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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. One of the most important insights emerging from the conference was that the causes of food insecurity and famine were not so much failures in food production, but structural problems relating to poverty and to the fact that the majority of the developing world�s poor populations were concentrated in rural areas.
Through low-interest loans and grants, IFAD works with governments to develop and finance programmes and projects that enable rural poor people to overcome poverty themselves. Since starting operations in 1978, IFAD has invested more than US$ 9.6 billion in 738 projects and programmes that have reached more than 300 million poor rural people.
Mr. Thomas Rath, Country Programme Manager for Mongolia, is responsible for the project and programme, being implemented in Mongolia. Please get more information about this Fund from the web site- www.ifad.org.
Mr. Sun Yinhong, portfolia manager is responsible for programme and projects implementation in Mongolia.
UNOPS is the cooperating institution appointed by IFAD for supervision and loan administration of the Rural Poverty Reduction Programme.
Asia and the Pacific office of UNOPS is located in Bangkok, Thailand. Mr. Kishan Gill, portfolia manager is responsible for programme and projects implementation in Mongolia.
One of the main activities of this office is to formulate projects and make evaluation&monitoring; and supervision on the projects, funded by the UN agencies. Please get more information about this Fund from the web site- www.unops.org.
Cooperation between the Government of ��ngolia and IFAD
Mongolia joined the membership of IFAD in 1994. Mongolia has the status of the developing country.
Since Mongolia became a member of IFAD, the two projects have been implemented. In 1996, the Government of Mongolia obtained USD 5 million worth of �Rural Poverty Alleviation Project�. This project has been implemented in Arhangai and Huvsgul provinces of Mongolia and the project has �restocking� and �vegetable production� components. The project implementation was completed in June 2004.
The second IFAD funded project - �Rural Poverty Reduction Programme� (RPRP) was started in July 2003.
Delegates of the Government of Mongolia and IFAD have permanently participated in the conferences and other events, organized by the two parties.
The Programme was developed in 2000-2001. The Loan Agreement of the Programme was signed by the Minister of Finance and Economy of Mongolia and the President of IFAD in November 2002 and the Loan Agreement was ratified by the Parliament of Mongolia in January 2003.
The Programme started to be implemented in Arhangai, Bulgan, Huvsgul and Hentii provinces in August 2003. The programme will be implemented for 7 years.
The long term goal of the RPRP is to achieve sustainable and equitable poverty eradication for vulnerable rural households living in an environment with increasingly degraded natural resources. The overall objective is to achieve a sustainable increase in productive capacity for herders, cultivators and the general public and to offer increased access to economic and social resources, including education, health and social networks.
The total Programme cost amounts to about US$ 19.1 million, of which about US$ 14.8 million are financed by an IFAD loan under highly concessional conditions, XacBank contributes US$ 1.6 million and the Government of Mongolia matches the external funds with US$ 2.7 million. The loan has service charge of 0.75% per annum. Loan maturity is 40 years. Grace period is 10 years.
Ministry of Food and Agriculture is the implementing agency of the Programme.
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