IFAD and the International Centre for Rural Development, (IDRC) joined hands to use networking to improve the performance of their agriculture and rural development projects in a programme called the Knowledge Access in Rural Interconnected Areas Network, or KariaNet. The KariaNet approach, including collaborative research and capacity building, takes a page from a similar initiative between IFAD and IDRC in Asia and the Pacific called Knowledge Networking for Rual Asia/Pacific, or ENRAP.