Nairobi,
13 June 2016 – Government representatives and agricultural development
specialists will gather in Nairobi 13-14 June to discuss the International Fund
for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) approach to decentralizing its operations
in Africa.
The workshop will focus on IFAD-funded operations in eastern,
southern, western and central Africa and will inform an independent evaluation
of IFAD's decentralization approach that is scheduled to be released in
December 2016. The Nairobi event is one of the four regional workshops being
organized by IFAD’s Independent Office of Evaluation (IOE) to capture feedback and
insights from stakeholders of IFAD-funded.
With
headquarters in Rome, Italy, IFAD began its decentralization process in 2003
and now has 40 country offices worldwide. The process echoes a trend in several
multilateral development institutions, such as the World Bank and the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which have strengthened
their presence in countries where they run operations. IFAD currently has 20
country offices in Africa, including a special regional service centre for
Eastern and South Africa including the Indian Ocean island states, based in
Kenya.
