To accomplish its fundamental goals of rural poverty eradication, ensuring food security and helping prevent famines and with a view to mobilizing resources for the implementation of the Fund's mandate, IFAD has made efforts to consolidate existing and create new partnerships and to broaden its outreach. The Fund maintains strategic partnerships with a number of Bilateral Donors, in particular with the major Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Key aspects of these strategic partnerships are contributions to IFAD core resources, the supplementary funds, cofinancing of IFAD projects, participation in the associate professional officer (APO) programme and participation in the Government of Québec's International Internship Programme.