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Operations

Research Grants (as of February 1, 2010)
Amount (in US$)	Purpose	Approval Date
50,000	To support the International Conference on Food Security and Climate Change in Dry Areas being sponsored by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). The event will be held February 1-4 in Amman, Jordan.	27.01.2010
45,000	To sponsor the attendance of 25 students from developing countries at three conferences of the International Association for Energy Economics, which will be held this year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Vilnius, Lithuania; and, Calgary, Canada.	27.01.2010

Emergency Assistance Grants (as of March 10, 2010)
Amount (in US$)	Purpose	Approval Date
50,000	This grant, which was channeled through the Arab Red Crescent and Red Cross Organization, will help procure essential relief supplies and fund emergency operation for victims of flash floods that injured many and displaced hundreds of people in the Sinai Peninsula, the Red Sea port of Hurghada and the Aswan Governorate in southern Egypt.	10.03.2010
250,000	To help earthquake victims in Chile. See press release 03/2010.	03.03.2010
500,000	To help earthquake victims in Haiti. See press release 02/2010.	13.01.2010

1,162 grants, worth a total of US$476 million had been approved. Of this amount (as of end of January, 2010)
Amount (in US$)	Purpose
134 million	was made available as technical assistance.
63 million	was extended in emergency relief.
13 million	sponsored research and similar activities.
64 million	million was given to finance projects within the framework of the Fund's HIV/AIDS Special Account.
20 million	went to the Food Aid Special Grant Account.
78 million	was approved from the Special Grant Account for Palestine.
20 million	was a Special Contribution to IFAD.
84 million	was approved for the Common Fund for Commodities.