This document provides a framework for making strategic choices about IFAD operations in a country to identify financing opportunities and facilitate results management. The central objective is to ensure IFAD country operations have a positive impact on poverty reduction. Wide stakeholder consultation and alignment with national poverty reduction strategies and plans are emphasized to ensure strong country ownership. The document then outlines the COSOP for 2011-2015, including corporate and project level indicators, alignment with national strategies, current and potential future IFAD projects in the country, and how these projects align with IFAD's strategic objectives and areas of thematic focus.

1. Framework for making strategic choices about IFAD
operations in a country, for identifying
opportunities for IFAD financing, and for facilitating
management for results.
Central objective: Ensure IFAD country operations
produce a positive impact on poverty
To ensure strong country ownership: wide
stakeholders consultation and alignment with
country’s poverty reduction strategy and planning
framework
COSOP 2011-2015

2. COSOP 2011-2015

3. Corporate indicators
COSOP
indicators
Indicators and targets at project level
FNML SSSJ SNRMP
People moved out of poverty -----
12,000 HH lifted out
of poverty (each HH
with a per capita
income of USD190 per
annum)
Progress in achieving the
MDG No. 1 by 2015 in the
two provinces (reducing
poverty rates by at least
5%)
Household asset ownership index -----
6,000 HH with an
assets index of at least
0.3
20% increase in income
and in the ownership of
household assets
Rural incomes have
increased by 25%
from 2008
Level of child malnutrition,
disaggregated for girls and boys
-----
Child malnutrition at
least 10% better than
the national average
and 35% or lower
20% reduction in child
malnutrition
Incidence of rural
malnutrition has
dropped by 50%
over 2008
Length of hungry season -----
6,000 HH with
improved food
security (measured as
a HFIAS score of 7.0 or
lower)
At least 35% households
with improved food
security
COSOP 2011-2015

4. IFAD's Strategic Objectives and areas of thematic focus COSOP
Investment projects
FNML SSSJ SNRMP
SO1: Increase rural people's productive capacities
1. Access to natural resources X (x) (x) X
2. Access to agricultural technologies and production services X X X X
3. Inclusive financial services (x) X --- ---
4. Nutrition (x) X --- ---
SO2: Increase rural people’s benefits from market participation
1. Diversified rural enterprise and employment opportunities X X X X
2. Rural investment environment (x) (x) --- X
3. Rural producer organizations X X X X
4. Rural infrastructure X X X (x)
SO3: Strengthen the environmental sustainability and climate
resilience of rural people’s economic activities
1. Environmental sustainability X --- --- X
2. Climate change adaptation and mitigation (x) X --- ---
COSOP 2011-2015

5. Alignment on 8th NSEDP
COSOP 2016-2020
 Enhanceeffectivenessof public governanceandadministration
Outcome1- Sustainedinclusive
economic growthwitheconomic
vulnerability(EVI)reducedand
consolidatedfinancial,legaland
humanresourcesto supportgrowth
Outcome2- Humandevelopmentenhancedandachievementof SDGsenabled
throughtheprovisionanduseof serviceswhicharebalancedgeographicallyand
distributedbetweensocialgroupswithprotectionanddevelopmentof Lao
culture,politicalstability,peace,order,justiceandtransparency
Outcome3- Reducedeffectsof
naturalshocksandclimatechangeand
sustainablemanagementof natural
resources
Cross-cutting Themes
 Localinnovationandutilizationof science,technologyandtelecommunications
 Promotegenderequality,andservicesto JuvenilesandYouth
OverallObjective: Reducedpoverty,graduationfromLeast
DevelopedCountryStatuswithsustainedandinclusivegrowth
throughpromotionof nationalpotentialandcomparative
advantages,effectivemanagementandutilizationof natural
resourcesandstronginternationalintegration

6. Alignment on MAF Agricultural Development Strategy 2020
Objective: Ensuring food security, producing comparative and
competitive potential agricultural commodities, developing
clean, safe and sustainable agriculture and shift gradually to the
modernization of a resilient and productive agriculture economy,
linking with rural development contributing to the national
economic basis.
Goal 1: Ensure nutrition and food security
Goal 2: Moving towards commercial agriculture with improved
access to markets and with improvement of farmers- groups,
producers and agriculture processing association
COSOP 2016-2020

7. Current projects:
SSSJ. (i) Integrated farming systems - (ii) Linkages to
markets. Ending 2017
FNML. (i) Food security and pro-poor market access
- (ii) Inclusive rural finance - (iii) Smallholder
adaptation to climate change. Ending 2019.
GASFP. (i) Food security and nutrition for rural
households - (ii) Climate change resilience. Ending
2021.
Livestock project. (i) Inclusive rural finance. Ending
2021.
COSOP 2016-2020

8. Upscaling: Nutrition; PPPPs benefiting poor
farmers; value chains; village development fund;
livestock health management….
Further improve synergies between programmes
New opportunities: Farmer Field Schools;
involvement of private sector; farmers’ groups;
ASEAN
Crop & Livestock products: NTFS/agro-diversity
products; organic products; value adding activities
at village level; storage; new cash crops
COSOP 2016-2020

9. IFAD's Strategic Objectives and areas of
thematic focus
COSOP
Investment projects
FNML SSSJ SNRMP GAFSP
LIVESTO
CK
SO1
1.
2.
3.
4.
SO2:
1.
2.
3.
4.
SO3:
2.
COSOP 2011-2015