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Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Program (ASAP)

The Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) channels climate finance to smallholder farmers so they can access the information tools and technologies that help build their resilience to climate change. Launched by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in 2012, ASAP was set up to provide a source of co-financing to scale up climate change adaptation across IFAD's portfolio.

ASAP aims to support the following five outcomes:

Improved land management and gender-sensitive climate-resilient agricultural practices and technologies
Increased availability of water and efficiency of water use for smallholder agriculture production and processing
Increased human capacity to manage short- and long-term climate risks and reduce losses from weather related disasters
Rural infrastructure made climate-resilient
Knowledge on climate-smart smallholder agriculture documented and disseminated

Purpose of support

Project and program implementation

Eligible countries and regions

Country eligibility is established by the IFAD Programme Management Department.

Eligibility criteria

For a detailed list of eligibility criteria please visit the ASAP entry in the Climate Funds Update.

Financial instruments

Grants

Co-financing requirements (if applicable)

ASAP funds are meant to co-finance IFAD projects using clear selection criteria and applying a results framework which contains 10 specific and measurable indicators of achievement. An important element of ASAP will be a knowledge management programme that will develop and share climate adaptation lessons and tools across IFAD‘s programmes and with key external partners. Based on a thorough monitoring and evaluation system, this is expected to demonstrate the value of investing climate finance in smallholders to the Green Climate Fund and other climate initiatives.

Decision-making information

The Governing Council is IFAD's highest decision-making authority. Each Member State is represented in the Governing Council by Governors, Alternate Governors and any other designated advisers.

The Executive Board is responsible for overseeing the general operations of IFAD and for approving its programme of work.

The Governing Council determines membership on the Executive Board and is presently distributed as follows:

List A: eight Members and eight Alternate Members (primarily countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development);
List B: four Members and four Alternate Members (primarily countries in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries); and
List C: six Members and six Alternate Members; two each in the three regional sub-divisions of List C Member States (developing countries).

Monitoring and reporting procedures

ASAP provides a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework which summarizes relevant adaptation results, indicators and corresponding investment options. Project design teams which are working with ASAP financing apply this M&E framework during the project design phase and select a subset of relevant indicators and targets (in alignment with the programming context) for integration with the results framework of the underlying IFAD investment.

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Climate objective

Adaptation, Mitigation, Cross-cutting

Sectors and themes

Agriculture, Forestry and Land-Use, Disaster risk reduction, Gender

Type of support provider

Multilateral

Type of recipient

Public entity at the national level

Fund size

ASAP has become the largest global financing source dedicated to supporting the adaptation of poor smallholder farmers to climate change, with committed funding of USD 305 million in the first phase from 2012-2015. A second phase of ASAP will run from 2017-2025, with a target of USD 100 million.

Co-financing required

Yes

Trustee or administrator

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) (UN Agency)

Contact information

https://www.ifad.org/web/guest/asap

m.astralaga@ifad.org; b.thomson@ifad.org

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Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Program (ASAP)

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