International Fund for Agricultural Development (Laos)

IFAD began operations in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic in 1980. 

Our strategy is to ensure that poor rural people have increased opportunities for sustainable food and nutrition security and livelihoods. Together with government agencies and development partners, IFAD has identified areas where it has a comparative advantage and complements other donors’ activities.

The IFAD country strategic opportunities programme has three main objectives, focused on improving:

building capacities of government, beneficiaries and service providers;
engaging with women as key partners in all production and marketing systems;
constructing infrastructure needed by farmers, such as small-scale village irrigation, or for market access, such as farm-to-market roads;
forming farmer and producer common-interest groups;
building resilience to climate-related risks and improving capacity to adapt to climate change.