Using their own resources, IFAD and IsDB will jointly finance priority projects in some of their 57 common member countries over the next five years with a cofinancing target of $500 million ($250 million from each institution).
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Call remittance services essential during crisis time: IFAD
Rome, 16 June 2020 – With the significant decline in money sent home by migrants due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today called for governments across the world to…
$54.8 mn to improve living in BD coastal chars: IFAD
Rome, 8 August 2019 – More than 342,000 people in southeast Bangladesh living on coastal chars created by silt deposits will benefit from new financing for a project to reduce poverty and hunger and develop rural livelihoods. People living on…
Innovative impact fund to create jobs for rural youth
Rome, 15 February 2019 – An impact fund with an innovative approach for attracting much-needed capital to the rural areas of developing countries will be launched at the annual meeting of Member States of the International Fund for Agricultural Development…
Make hunger thing of past Pope Francis at IFAD annual meet
Rome, 14 February 2019 – Pope Francis set the tone for the 42nd session of the annual Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) by saying that hunger can be made a part of the world’s past,…
IFAD, BD invest US$109mn to boost rural household incomes
Rome, 1 August 2018 – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Bangladesh today signed a financing agreement to significantly increase incomes and food and nutrition security for 250,000 rural households in southern Bangladesh where the highest percentage of…