Project profile 
   • CARLEP is a follow-up project to MAGIP.
   • Is a seven years project (2016-2022).
   • It builds on prior and ongoing IFAD interventions. 
   Goal:
   • Sustainably  increase  smallholder  producers’  incomes  and  reduce  poverty 
    through commercialization of production by programme households. 
   Objective:
   • Increased returns to smallholders farmers through climate-resilient production 
    of  crops  and  livestocks  in  nationally  organized  value  chains  and  marketing 
    systems.
   IFAD in Bhutan
   • CARLEP continues to build on IFAD’s more than 35 years partnership with 
    RGoB.
   • CARLEP is the ninth Partnership from IFAD with RGoB and also the largest 
    financing project. 
   • During the last 36 years IFAD has provided a total of US$ 52.9 million for 
    investment in seven projects and programmes in Bhutan (as shown in next 
    slide). 
                   Project/Programme                  Duration Loan amount  Grant amount        Status 
                                                                  (US$ mill)     (US$ mill)
   Small Farmer Development & Irrigation                                                                             
   Rehabilitation Project                             1981-1989       6.9           0.6          completed 
                                                                                                                     
   Trashigang-Mongar Area Development Project         1987-1992       4.8            0            completed 
                                                                                                                     
   Punakha-Wangdue Valley Development Project         1989-1996       2.6            0            completed 
                                                                                                                     
   First Eastern Zone Agricultural Project            1992-1998       4              0             Completed
                                                                                                                     
   Second Eastern Zone Agricultural Programme         2000-2005       9.5            0             Completed
   Agriculture Marketing & Enterprise Promotion                                                                      
   Programme (AMEPP)                                  2006-2012      13.9           0.1           Completed
                                                                                                                     
   Market Access & Growth Intensification Project     2011-2016       8.5            2               On-going
   Total                                                             50.2           2.7
  Key performance indicators: 
  • 5336 direct beneficiary HH report at least 25% improvement in HH asset index,
  • 15% reduction in the prevalence of child malnutrition as compared to baseline 
  • ≥ 23 180 smallholder HH supported in coping with the effects of climate change 
  Targeting:
   28,975 HHs including indirect beneficiaries 
  Value chains:
  1. Diversity-Integrated  farming  system  with  fruits,  cereals,  pulses,  oilseeds, 
    tuber crops and fodder, backyard poultry and piggery production 
  2. Resilience-Rice  production  through  enhanced  water  use  efficiency  and 
    climate-resilient irrigation systems in 4 high potential southern Dzongkhags