Workshop “Towards a farmers’ forum at IFAD’s Governing Council” Rome, Palazzo dei Congressi, 14-15 February 2005

WORKSHOP REPORT

WORKSHOP “TOWARDS A FARMERS’ FORUM AT IFAD’S GOVERNING COUNCIL”

Palazzo dei Congressi Rome 14-15 February 2005

WORKSHOP REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Concluding Statement of the Workshop

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Workshop Report

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Background The Workshop A Process, Not an Event A Bottom-Up Approach A Tripartite Process An Instrument of Capacity Empowerment Inclusiveness Building on Existing Forums and Avoiding Duplication Implications for IFAD Concluding Statement Next Steps

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Annex I: List of Participants Annex II: Workshop Agenda

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Concluding Statement of the Workshop On 14 and 15 February 2005, IFAD, in partnership with the International Federation of Agricultural Producers, the Network of Peasant Organizations and Producers in West Africa (ROPPA) and Via Campesina, organized a workshop as a side event of the Twenty-Eighth Session of the IFAD Governing Council. This workshop gathered in Rome 34 representatives of farmers’ organizations from all continents to discuss with IFAD staff and colleagues of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations proposals put forward by ROPPA and IFAD’s Policy Division for a farmers’ forum as a permanent side event of the IFAD Governing Council. Workshop participants agreed on the following concluding statement, which was presented to the President, the Vice-President and the Assistant President, Programme Management Department, of IFAD on 15 February 2005.

Premise The participants in the workshop share with IFAD the fundamental objective of overcoming rural poverty through the economic, social and political empowerment of the rural poor themselves and of their organizations. They agree with and support the overall project of creating a farmers’ forum for consultation and dialogue on ways to “enable the rural poor to overcome their poverty” and on IFAD operations.

The Participants Reached the Following Consensus The farmers’ forum will be: •

an ongoing, bottom-up, process – not a periodic event – spanning IFADsupported operations on the ground and policy dialogue;

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a tripartite process involving farmers’ organizations, governments and IFAD;

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a space for consultation and dialogue focused on rural poverty reduction;

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an instrument for accountability of development effectiveness, in particular in the area of empowerment of rural poor people and their organizations; and

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an interface between pro-poor rural development interventions and the process of enhancing the capacity of farmers’ and rural producers’ organizations (including organizations of artisanal fishers, pastoralists, landless workers and indigenous peoples).

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The farmers’ forum will: •

be guided by the principles of inclusiveness, pluralism, openness and flexibility;

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build on existing forums where possible and avoid duplication in these cases; and

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respect existing organizations and create new spaces where needed.

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The forum process will start with national-level consultations that will feed into regional or subregional meetings. The latter will then shape the content of, and participation at, the farmers’ forum at the IFAD Governing Council.

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The forum process should feed into IFAD’s governing bodies.

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The forum’s success will depend on IFAD’s capacity to enhance country-level consultation with farmers’ organizations and contribute to their capacitybuilding needs.

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Participants recommend, in particular, institutionalizing engagement with farmers’ organizations in key IFAD operational processes (projects, and country and regional strategies).

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Workshop Report Background Smallholders and other resource-poor rural producers make up the overwhelming majority of the world’s poor. Their economic, social and political empowerment is key to poverty reduction and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. This empowerment largely depends on the capacity of rural poor people to form their own organizations to represent and negotiate their interests vis-à-vis other actors and institutions engaged in: (i) agricultural markets; (ii) rural development planning and resource allocation; (iii) the delivery of services, including research and extension; and (iv) policy processes at local, national and international levels. IFAD has worked with grass-roots farmers’ groups and community-based organizations in most of its projects and field-level operations since the beginning of its operations. A focus on the grass roots is central to its mandate and to its strategic framework for 2002-2006, which has as its first objective to strengthen the capacity of the rural poor and their organizations, including their capacity to influence institutions, policies, laws and regulations of relevance to rural poverty reduction.1 However, such a focus has not necessarily lent itself to a process of strengthening social movements and peoples’ organizations so that they can engage with and influence national policy processes and institutions. In fact, a focus on the grass roots in the context of individual projects might at times have created dimensions of dependency that have gone counter to the empowerment and permanent capacitybuilding of national organizations and movements. IFAD has recognized that it should involve smallholder farmers’ and other rural producers’ organizations more fully in all its operations, including in project design and implementation, the articulation of regional and country strategies, policy dialogue and advocacy activities with other development actors at all levels. Such involvement would increase the Fund’s knowledge of the lives and livelihoods of rural poor people, and thus help it align its interventions and policies to their real needs. “We look at rural poor people from the point of view of their capacities, from what they have, not from what they do not have. Our question is: How can we support the capacity and resources of small farmers and rural workers to generate income and production directly?” – G. Howe, IFAD In the present context of globalization and interdependence, building the capacity of rural people’s organizations to develop informed and strong positions, devise communication and lobbying strategies, and actively participate in and influence key strategic forums and decision-making processes is an imperative. IFAD intends to contribute to making this a reality. One such contribution could be to provide a platform for farmers’ and rural producers’ organizations, from both industrialized and developing countries, to 1

Strategic Framework for IFAD 2002-2006, pages 8-11.

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discuss and share experiences and concerns, learn from each other, build bonds of solidarity and articulate positions and recommendations that, in turn, could be presented to key policy decision makers. Such a platform could be provided by organizing an annual farmers’ forum as a permanent side event of IFAD’s Governing Council. The idea of such a platform – or forum – was conceived in July 2004 when a number of leaders from African farmers’ organizations met with the President of IFAD. The idea was further explored in October 2004 in a forum held at IFAD with eight representatives of farmers’ organizations.2 The workshop described in this report was the third step towards realizing such a forum. Many other platforms with similar objectives already exist. However, as an intergovernmental institution that brings together representatives of many key global players in setting both national and global economic and development assistance frameworks, IFAD can provide a privileged space for interaction. The knowledge and insights deriving from such interaction could, in turn, influence IFAD’s own operations and policies. The Workshop With this concept in mind, IFAD organized a two-day workshop on 14 and 15 February 2005, as a side event of the Governing Council, to discuss proposals to establish such a forum submitted by IFAD’s Policy Division and the Network of Peasant Organizations and Producers in West Africa (ROPPA), and responses to these proposals by the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) and Via Campesina. A total of 34 representatives of farmers’ organizations from all over the world participated in the workshop, where they considered what directions, scope and objectives a farmers’ forum should have, and how it should be organized and operate. (The list of workshop participants is contained in Annex I and the workshop agenda in Annex II.) “We obviously do not have any decision-making power regarding IFAD directly, but we can indicate to IFAD what should be done to help us solve our problems.” – N. Fall, ROPPA, Senegal The following pages discuss the main issues that emerged during the workshop and delineate the areas in which consensus was reached, in particular, in determining areas of common interest; defining common objectives, expectations and conditions; and establishing modalities of operation and governance. From the outset, participants shared the fundamental objective of overcoming rural poverty through the economic, social and political empowerment of the rural poor themselves and of their organizations. In addition, they supported the overall project of creating a farmers’ forum for consultation and dialogue on IFAD’s mandate and operations.

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All Nepal Peasants Association; National Dialogue of Farmers’ Organizations in Cameroon; Confederación Nacional de Mujeres del Campo (Dominican Republic); IFAP; Kenya National Federation of Agricultural Producers; Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Philippines); ROPPA; and Via Campesina.

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“A farmers’ forum at IFAD’s Governing Council could be a powerful instrument to institutionalize and strengthen our cooperation at different levels, from the village to the national to the international, where more and more decisions are taken that impact on the livelihoods of the rural poor. A farmers’ forum could also provide an opportunity to share knowledge, experiences and positions among ourselves as well as a space to communicate with Governors from our Member States.” – P. Roy, IFAD A Process, Not an Event Workshop participants agreed that the forum should not be seen as a periodic event but as a continuous process beginning at the national level and carried out through the regional and global levels. The presence of the forum at the Governing Council would merely be the end of a long process that fed into IFAD’s governing bodies, one element of a broader change process that must materialize at local, national and regional levels, and through which the organizations of the rural poor would actually be empowered. In this way, forum representatives at the Governing Council would not be stating personal positions but rather those evolving out of a long and inclusive process. In this regard, workshop participants discussed whether the forum should be called a ‘side event’, which implied that it was something happening on the sidelines and thus of minor value or impact. “The forum is an expression of diversity … it should provide broad representation without claiming to speak for the entire rural environment.” – J. Castillo, National Union of Autonomous Regional Farmers’ Organizations, Mexico Although a farmers’ forum could not be formally part of a governing body meeting, participants acknowledged, it could be open to the Governors. Creating a space in the Governing Council to formally address the Governors would require authorization by IFAD’s Executive Board and was a possibility that could be explored in the future. “The forum should be a political space where farmers’ and other grass-roots organizations are not just there on sufferance but can genuinely take these spaces as their own and have authentic input.” – N. Wiebe, National Farmers’ Union, Canada The forum should focus on IFAD operations and try to make them more responsive to the livelihoods of the rural poor. It was important, participants stressed, to regard the forum not as a validation of IFAD positions but as an ally that helped scrutinize and change the Fund’s perspectives. It should also act as a ‘watchdog’ of IFAD programmes at the national, subregional and regional levels — not a monitoring group per se, but a participating evaluating entity that would help IFAD understand what it was doing well, what it was not doing well, and how it could do better. These evaluations should reach, and challenge, the Governing Council.

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A Bottom-Up Approach Workshop participants agreed that national and subregional or regional consultations should precede the forum in order to aggregate local experiences, concerns and proposals. This should be a ‘bottom-up’ process that started at the country level. It was noted that rural poverty reduction concerns varied greatly from country to country, as did IFAD operations. This diversity must be acknowledged and understood at the national level and then brought to the subregional or regional level where it could be shared and aggregated. “Why don’t we start from the national level this time, build up the capacities of those organizations, prevent ourselves from just ratifying the same old perspective by saying that only those who agree with their governments will be dealt with? Let the discussion start at the national level so that those who come to represent the national, subregional or regional levels at the IFAD Governing Council are truly reporting what their people have said. The Governing Council will then be listening to what millions of people are saying. This is the best approach.” – M.O. Arigbede, Union of Small and Medium Scale Farmers of Nigeria (USMEFAN), Nigeria A Tripartite Process Workshop participants emphasized the important challenge facing the forum, which was to contribute to building stronger partnerships between IFAD, governments and farmers’ organizations – partnerships based on specific project or policy processes at national, subregional or regional levels. Moreover, they stressed that if governments were expected to respond to what rural poor people were saying, as represented in the forum, they needed to be given the opportunity to have these messages reiterated at different levels so that they were not hearing them for the first time at the global level. Each level in which forums took place needed to include governmental, subregional or intergovernmental representations so that key messages were reconfirmed. This information flow was critical as a process and as a means for compelling governments to respond concretely and appropriately. “National governments are strategic partners whether we like it or not. We have to change the way they work, the way they think, and make them understand that rural populations, rural farmers, are the people they need to move out of poverty. This can only happen with strong national farmers’ organizations that are able to counter the public domain with a strong private domain.” – A. Vashee, Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions, South Africa In this context, it was also emphasized that an extremely important challenge for IFAD’s operations at the national level was to increase the depth and scope of its cooperation and planning with farmers’ organizations. This would represent a significant shift, as IFAD had previously cooperated and conducted its planning with governments. Cooperation at the national level would not be a particularly timeconsuming or complex task. It would require requesting programme managers to collaborate with farmers’ organizations in those countries, a collaboration that would

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also include facilitating farmers’ engagement in policy processes at local and national levels. “When you come to IFAD, you will certainly hear good policy positions, but that is not what we are proud of and that is not what we are really interested in strengthening; you are the people, and the farmers behind you, who need to have strong policy positions. It is you who need to have the voice in the policy-making process, and one of the key questions that IFAD is asking itself and asking you is: how can we help that come into being?” – G. Howe, IFAD While participants recognized that IFAD might be one of the more progressive multilateral agencies, they also understood the limitations within which it had to work. Here, IFAD’s major concern would be to help build the capacity of civil society organizations, particularly farmers’ organizations, to engage in dialogue with governments. “As an international organization, we are not allowed to do something that the government does not allow us to do. This is clear and this is the limit. So the question is: how can IFAD work within that limit and also work with governments to expand that limit?” – G. Howe, IFAD An Instrument of Capacity Enhancement Workshop participants underscored the need for the forum to address capacitybuilding for rural farmer’s organizations as a priority issue. The empowerment of smallholders and other resource-poor rural producers was the key to food security and poverty reduction. This empowerment largely depended on the capacity of rural poor people to form strong organizations to represent and negotiate their interests. The forum must recognize that many farmers’ organizations lacked the capacity to articulate farmers’ problems and organize their members and the farmers they represent to enable them to work with multilateral agencies. In this regard, participants felt that IFAD should direct most of its energy into building the capacity of national and regional farmers’ organizations. Indeed, the forum’s success would greatly depend on IFAD’s capacity to strengthen country-level consultation with farmers’ organizations and contribute to their capacity-building needs. Workshop participants also acknowledged that capacity-building related not only to national and local rural producers’ organizations, but also to government employees and decision makers at all levels. They needed to enhance their knowledge and understanding of people’s concerns and aspirations and of the impacts of policies on their livelihoods. Exchange and consultation with peoples’ representatives would contribute to that end. “If, for instance, rural people feel strongly that market access has become very important, they have a duty, a right and a responsibility to try to infuse this into the way IFAD itself and the Governing Council perceive what is important to human livelihoods.” – M.O. Arigbede, USMEFAN, Nigeria

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All these new demands on national-level people’s organizations also included requests for financial, technical and human resources support. If the forum was to succeed, grow and develop into an entity fully able to inform all players of the aspirations of IFAD and its partners, capacity enhancement was critical in all of these processes. Inclusiveness The forum should be inclusive of the whole range of farmers’ and rural producer movements, participants advised, including pastoralists, fishers and landless peasants. This inclusiveness reflected IFAD’s focus on rural poverty reduction and on the economies of the rural poor, which included a variety of productive activities, not only farming. “We said we would create a space that would involve already existing organizations but that would also recognize that none of the existing organizations is open to all of the diversity that exists in the rural world. What we are interested in doing is creating a space that will allow those who are now excluded to enter into the debate.” – A. Desmarais, Via Campesina, Canada On the farmers’ side, forum participants should be representatives of legitimate, accountable, membership-based and legally recognized institutions or organizations. As an intergovernmental institution, IFAD could only work with entities that were legally recognized in their countries. The workshop recommended that participating organizations should have an open and gender-sensitive membership that did not discriminate on any basis and a broad focus on all sectors relevant to the rural poor. It should also have in place functioning and healthy democratic governance structures and be free from government control. Participants recognized, however, that in some countries the existing and legitimate farmers’ and other rural producers’ organizations did exclude some groups, for example, disenfranchised and landless people. Therefore, opportunities needed to be proactively created to include groups that were organized differently – or that were not represented at all. Participants also felt strongly that, since farmers had organized themselves in particular blocks at the regional level, especially in Africa, they should be able to carry on in those organizational frameworks. However, some countries were excluded from these blocks. Consequently, mechanisms needed to be put in place to ensure that there was openness at the regional level and that every country was represented fairly. Moreover, it was recommended that IFAD respect the regional groupings/structures established by the farmers’ movements themselves and not impose its own groupings of countries. On IFAD’s side, the active involvement of the Programme Management Department, the regional divisions and the country programme managers was imperative. Country programme managers, in particular, should be willing to forge partnerships with farmers’ and other rural producers’ organizations in the context of project activities, policy dialogue and advocacy in the countries of their responsibility. 6

“We also suggest that we should link country consultation to key IFAD country policy processes so that the people themselves are able to determine what IFAD does in their different countries.” – M.O. Arigbede, USMEFAN, Nigeria On a broader scale, the workshop indicated that the forum should also be open to IFAD’s key institutional partners. As an international institution, IFAD collaborated not only with governments and civil society but also with other international institutions and with cooperating institutions – such as the United Nations Office for Project Services and regional development banks – that supervised most of its projects in the field. “Producers’ organizations have evolved over time and also as a result of new inputs and contributions. It was mainly in West Africa in the wake of the drought that we began seeing new kinds of organizations emerging, which we called “village development organizations”. These are widespread nationally and in fact have now become common throughout the African continent. To overcome the many difficulties that producers’ organizations have encountered throughout their history, these organizations have tried to organize themselves, while respecting diverse identities and cultures and responding to social concerns. Social and cultural aspects are very important to African producers. At the same time, farmers have realized that they do need to move into policy areas if they are to have their point of view taken into account when policies and programmes are being developed for our continent. They have also realized that they need to strengthen regional organization and identity, as the regional level is becoming very important in the definition of policies for Africa as a whole. ROPPA in West Africa and PROCARD in East Africa are good examples of regional organization. Similar initiatives may be under way in other regions of the world.” – N. Fall, ROPPA, Senegal Building on Existing Forums and Avoiding Duplication The workshop agreed that farmers’ organizations already had – at national but also at regional and even global levels – a number of opportunities to meet and to discuss among themselves and with partners. Therefore, the forum should serve to add value to already existing meetings and platforms and seek to avoid duplication. “I have a very serious concern about the space to exchange experiences, ideas and innovations on rural poverty reduction. We already have legitimate and sustainable national farmers’ and regional farmers’ organizations. My worry is: are we going to duplicate existing mechanisms for farmers rather than strengthen the existing ones?” – A. Vashee, South African Confederation of Agricultural Unions, South Africa It was noted that many farmers’ organizations rightfully took great pride in what they had accomplished, often under extremely difficult circumstances. These accomplishments should be fully acknowledged. At the regional level, and particularly in Africa, many farmers’ organizations had worked extremely hard to

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organize themselves around particular systems that they felt confident could work. IFAD needed to respect and work within those systems and open them up as much as possible so as to build the capacities of groups that were not organized and help them speak for themselves. No matter what differences might exist, participants agreed, respect must be given to what others had done and were doing. The forum must begin with what existed so that each region and each group could work in its own way. The challenge facing the forum would be to enlarge and extend existing structures and build their capacity to be more inclusive. Since excluded groups might not be interested in joining existing organizations, the forum would need to open space for them to organize themselves in their own way. Implications for IFAD The forum should deal with concrete experiences, projects, policies, market relations and their interactions. It should not limit its focus to a specific project belonging to one or more of these categories. Rather, it should link what was going on at project, field or household level with the broader policy framework. One of the points made is that IFAD has not, so far, been very good at working with farmers’ organizations. . . . For a long time its projects and programmes focused on developing farmers’ groups, but new farmers’ groups . . . that had to do with serving the requirements of IFAD projects. Are we going to see from now on IFAD operations at the national level cooperating with the existing farmers’ organizations and planning together with these organizations?” – L. Kariuki, National Federation of Agricultural Producers, Kenya At the same time, participants noted, the forum and the processes associated with it would have to deal with IFAD’s operations and policies in order to create a channel of influence on IFAD and its operations at field level. With respect to IFAD’s country operations, the forum should advocate for broad consultation with farmers’ organizations and for strong capacity-building to support them. “If IFAD is an institution of relevance to rural poverty reduction, then, according to our own strategy, an organization of smallholder farmers and resource-poor rural producers should be able to influence it. We believe that a forum is a means – although not the only one – to influence IFAD, its own policies and its actions in the countries where it operates.” – J. Audinet, IFAD At the national level, IFAD had country programme managers assigned to supervise specific countries, although not necessarily stationed there. These managers had relationships with the respective governments and with some farmers’ organizations. IFAD could consider establishing a policy that recognized the need for country programme managers to establish more and better relationships with farmers’ organizations in the countries they managed. Alternatively, IFAD could establish committees, with members from IFAD, farmers’ organizations and government, to oversee national-level projects and policies.

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“How do we engage better with IFAD at various levels of activity so that farmers’ and other organizations that IFAD is mandated to serve have a better opportunity to provide their input? For example, relating to IFAD’s success in reaching its beneficiaries with programmes, loans and capacity-building, and suggestions for improvement and critical analysis of progress.” – J. Wilkinson, International Federation of Agricultural Producers, Canada The need to have a farmers’ forum for dialogue, consultation and exchange of experiences was unequivocally agreed. This was a given, and what needed to be done was to embed the forum into a process that brought the consultation from a national level up to IFAD headquarters. “The success of the forum will also be dependent on the capacity of IFAD to institutionalize engagement with farmers’ organizations in its key operations: the articulation of its regional and country strategies and the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of its projects and programmes.” – S. Haralambous, IFAD Concluding Statement Workshop participants agreed on a concluding statement, reproduced in full as a preface to this report. This statement was presented to the President, the Vice-President and the Assistant President, Programme Management Department, of IFAD on the final day of the workshop. It summarized the consensus participants had reached during the two-day meeting on the nature of the forum, the principles that would guide it and some conditions relating to forum organization and governance. Next Steps Following the meeting, a steering committee was formed to prepare the operational proposal for the farmers’ forum. It consists of the National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (CONTAG) in Brazil, IFAP, ROPPA, Via Campesina, the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fishworkers (WFF) and the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP). These organizations nominated focal points who constitute – together with IFAD staff – the steering committee (two focal points each – one woman and one man – from IFAP, Via Campesina and ROPPA; one focal point each from WFF, WFFP and CONTAG). IFAD has communicated to the steering committee the following set of options for the operational arrangements of the forum: •

It is proposed that a farmers’ forum should be held at the IFAD Governing Council every other year and that national- and regional-level consultations be carried out between each forum.

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To keep the momentum, the first farmers’ forum should take place in February 2006 (although it is recognized that this will preclude the full bottom-up process that will subsequently apply).

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No more than 40 representatives of farmers’ organizations should participate in the forum. 9

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Depending on the financial resources available, regional or subregional consultations should be held to involve higher numbers of representatives.

These points will be the basis of the consultative process to draft an operational proposal. In the coming months, steering committee members will receive a first draft of the farmers’ forum operational proposal and will be requested to comment on it and make proposals for its amendment. The amended operational proposal will then be presented to IFAD management. If endorsed by IFAD management, the proposal will be submitted to the IFAD Executive Board in September 2005 for its approval and allocation of grant resources.

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ANNEX I

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Representatives of Farmers’ Organizations Ms Nemesia Achacollo Member International Co-ordinating Committee Via Campesina Federación de mujeres campesinas de Bolivia “Bartolina Sisa” (FNMCB “BS”) Calle Constitución No. 105, esquina Av. Perú, zona de la Terminal de Buses, La Paz Casilla de correo: 4679, La Paz Bolivia Tel: (+591) 2 2283913 E-mail: [email protected] cc: [email protected] cc: [email protected] Mr Pedro Aguila Tejera National Association of Small Farmers, ANAP Cuba Tel: (+53) 7 832 4541/46 Fax: (+53) 7 833 4244 E-mail: [email protected] (direct Leonardo Chirino) c/o ([email protected]) (Mario La O) c/o ([email protected] (Departamento Relaciones Internacionales) c/o Maria de Carmen Barroso, Funcionaria ANAP Nacional: [email protected] Mr Badrul Alam President Bangladesh Krishok Federation 12/17 Shantinagar Bazar Road, 3rd floor Dhaka 1217 Bangladesh Tel: (+880) 2 9559356 Fax: (+880) 2 9559356 / or 880 2 9565506 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Mr Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede National Coordinator Union of Small and Medium Scale Farmers of Nigeria, USMEFAN 9, Adenuga Street, New Bodija Estate, Kongi Layout, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria Tel: (+234) 2 8107367 Fax: (+234) 2 8107367 Tel/fax: (+234) 2 8103720 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] 11

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Ms Elizabeth Atangana National Dialogue of Farmers’ Organizations in Cameroon, CNOP-Cam PO Box 7445 Yaoundé Cameroon Tel/Fax: (+237) 2234190 Cell: (+237) 9825940 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Djibo Bagna Secrétaire Général Coordination Nationale de la Plateforme Paysanne du Niger, CNPFP/N c/o Association pour la Redynamisation de l’Élevage au Niger, AREN PO Box 12758 Niamey 11729 NY Niger Tel: (+227) 732352 / 736622 Cell: (+227) 934148 Fax: (+227) 736621 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] c/o AREN [email protected]; or [email protected]; or [email protected] Mr Bal Ram Banskota All Nepal Peasants Association, ANPA Nepal Tel: (+977) 1 4412332 / 1 4413839/1 4414724 Fax: (+977) 1 4278084 / 1 4288404 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Xhavit Borici Chairman Association of Seed Potato Producers Albania c/o Artur Galanxhi Tel/Fax: (+355) 4 267544 Cell: (+355) 68 2053310 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Jaime Castillo Ulloa National Union of Autonomous Regional Farmers’ Organizations, UNORCA Calle Juan De Dios Arias 48 Col. Vista Alegre. Delegacion Cuauhtemoc Mexico, D.F. C.P. 06860 Tel: (+52) 55 57415065 / 55 57400486 Fax: (+52) 55 57415065 Tel/Fax UNORCA: (+52) 55 57400486 / 540 0486 / 541 5065 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 12

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Mr Ibrahima Coulibaly President Association of Professional Producers of Mali, AOPP Bamako BP 3066 Mali Tel: (+223) 228 6781 / 223 676 1126 Fax: c/o AOPP: (+223) 224 6119 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Ms La Maria da Graça Amorin Directora de la Secretaria de Reforma Agrária y Medio Ambiente National Confederation of Agricultural Workers, CONTAG SMPW Quadra 01 Conjunto 02 Lote 02 71.735 010 – Núcleo Bandeirante/DF Brazil Tel: (+55) 61 2102 2288 Fax: (+55) 61 2102 2299 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Ms Annette Desmarais Via Campesina 3056 - 18th Avenue, Regina, Saskatchewan Canada, S4T 1W6 Tel: (+1) 306 359 1923 (home) / 306 585 5066 (office) E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Mr Gerard Dornboos President Agriculture and Horticulture Organization of the Netherlands, LTO PO Box 29773 2502 LT The Hague The Netherlands Tel: (+31) 70 3382701 Fax: (+31) 70 3382810 E-mail: [email protected] cc: [email protected]

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ANNEX I

Mr Vicente Facco Secretary National Confederation of Agricultural Workers CONTAG SMPW Quadra 01 Conjunto 02 Lote 02 71 735 010 – Núcleo Bandeirante/DF Brazil Tel: (+55) 61 2102 2288 Fax: (+55) 61 2102 2299 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Mr Ndiogou Fall President Network of Peasant Organizations and Producers in West Africa, ROPPA s/c FONGS, BP: 269 Thiès Senegal Tel: (+221) 951.12.37 Fax: (+221) 951 20 59 E-mail: [email protected] Ms Arianna Giuliodori Confederazione Nazionale Coltivatori Diretti, COLDIRETTI Via XXIV Maggio, 43 00187 Rome, Italy Tel: (+39) 06 46821 E-mail: [email protected]

Ms Sarala Gopalan National Institute of Agriculture 2 Yashwant Place, Chanakya Puri New Delhi 110021 India (h) 138, Vasant Enclave, New Delhi 110 057 India Tel: (+91) 11 2688 9002 / 611 9172 / 11 51663556 9 (home) Fax: (+91) 11 2688 2467 / 5466 / 11 2615 1065 (200105) E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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ANNEX I

Mr Samba Gueye Conseil National de Concertation et de Coopération des Ruraux, CNCR Route de Front de Terre x Av. Bourguiba prolongée lot 63 Dakar Senegal Tel: (+221) 825 5665 / 827 6088 / 824 4874 Tel: (+221) 825 5665 / 832 5304 (home) Mobile: (+221) 569 5541 Fax: (+221) 827 4101/832 1102 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Mr Mohamed Idris President Central Agricultural Co operative Union PO Box 14 Gizah 12211 Arab Republic of Egypt Tel: (+20) 2 761 2865 / 2835 Fax: (+20) 2 760 9256 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Ms Mercy Karanja Development Policy Coordinator International Federation of Agricultural Producers IFAP 60, rue Saint Lazare 75009 Paris France Tel: (+33) 1 4526 0553 Fax: (+33) 1 4874 7212 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Leonard Nduati Kariuki National Chairman Kenya National Federation of Agricultural Producers KENFAP Personal Address: PO Box 14187 – 00800 Nairobi Kenya Tel: (+254) 20 444 9342/7458 Fax: (+254) 20 444 7459 E-mail: [email protected]

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ANNEX I

Mr Philip Kiriro President East African Farmers’ Union c/o KENFAP PO Box 43148, Langata Road/Mbagathi Junction Langata, Mbagathi Road Nairobi Kenya Tel: (+254) 20 4451691 (office); 20 608324 / 500036 Fax: (+254) 20 608325 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] cc: [email protected] Mr Fernando Ariel Lopez Rodriguez Presidente Comisión Nacional de Fomento Rural, CNFR Salvador Garcia Pintos, 1138 Montevideo Uruguay Tel: (+598) 2 200 3519 / 2 204 0133 Fax: (+598) 2 208 9526 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Mr Chebet Maikut Chairman Uganda National Farmers Federation, UNFFE PO Box 6213 Kampala Uganda Tel: (+256) 41 230 705 / 340 246/8/9 Cell: (+256) 774 09414 Fax: (+256) 41 254 495 / 258 556/230 748 or (+256) 41 230748 (personal) E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Mr. Raul Q. Montemayor General Secretary Federation of Free Farmers Cooperatives 41 Highland Drive, Blue Ridge 1109 Quezon City Philippines Tel: (+63) 2 647 1093 Fax: (+63) 2 647 1451 E-mail: [email protected]

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Ms Alicia Munoz Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Rurales e Indígenas, ANAMURI Sazie 1915 Santiago de Chile Chile Tel: (+56) 2 672 0019 / 2 697 3217 / Fax: (+56) 2 697 3217 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Paul Nicholson Via Campesina Spain Fax: (+34) 9 462 52641 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Mr Tejo Pramono Federasi Serikat Petani Indonesia, FSPI Jln SMA 14 No. 15 A Dewi Sartika Jakarta, Djakarta Indonesia Tel: (+62) 21 808 82492/815 8739626 Fax: (+62) 21 808 82492 E-mail: [email protected] Mr José Adan Rivera Castillo Farm Workers Association, ATC Rotonda Metrocentro 120 mts. abajo, contiguo al CIPRES Managua Nicaragua Tel: (+505) 278 4575/278 0616 Fax: (+505) 278 4575 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Ms Caroline Trapp President Federation of Swedish Farmers Lantbrukarnas Riksförbund Klara Östra Kyrkogata 12 S 105 33 Stockholm Sweden Tel: (+46) 8 787 5000/8 787 5003 Fax: (+46) 8 787 5397/8 217 445 E-mail: [email protected] cc: [email protected]

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Mr. Ajaykumar Manubhai Vashee President Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions PO Box 1709 Pretoria 0001 South Africa Tel: (+27) 12 322 6980 / (+260) 2 615272 (home) Fax: (+27) 12 320 0557 / (+260) 2 617767 (home) Cell: (+260) 97806806 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (secretary) Ms Nettie Wiebe National Farmers Union, NFU PO Box 89 Delisle, Saskatchewan Canada S0L 0P0 Tel: (+1) 306 493 2569 Fax: (+1) 306 493 2592 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Jack Wilkinson President International Federation of Agricultural Producers, IFAP 60, rue Saint Lazare 75009 Paris France Tel: (+33) 1 4526 0553 Tel/Fax Canada: (+1) 7 05 64 73 623 Fax: (+33) 1 4874 7212 E-mail: [email protected]

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…………………………………………………………………………….. Representatives of Fisher Organizations Mr Pedro Avendaño Garcès Executive Director World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fishworkers, WFF 102, Bank Street, Suite 202 Ottawa,Ontario K1P 5N4 Canada Tel: (+1) 613 235 3474 Fax: (+1) 613 231 4313 Cell: (+1) 613 868 5213 E-mail: c/o WWF info@foro pescadores.com (direct) Contact: Pierre Verreault, Représentant du Conseil Canadien E-mail: pverreault@ccpfh ccpp.org (WFF/Canada) [email protected] (personal) …………………………………………………………………………………………

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO Staff Mr Thomas Price Senior Programme Officer (Civil Society) Resources and Strategic Partnerships Unit Technical Cooperation Department FAO Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome Italy Tel: (+39) 06 570 53852 Fax: (+39) 06 570 54385 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Kevin Gallagher Senior Programme Development Officer Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) Monitoring and Coordination Service Field Operations Division Technical Cooperation Department FAO Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome Italy E-mail: [email protected] 19

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Staff of IFAD supported projects/programmes Mr Carlos Annibal Mermot IFAD Institutional and Policy Support Programme to Reduce Rural Poverty in the MERCOSUR Area Edificio MERCOSUR Luis Piera 1992 – Piso 2 11.200 Montevideo Uruguay Tel: (+598) 2 413 6411/2 413 6381 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Alvaro Ramos IFAD Institutional and Policy Support Programme to Reduce Rural Poverty in the MERCOSUR Area Edificio MERCOSUR Luis Piera 1992 – Piso 2 11.200 Montevideo Uruguay Tel: (+598) 2 413 6411/2 413 6381 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Espedito Rufino de Araújo Project Director Sustainable Development Project for Agrarian Reform Settlements in the Semi-Arid North East (Brazil) Rua Francisco Alves, 84 CEP 50070-490 Ilha do leite, Recife, Pernambuco Brazil Tel: (+55) 81 3301 1353 Fax: (+55) 81 3301 7388 E-mail: [email protected] …………………………………………………………………………………………

International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD Staff Mr Jean Philippe Audinet Policy Coordinator Policy Division External Affairs Department IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2305 E-mail: [email protected]

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Mr Tawfiq El Zabri Country Programme Manager Near East and North Africa Division Programme Management Department IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2242 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Pablo Glikman Country Programme Manager Latin America and Caribbean Division Programme Management Department IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2481 E-mail: [email protected] Ms Sappho Haralambous Policy Coordinator Policy Division External Affairs Department IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2238 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Gary Howe Chief Development Strategist Policy Division External Affairs Department IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2262 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Sana Jatta Country Programme Manager Programme Management Department Asia and the Pacific Division IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2446 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Shyam Khadka Senior Portfolio Manager Programme Management Department IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2388 E-mail: [email protected]

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Mr Roberto Longo Programme Officer Eastern and Southern Africa Division Programme Management Department IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2002 E-mail: [email protected] Ms Sylvie Marzin Country Programme Manager Western and Central Africa Division Programme Management Department IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2337 E-mail: [email protected] Ms Gunilla Olsson Director Policy Division External Affairs Department IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2581 E-mail: [email protected]

Special guests Mr Lennart Båge President IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2200 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Cyril Enweze Vice President IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2202 E-mail: [email protected]

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Mr James Carruthers Assistant President Programme Management Department IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2419 E-mail: [email protected] Mr Phrang Roy Assistant President External Affairs Department IFAD Tel: (+39) 06 5459 2518 E-mail: [email protected]

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WORKSHOP AGENDA

Sunday, 13 February 2005 Pre-registration at Hotel San Bernard.

Monday, 14 February 2005 8:40

Departure from hotel by bus to Palazzo dei Congressi

9:00

Introductory session Welcoming remarks – Mr Phrang Roy, Assistant President, IFAD (10 minutes) Tour de Table – Participants introduce themselves Presentation and approval of the workshop agenda. Logistical information. Presentation on IFAD – Mr Gary Howe, IFAD (15 minutes) Questions and answers (30 minutes)

10:00 In-session coffee break 10:15 Reflections on a farmers’ forum as a permanent side event of IFAD’s Governing Council Why a farmers’ forum at IFAD? IFAD interest and expectations – Mr Jean Philippe Audinet, IFAD (15 minutes) Presentation of the ROPPA proposal – Mr Ndiogou Fall, ROPPA (15 minutes) Question and answers on presentations from IFAD and ROPPA (15 minutes) IFAP interest and expectations – Mr Jack Wilkinson, IFAP (15 minutes) Via Campesina interest and expectations – Via Campesina representative (15 minutes) Questions and answers on presentations from IFAP and Via Campesina (15 minutes) General discussion on respective interests and expectations: Is there a convergence of interest, objectives, conditions and modalities? Identification of issues for working group sessions (45 minutes) and registration for working groups A, B and C 12:30 Lunch 24

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14:00 Working group session (three mixed working groups, 15 participants each) First session: defining common objectives and conditions for a farmers’ forum at IFAD (2 hours) 16:00 In-session coffee break During the coffee break, meeting of the rapporteurs/chairs of working groups to share emerging consensus. If convergence, continue to second session of working groups. If major disagreements, return to plenary session 16:15 Second session: Issues and options on modalities, organization and governance (1 hour) 17:30 Plenary session: working group reports and general discussion: Is there a convergence on objectives and expectations? What are the issues and options on modalities and organization? (1 hour) 18:30 Cocktail 19:30 Bus to Hotel San Bernardo 20:00 Evening working session of the steering group (IFAP, Via Campesina, ROPPA and IFAD) at Hotel San Bernardo on a consensus proposal on objectives and expectations

Tuesday, 15 February 8:15

Departure in bus from Hotel San Bernardo to Palazzo dei Congressi

8:45

Plenary session: synthesis of first day’s results: consensus on objectives and summary of issues and options for forum organization and governance

9:15

Working group session on the main issues and options regarding forum organization and governance and the preparation process (two working groups)

10:30 In-session coffee break 10:45 Plenary session: report of the two groups and discussion on organization and governance 12:00 Presentation of workshop conclusions 12:30 Closing statement

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