Enabling poor rural people to improve their food security and nutrition, raise their incomes and strengthen their resilience

IFAD's fourth Strategic Framework covers the period 2011-2015. It presents IFAD's overarching goal, objectives and thematic areas of focus. The framework enunciates the principles of engagement guiding operations.

IFAD's overarching goal is: enabling poor rural people to improve their food security and nutrition, raise their incomes and strengthen their resilience. This goal is underpinned by five strategic objectives:

• A natural resource and economic asset base for poor rural women and men that is more resilient to climate change, environmental degradation and market transformation;
• Access for poor rural women and men to services to reduce poverty, improve nutrition, raise incomes and build resilience in a changing environment;
• Poor rural women and men and their organizations able to manage profitable, sustainable and resilient farm and non-farm enterprises or take advantage of decent work opportunities;
• Poor rural women and men and their organizations able to influence policies and institutions that affect their livelihoods; and
• Enabling institutional and policy environments to support agricultural production and the full range of related non-farm activities.

For more information, visit http://www.ifad.org/sf/index.htm

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