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Interim evaluation With an estimated GNP per capita of just USD 100, Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world - about one third of the population live in absolute poverty. Ninety per...

Completion Evaluation October 1994 Executive Summary Background Over the last twenty years, Mauritius has undergone major structural changes from an agricultural mono-crop economy with a rapidly...

Ex-post evaluation Rural poverty in Brazil is concentrated in the Northeast region of the country. Per capita income in this region is only half the average for the country. Seventy percent of...

Mid-term Evaluation Findings The Hillside Farmers Support Project (HFSP) is in its fifth out of the six years initially planned for implementation. Project objectives were to provide credit and...

Mid-term Evaluation Progress in implementation Physical and Financial Performance: Although the Loan Agreement was signed in January 1988, delays resulted in IFAD credit being utilized only in Year...

Over the last twenty years, Mauritius has undergone major structural changes from an agricultural mono-crop economy with a rapidly growing population, high unemployment and low per capita incomes...

Completion evaluation The Completion Evaluation mission of the Small Farmers Agricultural Development (SFAD) project worked in St. Lucia from the 2nd to the 19th of November 1994. The project faced...

The aim of the Interim Evaluation Mission (IEM) was to review the implementation of the Toledo Small Farmers Development Project (TSFDP) in relation to the stated hypotheses, strategies, targets...

Evaluation purpose and scope At the request of the Executive Board of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) a series of Country Portfolio Evaluations (CPEs) were undertaken in...

Ex-post Evaluation In the 1970s, the Indonesian economy grew robustly as a result of favourable economic policies. Since 1981, however, the fall in oil prices has caused a severe deterioration in...

Mid-term evaluation Project design and objectives Background Country context. During the past three decades, Thailand has enjoyed a consistently high rate of economic growth which has pushed it...

Completion evaluation1 Introduction Following the closing of the Tafilalet and Dadès Rural Development Project (PDRT), a completion evaluation mission from the Office of Evaluation of the...

Completion evaluation report summary The project area comprises two distinct swamp areas located 7 km apart on the southern banks of the river Gambia. The climate, soils and topography are...

La zone du projet couvre le nord-est du massif du Fouta Djallon, constituée en grande partie de zones d'altitude ainsi que des versants nord et nord-est du massif. Elle englobe les préfectures de...

Main findings and conclusions Evaluation purpose and scope This is the second Country Portfolio Evaluation (CPE) undertaken by the Fund. Its purpose is to contribute to better project design and...

The project covers the rural areas of the northern provinces of the Chuquisaca Department in Bolivia. Its cost was USD 21.0 million and the amount of the IFAD loan USD 13.8 million. The target...

The most notable achievements of the project have been: an increase in the production and productivity of some goods such as potatoes and peaches, and an improvement in sheep management, as a...

Lesotho is a small, mountainous country which is entirely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa (RSA). The economy is largely open to and dependent on that of South Africa, which provides...

Mid-term evaluation Rwanda has one of the highest population densities in the world (280/km2 ) and a very high annual population growth rate (3.3%), the result is that land access is becoming...

Mid-term evaluation report summary The project area is in the Inner Himalayan region in west-central Bhutan, with peaks ranging from 3 000 to 5 000 meters and includes many densely populated...

El proyecto se encuentra localizado en la parte sudoriental del departamento de Potosí e incluye zonas rurales de las provincias de Nor Chichas, Sud Chichas y Modesto Omiste. El área de...

Interim evaluation The aim of the Cotagaita San Juan del Oro Agricultural Development Project (PCSJO) is to increase the incomes and living standards of the rural population of the provinces of Nor...

Interim evaluation The project was designed to build institutions and provide the platform for future development. Overall, only modest production increases were expected given the pilot nature of...

Résumé du rapport d'évaluation intermédiaire Le PSN est constitué de trois sous programmes ou "volets" répartis dans cinq zones d'intervention ou "unités de terrain" (UT) très dispersées et...

Mid-term evaluation The project area covers four of the Central Plateau's seven provinces: Yatenga, Passoré (northern CRPA), Bam and Sanmatenga (north-central CRPA) and more precisely 12...

Completion evaluation Under the Second Small Farmer Development Project (SFDP II), the assistance given to small farmer groups (SFGs) was extended to a further 12 districts. At the same time,...

Interim Evaluation Agricultural Management Training in Africa (AMTA) Executive Summary A. Background 1. The Agricultural Management Training Programme for Africa (AMTA) was conceived by IFAD in the...

The project Introduction The USD 3.3 million Second Artisanal Fisheries Development Project was approved in December 1990 and became effective in April 1992. The IFAD loan amounts to SDR 1.2...

Interim evaluation The Minya governorate constitutes a project area of 223 500 ha of which about 188 120 ha are under cultivation. The cultivated area is generally flat, with fine to medium...

Interim evaluation Background The project area consists of about 16 000 feddans and is located about 160 km North-West of Cairo. The topography is flat to gently undulating with soils that are...

The project was to be situated within the Kasungu Agricultural Development Division (KADD). It would be part of the National Rural Development Programme (NRDP) and comprise the Kasungu, Mchinji and...

Interim evaluation report Background The Fayoum governorate is located in a depression of about 179 500 ha south of Cairo and 25 km west of the Nile River. It is a clearly defined basin, with...

Interim Evaluation Report Background and present status Agriculture is the main sector of the Guatemalan economy, accounting for about 26% of GDP and providing employment for over 50% of the...

Ex-post Evaluation Introduction The objectives of the Study were to analyze the positive and negative impacts and effects of the actions displayed within the frame of the Integrated Rural...

Mid-term Evaluation Report The project is national in coverage but some components are directed to three districts in each of Eastern and Luapula provinces. Since almost all of rural Zambia is...

Résumé du rapport d'évaluation intermédiaire La zone du projet comprend un vaste espace constitué par 5 régions (wilayas) sur les 12 que compte le pays. Les oasis, environ 350, sont éparpillées,...

Interim evaluation Sao Tome et principe is constituted of two islands at 300 km of Gabon. The various agro-ecological conditions (930 mm of rainfallsin the north and more than 7 000 mm in the...

Interim evaluation report Despite an estimated real GDP growth of 10% an outcome of expansion on mining, 50% of the population live at below subsistence level. Agriculture remains the dominant...

Mid-term Evaluation Although agriculture is the dominant sector of Uganda's economy, less than 30% of the total arable area is presently under cultivation. The country suffered considerably in the...

The Kingdom of Swaziland is a small land-locked country situated in the south-eastern part of the African continent and almost entirely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa (RSA). The economy...

Evaluation purpose and scope Responding to an Executive Board request, it was decided that Country Portfolio Evaluations (CPEs) be carried out in countries where a substantial amount of experience...