To strengthen capacities of stakeholders in target countries and put governance processes in place to make progress in transitioning towards more sustainable agricultural sector production systems, compile related experience and knowledge and make it available to be shared globally.

Status of the project
CLOSED

• Conducted cross-sectoral multi-stakeholder consultative process to identify and address priority issues of sustainability in agriculture and natural resources management in Rwanda and Bangladesh.
• Supported and built capacity of national institutions to analyse evidence and trends in identified priority issues of sustainability in Bangladesh, Morocco and Rwanda.
• Supported and built capacity of national government and knowledge institutions to identify synergies, tradeoffs, and adjustment needs and options in support to more sustainable agricultural practices and to analyse related issues in programmes in Bangladesh, Morocco and Rwanda.
• Supported the identification of innovative practices to address selected key crosssectoral sustainability issues and ways to promote their dissemination in Bangladesh, Morocco and Rwanda.
• Held international/regional workshops to share experiences and lessons on working towards integrated sustainability at policy and practice levels and interim results.
• Compiled series of (peer-reviewed) articles on related key topics, contributing technical background knowledge to FAO.

• FAO’s Multipartner Programme Support Mechanism Medium-term final report 2014–17
• FAO’s Smarter investments Up-scaled development – FAO Multipartner Programme Support Mechanism Selected highlight of achievements and success stories