Mainstreaming Climate, Gender, Nutrition and Youth.

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At the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), the General Assembly called on United Nations entities to “further enhance the mainstreaming of sustainable
development in their respective mandates, programmes, strategies and decision- making processes”. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 agenda such as such as SDG 13(climate change), SDG 5 (gender equality) and SDG 2 (nutrition) – all work towards realizing SDG 1 (poverty eradication) and SDG 10 (reducing inequality). Because in addressing the climate change mitigation and adaptation while improving the nutritional status of the people and establishing gender equality and women’s empowerment, we will be already be looking at a better resilient world.

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Thus the four thematic areas of climate change, gender, nutrition and youth have become an essential part of today’s development agenda.

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Read more about the IFAD’s work through the resources prepared for “Consultation on the Eleventh
Replenishment of IFAD’s Resources (IFAD11) on Looking ahead: IFAD in the
context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” here.

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The Rural Solutions Portal

The world’s first web-based tool which designed to collect and share agricultural and rural development solutions implemented in the developing countries was launched by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The Rural Solutions Portal was introduced to the Government officials, development partners and diplomatic missions representatives in NewDelhi, India on 29 June 2017.

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At the first reveal of the platform, the IFAD Director of Global Engagement and Multilateral Relations, Ashwani K Muthoo said: “Common challenges can be addressed by common solutions. The potential for smallholder farmers, development practitioners and institutions from Global South to learn from each other is immense, and the first step is sharing information about what works.”

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The portal is one of the key commitments by IFAD towards advancing the “Brasilia Declaration and Action Agenda” which was adopted during the International Conference on South-South Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) held in Brasilia in November 2017.

Source and read more at the IFAD Press Release.

The Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) by IFAD

The Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) was launched in 2012 by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). It is the largest global financing project which is committed to funding at least 8 million smallholder farmers to access information, tools and technologies and build their resilience to climate change.

ASAP aims to make the smallholder farmers climate resilient and orchestrate a massive Scaling-up of successful ”multiple-benefit” approaches. It expects to increase the smallholder farmers’ output while reducing and diversifying the climate-related risks.

ASAP is financed by IFAD and the governments of Belgium, Canada, Finland, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the Region of Flanders. 40 ASAP supported projects were approved, committing to an amount of US$271.6 million towards the adaptation to climate change.