Rwandan government will this week host a national roundtable workshop to discuss the main findings that were raised during the Country Program that was conducted by the International Fund Agriculture Development( IFAD.
The workshop is scheduled on Sept. 29, at Lemigo Hotel with MINAGRI as the main organizer. It is preceded by a field visit on Sept. 27 and 28, in all provinces.
Foste Uwumuremyi, a Finance Management Specialist in MINAGRI told igihe.com that the workshop is intended to validate the report compiled by CPE and devise the way forward thereafter.
Prior to the workshop, there will be the signing of an agreement between MINICOFIN and IFAD
Since 1981, IFAD has financed 13 rural development programs and projects in Rwanda for a total amount of US$149.9 million.
The financing provided by IFAD consists of loans on highly concessional terms and since 2008, full grant funding has been based on the Debt Sustainability Framework.
There are currently two generations of IFAD-financed programs and projects. The first, designed during the 1980s and 1990s, included integrated rural development programs and projects.
The programs and projects’ aim to develop the agricultural sector in specific parts of the country by identifying all related elements and linking them together.
Among others, the project that is still active in this regard is the Umutara Community Resource and Infrastructure Development Project (PDRCIU).
Projects of the second generation, in place since the mid-1990s, call for activities that have an impact beyond the local level.
They focus on a single aspect of rural development, such as market access or agricultural production and its relation to government policy-setting or other national initiatives already in place, to favor their replication in the rural environment.
According to Uwumuremyi, the IFAD also supports different Rwandan initiatives including Support Project for the Strategic Transformation of Agriculture (PAPSTA), and Kirehe Community Based Watershed Management Project (KWAMP) among others.
IFAD is also hosting the Second Global AgriKnowledge Share Fair that set off today Sept. 26, in Rome.
This is intended to provide a forum for participants to learn and share knowledge, experience and innovations on emerging trends relating to agriculture, climate change, food security, mobile technology, social media and influence future rural development activities.
It attracted the UN food and agriculture agencies and other partners and will run up to Sept. 29.
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