almotamar.net - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has held in Amman, Jordan, a four-day workshop on the implementation of Yemen's project portfolio.

The workshop, which started on Monday, also intends to review the general conditions and adopted procedures for all IFAD projects and financing agreements.

Representatives of at least 30 relevant bodies take part in the workshop, including Economic Opportunities Fund (EOF), and Ministries of Planning and International Cooperation, Finance, Agriculture and Fisheries.

At the opening session of the workshop, Yemen's project portfolio Director Mohammed Abdul-Qader talked about the importance of applying the IFAD-adopted procedures and regulations of the financing agreement and the general conditions to implement projects, stressing that IFAD's all projects aim to eradicate poverty in rural areas.

The workshop will review many papers on the systems and bylaws of IFAD action policy, and administrative and financial procedures of the financing agreement as well as reviewing lessons learned from the IFAD successful projects in Dalea and Dhamar provinces, he said.

Abdul-Qader underlined the importance of intensifying efforts to take advantage of IFAD-funded projects and the need to improve performance and building capacities of implementation support plans for IFAD projects in Yemen.