This site provides access to IFAD’s Decision Tool for Rural Finance, designed to provide decision-making support for country program managers (CPMs), consultants, project staff and technical advisers who develop and implement rural finance projects. The Decision Tools are divided into five main sections: Introduction – understanding the fundamentals, a review rural finance basics and IFAD’s role in the sector; Assessing the market, how to analyze the status of a financial sector and identify the gaps; Designing a project, which defines the interventions in a rural finance project; Assessing and selecting project implementation partners, how to assess and select project implementation partners through a transparent, competitive process; Conducting performance monitoring and evaluation, how to effectively conduct ongoing and annual performance monitoring.