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THREE PHASES IN THE CREATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, AN AGENCY OF THE UN, ARE DISCUSSED AND ANALYZED. THESE INCLUDE THE 'AGENDA PERIOD' WHEN THE IFAD WAS PROPOSED AT THE 1974 WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE; THE NEGOTIATIONS PERIOD, 1974-77, 3 YEARS DURING WHICH THE AGREEMENT TO ESTABLISH IFAD STALEMATED; AND POST-1977, IN TERMS OF WHAT THE IFAD IS LIKELY TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE THIRD WORLD.

1International organizations — Personality — Legal capacity — Capacity to enter into contracts — Arrangements whereby one organization hosted by another — Modalities of hosting arrangement — Employment of staff members — Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994 — Arrangement for hosting by International Fund for Agricultural Development — Whether Global Mechanism a separate entityInternational organizations — Staff members — Appeals — International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal — Jurisdiction — International Fund for Agricultural Development — Acceptance of jurisdiction of Tribunal — Whether extending to complaints brought by persons employed to work on programme of body hosted by Fund — Complainant offered position by IFAD to work as programme officer with Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification — Whether staff member of IFAD — Redundancy — Decision not to renew contract — Grounds for challenge — Excess of authority — Procedure

The study analyzed the impact of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in rural and agricultural development in Rivers State, Southern Nigeria. The study was carried out in Jkwerre Local Government Area of the State. Questionnaire and Interview schedule were used to elicit information from ninety five farmers. Simple random sampling was used to select 3 communities namely: Ozuaha, Ubima and Apani. Data collected were subjected to descriptive statistics Findings from the study, revealed that the types of projects implemented by IFAD include: construction of classrooms (97.7%), training of women, men and youths in skills acquisition (93.1%), water borehole (98.9%) , renovation of schools (93.1%) and leadership training/seminar (89.7%). Effects of the projects on participating people and communities are: improvement in agricultural method, access to good drinking water, human capacity development, improvement of rural people's income and increased productivity. Non-payment of counterpart fund, lack of funds and counterpart fund not provided in time were the factors militating against the activities of IFAD in the study area. The study therefore, recommended that counterpart funds should be paid regularly and also provided on time by all participating IFAD Local Government Areas.

The study analyzed the impact of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in rural and agricultural development in Rivers State, Southern Nigeria. The study was carried out in Jkwerre Local Government Area of the State. Questionnaire and Interview schedule were used to elicit information from ninety five farmers. Simple random sampling was used to select 3 communities namely: Ozuaha, Ubima and Apani. Data collected were subjected to descriptive statistics Findings from the study, revealed that the types of projects implemented by IFAD include: construction of classrooms (97.7%), training of women, men and youths in skills acquisition (93.1%), water borehole (98.9%) , renovation of schools (93.1%) and leadership training/seminar (89.7%). Effects of the projects on participating people and communities are: improvement in agricultural method, access to good drinking water, human capacity development, improvement of rural people's income and increased productivity. Non-payment of counterpart fund, lack of funds and counterpart fund not provided in time were the factors militating against the activities of IFAD in the study area. The study therefore, recommended that counterpart funds should be paid regularly and also provided on time by all participating IFAD Local Government Areas.

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18International organizations — Staff — Appeals mechanism — International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal — Provision for challenge to judgment of the Tribunal by request to International Court of Justice for advisory opinion — Request for suspension of execution of judgment pending opinion — Admissibility of request — Powers of the Tribunal in the absence of express provisions in statute — Impossibility of tribunal assessing soundness of its own judgments — Imbalance in rights of the partiesInternational Court of Justice — Advisory jurisdiction — International staff cases — Challenge to judgment of International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal — Stay of execution of judgment pending opinion