IFAD is working in Los for the past 3 decades, to alleviate rural poverty and promote small farmers development.

1. Country Program Presentation
April 2015
Laos ICO
SEA Hub –
Hanoi, Vietnam

2. 2005 2007 2010 2013
Human Dev. Index 0.51 0.53 0.549 0.569
Agriculture value added (% of
GDP)
36.2 34.9 32.7 26.5
GNI per capita 472 887 1123 1661
Total population (million) 5.88 6.21 6.44 6.77
Rural population as % of
population
73 69 67 64
Poverty rate based on
population
30.7 27.6 26 23.2
Main crops production: rice, soybeans, sugarcane,
corn, tobacco
Nutrition facts: high malnutrition rate (40%),
particularly in rural areas
Population density – Economic Indicators
(source: WB, UNDP)

3. Poverty rate and Poverty density

4. Share of Agriculture in GDP
0.0%
5.0%
10.0%
15.0%
20.0%
25.0%
30.0%
35.0%
40.0%
45.0%
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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
GDP per capita (USD)
Agriculture contribution to GDP per capita (USD)
Agriculture contribution to GDP per capita (%)

5. IFAD funded operations

6. Portfolio
Closed Loans Active Loans Pipelined Loans
(1980-1985) Casier-Sud
Pioneer Agricultural Project
(2009-2016) Sustainable
Natural Resource Management
and Productivity Enhancement
Project
GAFSP (2016-2020): Global
Agriculture and Food Security
Program - 30 million USD
(1984-1986) Agricutural
Production Project
(2011 - 2017) Souum Son Seun
Jai - Community based Food
Security and Economic
Opportunities Programme
Livestock project (2016-2020)
(with ADB) - 10 million USD
(1988-1992) Rural Credit
Project
(2013-2019) Southern Laos
Food and Nutrition Security
and Market Linkages
Programme
(1991-1997) Xieng Khouang
Agricultural Development
Project
(2006-2014) Rural lovelihoods
Improvement Programme in
Attepeu and Sayabouri
(2007-2013) Northern Region
Sustainable Livelihoods
through Livestock
Development Project

7. Timeline overview –
COSOP (2011-2015), (2016-2020)
Projects 2005 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Rural livelihoods
Improvement Programme in
Attepeu and Sayabouri
Northern Region
Sustainable Livelihoods
through Livestock Dev
ProjSustainable Natural
Resource Management
and Productivity
Enhancement Project
SSSJ Project
FNML
Pipeline - GAFSP
Pipeline - Livestock
program

8. Active projects – main components
Project names Cost and Beneficiaries Project components
(2009-2016)
Sustainable Natural
Resource Management
and Productivity
Enhancement Project
Total project cost: US$ 37.8 million
Total IFAD financing: US$ 15.0 million
Directly benefiting 11,250 households
Cofinanciers: ADB
(i) Capacity building for agriculture
and natural resource sector
management
(ii) Implementation of agricultural
activity and commercialization
subprojects
(iii) Project management
(2011 - 2017) Souum
Son Seun Jai -
Community based
Food Security and
Economic
Opportunities
Programme
Total project cost: US$ 19.3 million
Total IFAD financing: US$ 14.0 million
Directly benefiting: 17,000 households
Cofinanciers: Gesellschaft fur Technische
Zusammenarbeit, World Food
Programme
(i) Integrated farming systems
(ii) Links to markets
(2013-2019) Southern
Laos Food and
Nutrition Security and
Market Linkages
Programme
Total: project cost: $18.82 million
Total IFAD financing: IFAD Grant: $9.72
million, ASAP Grant: $5.0 million
Directly benefiting: 10,500 households
Cofinanciers: Government of LAO PDR,
Banking and Private Sector, Beneficiaries
(i) Food Security and Pro-Poor
Market Access
(ii) Inclusive Rural Finance Support
(iii) Institutional support
(iv) Smallholder Adaptation for
Climate Change Component (New
Component)

9. Active projects – SNRMP
•Program Target group: 11,250 households would
benefit from the project
•The main target group comprises two primary sub-
groups: (i) poor farming households with proximity to
markets (primary in the lowlands; and (ii) poor farmers
in upland areas (mostly ethnic minority communities
practicing shifting cultivation)
* Total: project cost: $37.8 million
IFAD financing: $15 million
ADB: $20 million
Government of Laos: $2.8 million

10. Active projects – SNRMP
Components and Sub-components
A. Capacity Building in Sector Management
B. Agricultural Productivity and
Commercialization Subprojects
C. Project Management

11. Active projects – SNRMP (cont)
Component A – Capacity Building in Sector Management
Sub-
components
TARGET
(Design Doc)
ACHIEVEMENT
(to date)
Land evaluation
capacity building
-digital map preparation and interpretation skills in MAF,
NAFRI developed,
- participating PAFOs by providing GIS equipment,
training PAFO staff in GIS information management
procedures, procuring digital data sets to facilitate the
preparation of land suitability and land use maps at
district level
- a resource mapping office together with ‘ground
truthing’ of interpreted data sets
Environment and
social safeguards
requirements
-approving investment proposals for addressing overall
feasibility, social and environmental safeguards and
appraisal techniques
-training for the technical line agencies at provincial and
district levels provided
Investment
appraisal
- capacity building increased for staff of the Department
of Planning at MAF at the national level and DPI and
concerned line agencies in the provinces.
Producer
association
sustainability
- support for the development, operations,
management, and monitoring of farmer groups,
comprising technical training in their functional
responsibilities, in group management and maintenance,
in accounting and book keeping and participatory
monitoring of their impact.

12. Active projects – SNRMP (cont)
Component B – Agricultural Productivity and
Commercialization Subprojects
TARGET
(Design Doc)
ACHIEVEMENT
(to date)
The Project will fund a number of small and medium
sized development subprojects that will replicate or
expand previously implemented development
initiatives. Subprojects will have their own impact
consistent with the provincial and national
development objectives

13. Active projects – SNRMP (cont)
Component C – Project Management
TARGET
(Design Doc)
ACHIEVEMENT
(to date)
The Project will be managed by a Project
Management Office within the Planning
Department of MAF.
The Provincial Project Office will maintain an
administration office, manage day-to-day project
affairs at the provincial level and report to the
Provincial Coordination Committee

14. Active projects – SSSJ
* Program Target group: 17,000 rural households in
225 poor upland villages in Northern Sayabouri and
Oudomxay
* Total: project cost: $19.3 million
Total IFAD financing:
IFAD DSF Grant: $13.9 million,
World Food Program: $3.7 million,
GIZ: $0.4 million
Government of Laos: $0.8 million,
Beneficiaries: $0.3 million

15. Active projects – SSSJ (cont)
Components and Sub-components
A. Integrated Farming Systems
B. Links to Market

16. Active projects – SSSJ (cont)
Component A – Integrated Farming Systems
Sub-
components
TARGET
(Design Doc)
ACHIEVEMENT
(to date)
Improving
upland
conservation
and production
systems
- Support to production systems
- Support to farmers’ organisations
- Agricultural extension activities will be
undertaken
- Nurseries will be established at the district and
village levels
-Livelihood Initiative for Nutrition
-Climate risk management strategies
-Pilots on accessing degraded forest land for setting
up community-based leasehold forestry:
-Carry out 10 pilots on communal land tenure
-Cascade training by international and local
consultants to all main partners in programme
implementation
Livestock
development
-improved poultry husbandry for the highly
vulnerable
-market-oriented poultry production
-improved pig husbandry
Water
management
-Micro-irrigation schemes
- Village drinking water supply schemes

17. Active projects – SSSJ (cont)
Component B – Links to Markets
Sub-
components
TARGET
(Design Doc)
ACHIEVEMENT
(to date)
Village-access
roads
- The programme will finance the costs of
construction, including the costs of survey, design,
construction labour and contractors, supervision
and the cost associated with establishing and
training the VRMGs. - The programme will also
finance the cost of international TA, training for
DPWT staff, equipment and staff operating costs etc.
The existing staff should be able to handle the
proposed programme spread over the nine districts.
Improving
access to
markets
Support to farmers’ organisations
Access to market and technical information
Delivery of technical support
Establishment of processing groups
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) between farmers’
organisations and traders/exporters
Warehouse receipts and access to storage facilities
Improving access to finance through the village
banking system

18. Active projects – FNML
•Program Target Group: 10,500 households in
175 poor upland villages in target areas
* Main target group: Population of 175 target
villages
*Secondary target group: The private buyers of the
target products, Smallholders in the target areas
* Total: project cost: $18.82 million
Total IFAD financing:
IFAD DSF Grant: $9.72 million,
ASAP Grant: $5.0 million,
Government of Laos: $0.54 million,
Private sector and Partner Banks: $1.48 million,
Beneficiaries: $0.53 million

19. Active projects – FNML (cont)
Components and Sub-components
A. Food Security and Pro-Poor Market
Access
B. Inclusive Rural Finance Support
C. Institutional Support
D. Smallholder Adaptation for Climate
Change Component (SACCC) (New
Component)

20. Active projects – FNML (cont)
Component A - Food Security and Pro-Poor Market
Access
Sub-
components
TARGET
(Design Doc)
ACHIEVEMENT
(to date)
Preparatory
activities
Market identification
Calls for proposals
Village selection and capacity building at district level
Implementation arrangements.
Village
Programming
Livelihood analysis and PLUP
Farmers’ groups established and supported
Implementation arrangements.
Business
Partnership
Development
Business partnership development
An upscaling/extension of successful BPs might be
envisaged after the mid-term review
Legal assistance will be provided by village-based legal
volunteers who were trained by GAPE, a Pakse-based
NGO providing legal protection support
Each BDO will monitor BPs falling into his/her value
chain and will collect data that will be updated on a
yearly basis to assess investment impact
Implementation arrangements
Food and
Nutrition Security
Sustainable agriculture intensification: Nutrition
enhancement will be addressed through awareness-
raising on good nutrition practices, District Teams, Village
Nutrition Facilitators
Clean water access

21. Active projects – FNML (cont)
Component B - Inclusive Rural Finance Support
Sub-
components
TARGET
(Design Doc)
ACHIEVEMENT
(to date)
Group lending
to farmers
groups and
Enterprise
credit to value-
chains
adequate training in accessing necessary
financing to improve capacity to market and
successfully sell products are given to farmers
Building the
capacity of
partner banks
Technical assistance, banking and specialized
technological training in agricultural and
agribusiness lending technologies are provided
to partner banks
Investment
matching
grants
Grant financing by a donor to supply the
necessary seed capital to launch joint business
initiatives, which assists at least 50 applicants.
The matching grant facility will be disbursed on a
demand basis, but will follow a phased approach,
whereby ten villages will be targeted in each
programme year

22. Active projects – FNML (cont)
Component C - Institutional Support
Sub-
components
TARGET
(Design Doc)
ACHIEVEMENT
(to date)
Value chain
linkages
through
regular
interaction
between
stakeholders
Annual meetings of value chain stakeholders for
the main key products over the programme area
are promoted
Policy researches are carried out
Implementation modalities: format, organisation,
agenda development and facilitation of the value
chain multi-stakeholders’ platforms
Implementatio
n capacity and
system
development
Monitoring, knowledge management and
communication
Support to programme implementation: a
Programme Regional Coordination Office (PRCO)
in Attapeu to ensure programme coordination,
manage support that will encompass more than
one district, and to backstop districts and
provinces in the planning, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation and knowledge
management related to programme activities

23. Active projects – FNML (cont)
Component D – Smallholders Adaptation for Climate
Change (new)
Sub-
components
TARGET
(Design Doc)
ACHIEVEMENT
(to date)
Enabling
environment
for climate
change
adaptation
Community-
based
Adaptation
Investment
Plans

24. -
2,000,000
4,000,000
6,000,000
8,000,000
10,000,000
12,000,000
14,000,000
Approved amount Disbursement amount
Disbursement (cumulative)– active projects

25. Disbursement per year – active projects
-1,000,000
0
1,000,000
2,000,000
3,000,000
4,000,000
5,000,000
6,000,000
7,000,000
Attepeu&Sayabouri NRSLLDP SNRMP SSSJ FNML

26. Annual Performance Based Ratings
4.8
3.7 3.8 3.8
4.2
4.2
4.2 4.3
4
4.1
0.0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Portfolio average PSR ratings
Laos APR

27. Annual Performance Based Ratings
NRSLLDP
RLIPAS
SSSJP
FNML
SNRMPE
0
1
2
3
4
5
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
PSR ratings - Projects
NRSLLDP RLIPAS SSSJP FNML SNRMPE

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