Research – RAMYA G. KULKARNI- RESEARCH BLOG

Time for Results!!

It is almost time to wrap up the research, gather the conclusions and discuss them.

Over the past 10 weeks, my research goal was to analyse the IFAD projects for their Nutrition mainstreaming approaches coupled with gender aspects. The projects selected were approved between 2010-2015 and categorised as Nutrition sensitive.

I am now in the process of analysing the Supervisory reports of the projects to examine the approaches that IFAD has been using to Mainstreaming the theme of Nutrition with a Gender dimension.

Mainstreaming Climate, Gender, Nutrition and Youth.

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.

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

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.

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.