenda (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.18 - Ethiopia: Participatory Small-scale Irrigation Development Programme II
    EB 2016/118/R.19 - Rwanda: Rwanda Dairy Development Project (RDDP)
    EB 2016/118/R.25 - Report of the Chairperson on the 140th meeting of the Audit Committee
    EB 2016/118/R.30 - Review of the Sovereign Borrowing Framework
    EB 2016/118/R.32 - Progress report on the fifth and sixth meetings of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Governance
    EB 2016 FFP4 (AC/EB) - Status report on arrears in principal, interest and service charge payments (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.34 - Election of Governing Council representatives to the IFAD Staff Pension Committee
    EB 2016/118/R.33 - Report of the Chairperson on the third meeting of the Working Group on the Performance-Based Allocation System
    EB 2016/118/R.22 - Morocco: Rural Development Project in the Atlas Mountains
    EB 2016/118/R.24 - Establishment of the Consultation on the Eleventh Replenishment of IFAD's Resources
    EB 2016/118/R.26 - Report of the Chairperson on the 141st meeting of the Audit Committee
    EB 2016/118/R.27 - Review of the adequacy of the General Reserve
    EB 2016/118/R.38 - Report on IFAD’s investment portfolio for the first and second quarters of 2016
    EB 2016/118/R.11 - Argentina: COSOP
    EB 2016/118/R.12 - China: COSOP
    EB 2016/118/R.20 - Zimbabwe: Smallholder Irrigation Revitalization Programme
    EB 2016/118/R.4 - China: Country programme evaluation
    EB 2016/118/R.5 - Indonesia: Country programme evaluation
    EB 2016/118/R.7 - Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations (ARRI)
    EB 2016/118/R.8 - Report on IFAD’s Development Effectiveness (RIDE)
    EB 2016/118/R.16 - Climate mainstreaming in IFAD funded Programmes
    EB 2016/118/R.13 - Indonesia: COSOP
    EB 2016/118/R.14 - Turkey: COSOP
    EB 2016/118/R.2 - High-level preview of IFAD’s 2017 results-based programme of work and regular and capital budgets, and the preview of the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD’s results-based work programme and budget for 2017 and indicative plan for 2018-2019
    EB 2016/118/R.3 - Minutes of the ninety-second session of the Evaluation Committee
    EB 2016/118/R.6 - Turkey: Country programme evaluation
    EB 2016/118/R.9 - Midterm Review of IFAD’s Policy on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
    EB 2016/118/R.10 - President’s Report on the Implementation Status of Evaluation Recommendations and Management Actions (PRISMA)
    EB 2016/118/R.29 - Proposal to access the KfW borrowing facility for IFAD10
    EB 2016/118/R.39 - An overview of IFAD’s holistic approach to tailoring operations to country context (encompassing fragile situations, MICs, PBAS, and decentralization)
    EB 2016/118/R.15 - Proposed amendments to the instrument establishing the trust fund for the IFAD Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP)
    EB 2016/118/R.21 - Viet Nam: Commercial Smallholder Support Programme in Bac Kan and Cao Bang
    EB 2016/118/R.23 - Grant under the country-specific grants window to ABC Microfinance to support Malian diaspora financing for rural youth
    EB 2016/118/INF.1 - Arrangements for the 118th session of the Executive Board (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.28 - IFAD's variable interest rate methodology: Impact of negative interest rates
    EB 2016/118/R.37 - Follow-up matrix on the second retreat of the IFAD Executive Board
    EB 2016 FFP5 (AC/EB) - Report on the status of contributions to the Tenth Replenishment of IFAD’s Resources (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2016/118/R.17 - Niger: President's memorandum: Proposed loan and grant to the Republic of Niger to close the funding gap for the Family Farming Development Programme (ProDAF) in Maradi, Tahoua and Zinder Regions
    EB 2016/118/R.31 - Draft provisional agenda for the fortieth session of the Governing Council
    EB 2016/118/R.35 - Revision to the minutes of the 117th session of the Executive Board
    EB 2016/118/R.36 - Proposal to accept supplementary funds from the Rockefeller Foundation

    Over 9 years ago (11/08/2016)