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1. COSOP 2011-2015
IFAD comparative advantage at country level:
• Supporting improved food security
• Improving livelihood of beneficiaries through
participatory approach
• Enhancing leverage by building responsive institutional
partnerships
• Utilizing its capacity to target poor and vulnerable
groups in rural areas
• Maintaining close partnerships with national and local
Government

2. COSOP Goal
To ensure that the rural poor have more choices
for sustainable food security and economic
livelihoods
COSOP 2011-2015

3. COSOP 2011-2015

4. SO1 - Community-based improved access to, and management
of, land and natural resources
Outcomes:
 Producer interest groups empowered to protect land and
natural resources;
 Producer interest groups plan and oversee non-timber forest
products domestication/harvesting
 Village-based forest management plans elaborated through
community-based approaches
 Improved sub-catchment planning improve sustainable
access to and use of water (HHs and production)
 Effective forest restoration and catchment protection
realized
COSOP 2011-2015

5. Outcomes achieved through:
Formation of public access points to disseminate
knowledge community/individual rights
Support to improve tenure security
Support to producer interest groups
NTFP resource assessment
Village water planning, promotion of simple
options for water harvesting
COSOP 2011-2015

6. Development of partnerships to enhance
impact
Provision of technical assistance to partners
Develop synergies with on-going initiatives
COSOP 2011-2015

7. SO2 - Sustainable, adaptive and integrated
farming systems developed
Outcomes:
Increased sustainable production through
effective use of integrated agricultural systems
Improved nutritional balance among poor HHs
Improved resilience and adaptability to
climatic variability, pest and disease outbreaks
COSOP 2011-2015

8. Outcomes achieved through:
 Promotion of integrated production systems inclusive
of HH gardens, livestock, aquaculture, cropping,
reliance on NTFPs
 Diversified crop portfolios
 Simple sloping land conservation practices
 Availability of improved genetic material (seeds and
breeds)
 Promotion of small-scale irrigation and water
harvesting techniques at community level
 Improved post-harvest management of products
COSOP 2011-2015

9. Build capacity and technical know-how and
promote approaches to help transform
traditional farming practices into integrated
farming systems (NAFRI, NAFES, PAFO, DAFO
as well as individual farmers, service delivery
agencies, and private sector)
COSOP 2011-2015

10. SO3 - Linkages to Markets
Outcomes:
Improved incomes and benefit flows from
enhanced access to functioning value chains
Village-based production groups in charge of
production, marketing, conservation, and
advocacy efforts
Develop local value added opportunities
Improved technical, marketing, financial support
for production groups
COSOP 2011-2015

11. Outcomes achieved through:
 Farmers’ organizations (focal points for technical
services delivery; advocacy bodies; vehicles to link
production with markets)
 Promotion of forward contracts (access to finance,
linkages producers/traders)
 Improve distribution of village-based production/value-
added products for local/regional markets
 Commercial financing of trade and investment through
farmers’ organizations
 Road infrastructure from villages to key trading points
COSOP 2011-2015

12. Cross-cutting issues:
Capacity building of beneficiaries and service
providers
Sensitive and appropriate engagement with
ethnic groups
Fostering engagements with women
Strategic infrastructure related to farming
systems and markets
Formation of farmers and producers common
interest groups
Resilience and adaptation to climate change
COSOP 2011-2015

13. Opportunities for Innovation and Scaling-Up
Land tenure
Agreements on improved access to NFTPs
Integrated farming systems
Improved access to markets through
integrated and enhanced value chains
COSOP 2011-2015

14. Targeting Strategy
Ethnically diverse groups of poor HHs in rural
areas with a focus on:
Highly vulnerable food-insecure HHs (>4
months)
Poor HHs moderately food-insecure but with
great potential to access markets
COSOP 2011-2015

15. Policy Dialogue
Development of farmers’ organizations
Formal recognition of communal tenure
Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on rural
poverty
Enhancing farming communities to further
engage in agricultural extension
COSOP 2011-2015

16. COSOP aligned with 7th National Social and
Economic Development Plan
Projects not always well aligned with COSOP
COSOP indicators not always supported by any
underlying measurement system
Significant differences in Logframe structures
(levels of results) and in indicators
COSOP 2011-2015

17. Corporate indicators
COSOP
indicators
Indicators and targets at project level
FNML SSSJ SNRMP
People moved out of poverty -----
12,000 HH lifted out
of poverty (each HH
with a per capita
income of USD190 per
annum)
Progress in achieving the
MDG No. 1 by 2015 in the
two provinces (reducing
poverty rates by at least
5%)
Household asset ownership index -----
6,000 HH with an
assets index of at least
0.3
20% increase in income
and in the ownership of
household assets
Rural incomes have
increased by 25%
from 2008
Level of child malnutrition,
disaggregated for girls and boys
-----
Child malnutrition at
least 10% better than
the national average
and 35% or lower
20% reduction in child
malnutrition
Incidence of rural
malnutrition has
dropped by 50%
over 2008
Length of hungry season -----
6,000 HH with
improved food
security (measured as
a HFIAS score of 7.0 or
lower)
At least 35% households
with improved food
security
COSOP 2011-2015

18. IFAD's Strategic Objectives and areas of thematic focus COSOP
Investment projects
FNML SSSJ SNRMP
SO1: Increase rural people's productive capacities
1. Access to natural resources X (x) (x) X
2. Access to agricultural technologies and production services X X X X
3. Inclusive financial services (x) X --- ---
4. Nutrition (x) X --- ---
SO2: Increase rural people’s benefits from market participation
1. Diversified rural enterprise and employment opportunities X X X X
2. Rural investment environment (x) (x) --- X
3. Rural producer organizations X X X X
4. Rural infrastructure X X X (x)
SO3: Strengthen the environmental sustainability and climate
resilience of rural people’s economic activities
1. Environmental sustainability X --- --- X
2. Climate change adaptation and mitigation (x) X --- ---
COSOP 2011-2015

19. Implementation Arrangements
 Decentralization of Project Management;
 Sustainability post-project completion;
 Ownership by locals increased;
 Need to implement strong capacity building
programs to enhance skills (local authorities,
local service providers, local management
teams)
Key Issues

20. Flow of Funds
Increase responsibility and accountancy at
local level;
Need for shortening the decision process
(planning, approval, disbursement);
Need for simple procedures, checks and
balances, capacity building at local level
Key Issues

21. Activities
 Improve synergy between activities (Livelihood
Initiative for Nutrition under SSSJ);
 Abandon “one size fits all” approach but respond to
village/beneficiary needs through differentiated
approaches;
 Improve cost per beneficiary ratio/cost efficiency of
activities with proper MIS;
 Improve access to finance;
 Improve local capacity to implement and monitor pro-
poor development projects
Key Issues

22. M&E – MIS
Improve reliability, consistency and
functionality of meaningful MIS and M&E
systems;
Ensure use of performance data for project
steering;
Monitor few relevant key indicators for results
and impact of program’s activities
Key Issues

23. Knowledge Management
Further disseminate successful experiences
and lessons learned throughout the portfolio;
Develop learning events/routes at national
and regional levels;
Ensure further participation in sectoral
working groups (agriculture, rural
development, rural finance)
Key Issues

24. Alignment on 8th NSEDP
COSOP 2016-2020
 Enhanceeffectivenessof public governanceandadministration
Outcome1- Sustainedinclusive
economic growthwitheconomic
vulnerability(EVI)reducedand
consolidatedfinancial,legaland
humanresourcesto supportgrowth
Outcome2- Humandevelopmentenhancedandachievementof SDGsenabled
throughtheprovisionanduseof serviceswhicharebalancedgeographicallyand
distributedbetweensocialgroupswithprotectionanddevelopmentof Lao
culture,politicalstability,peace,order,justiceandtransparency
Outcome3- Reducedeffectsof
naturalshocksandclimatechangeand
sustainablemanagementof natural
resources
Cross-cutting Themes
 Localinnovationandutilizationof science,technologyandtelecommunications
 Promotegenderequality,andservicesto JuvenilesandYouth
OverallObjective: Reducedpoverty,graduationfromLeast
DevelopedCountryStatuswithsustainedandinclusivegrowth
throughpromotionof nationalpotentialandcomparative
advantages,effectivemanagementandutilizationof natural
resourcesandstronginternationalintegration

25. Alignment on MAF Agricultural Development Strategy 2020
Objective: Modernized Agriculture Natural Resources sector
Goal 1: Improvement of livelihood (through agriculture and
livestock activities) has food security as priority
Goal 2: Development of pro-poor and green value chains
through support for partnering investments in commodity
production for local, regional, global markets
Goal 3: Support implementation of climate resilience measures
to stabilize shifting cultivation with social/environmental focus
Goal 4: Develop institutional capacity and human resources to
plan, manage and monitor agriculture natural resources
COSOP 2016-2020

26. Current projects:
SSSJ. (i) Integrated farming systems - (ii) Linkages to
markets. Ending 2017
FNML. (i) Food security and pro-poor market access
- (ii) Inclusive rural finance - (iii) Smallholder
adaptation to climate change. Ending 2019.
GASFP. (i) Food security and nutrition for rural
households. Ending 2021.
Livestock project. (i) Inclusive rural finance - (ii)
Improved livelihoods. Ending 2021.
COSOP 2016-2020