Scaling up agriculture and rural development programs supported by IFAD

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SCALING UP AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

SUPPORTED BY IFAD

13-14 June 2011

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IFAD’s continuing objectives in IFAD9(that which does not change)

• IFAD targets poor rural populations and small-scale farmers to reduce rural poverty

• IFAD will help farmers to meet global and local food needs

• IFAD will support community-designed and managed rural development projects and farmer organizations

• IFAD will use government and local management systems rather than managing projects itself

• IFAD will be a catalyst to mobilize other donor and government resources and policies in favour of the IFAD target group

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What does change in IFAD9

• More focus on gender, nutrition, environment, climate change, private sector engagement, economic efficiency, scaling up

• Country leadership and in-country planning key – reflected in COSOPs and projects

• IFAD country presence to take on more responsibility

• IFAD will participate in country agricultural strategies, policy advice, knowledge-sharing, innovation at country level

• Quality of projects and COSOPs to improve

• Partnership with all actors

• Better monitoring and reporting on results and outcomes

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Obtaining impact on a larger scale is urgent

• About 1 billion hungry people in the world, relatively stable since the 1990s

• 2 billion people live on less than $2 per day• IFAD’s ongoing projects bringing about 36 million out of

poverty• IFAD needs to help scale up proven solutions to impact more

people• Scaling up would improve IFAD efficiency and sustainability

of projects• Question: how to obtain significantly broader impact on more

people without a large expansion of IFAD resources?

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IFAD has the experience and capacity to scale up

• Scaling up has already featured prominently in IFAD’s strategic framework(s):

- Going beyond innovation: “Innovation without scaling up is of little value” (SF 2007-2010)

- Treating scaling up as “mission critical” (SF 2011-2015)

• Institutional scaling up review (Brookings 2010) showed that we have good examples of supporting scaling up solutions

• But we will have to become more systematic about it• Peru highland development is a good example of how to

do it right (next slides)

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Local talents

Peru- Key innovations being scaled up

Local Resource Allocation Commitees (LARC)

‘Concursos’ (competitions) around NRM

Women saving accounts

Direct transfer of public funds

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Peru: effectiveness - impact - efficiency

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Peru: effectiveness - impact - efficiency

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Peru: effectiveness - impact - efficiency

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Peru: effectiveness - impact - efficiency

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Peru: effectiveness - impact - efficiency

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Scaling up for broader impact will be the biggest business model change for IFAD9

• Planning for impact at scale begins in IFAD-Government Country Strategy

• Each project design to plan for operating at scale

• Deepen country and local leadership in strategy, project design and execution

• IFAD-financed projects to use local systems; building capacity for self management

• Operating at scale requires institutional development at national and local government, farmer organization and civil society

• Impact at scale requires enabling government policy and public expenditure program, and measurement of impact

• Mobilizing local and other donor cofinancing and participation easier for programs having large scale impact

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Operating at scale will mean greater number of beneficiaries per dollar invested

• The efficiency of projects and programs in terms of the numbers of poor people benefitting will need to increase dramatically

• Current IFAD targets are to decrease the cost per person pulled out of poverty from IFAD resources from about $ 83 at present, to $ 40.

• To get there we will approach the operational challenge of scaling up in a systematic way

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New idea, model, approach

Pilot, Project

M&E,Learning

& KM

Internalknowledge

Outsideknowledge

LimitedImpact

Scale up

MultipleImpact

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More systematic – The basics 2: changing the mind-set and basic approach

• Agree on a definition:- “Scaling up means expanding, replicating, adapting and sustaining

successful policies, programs or projects in different places and over time to reach a greater number of rural poor.”

• Change our mindset from “one project at a time” to asking “what next, if this project works?”

• Develop scaling up strategy early on and take proactive steps to plan and prepare for it (go beyond “exit strategies”).

• Move from a project to a programmatic (scaling up) approach using our COSOP process proactively.

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More systematic – the basics 3: Defining pathways for scaling up

1. Define the desired scale2. Ask who owns and will drive the process3. Explore how to create the space for scaling up

(financial, policy, political, etc.)4. Develop partnerships early on5. Define the intermediate results6. Select IFAD’s operational instruments

• With own resources (top-up, repeater project, replication across countries, etc.)

• With or by partners (cofinancing, SWAp, hand-off, etc.)

7. Monitor and evaluate

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More systematic – the nitty-gritty stuff: Operational processes and incentives

• Corporate processes- Updated COSOP guidelines and source book (Jan 2011)- Revised outline Project Design Document (Jan 2011)- COSOP and Project Quality Enhancement Process (2011)- Portfolio Review Guidelines have separate scoring on replication

and scaling up- Strategic Framework 2010-12 sees scaling up as mission critical- PRISMA will report on scaling up- IOE evaluation framework: will cover scaling up aspects

• Incentives- We will acknowledge and reward staff and managers for effective

innovation, knowledge management and scaling up

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Next Steps

• Expanding our knowledge basis: case studies, thematic reviews

• Enhancing our country level engagement: guidance tools, CPMT capacity development

• Monitoring progress and results and adapting as we learn

• Sharing lessons with like-minded partners: mutual per reviews, joint learning events