The document discusses improving risk assessment and mitigation in project design at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). It recommends that projects more comprehensively analyze risks such as conflict, natural disasters, policy failures, and implementation capacity issues. It also suggests several measures to strengthen risk assessment and mitigation, including using logical frameworks to identify risks and mitigation strategies, conducting vulnerability analyses for post-conflict and disaster-prone areas, avoiding complex components, clearly outlining partner coordination, ensuring sufficient project duration and implementation capacity, and closely monitoring high-risk projects through frequent supervision missions.

1.  Annual Performance Review and South-South Cooperation Event Chitra Deshpande Operational Policy Economist 1-6 November 2010 Nanning, China

4. APR project design can be improved in terms of the identified risk mitigating measures