The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development is a network of 38 bilateral and multilateral donors, international financing institutions, intergovernmental organisations and development agencies.
Members share a common vision that agriculture and rural development is central to poverty reduction, and a conviction that sustainable and efficient development requires a coordinated global approach.
Following years of relative decline in public investment in the sector, the Platform was created in 2003 to increase and improve the quality of development assistance in agriculture, rural development and food security.
// Agriculture is the key to poverty reduction
Agriculture, rural development, and food security provide the best opportunity for donors and partner country governments to leverage their efforts in the fight against poverty.
However, the potential of agriculture, rural development and food security to reduce poverty is poorly understood and underestimated.
Cutting-edge knowledge of these issues is often scattered among organisations, leading to competition, duplication of efforts, and delays in the uptake of best practices.
// Addressing aid effectiveness
Therefore the Platform promotes the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, the Accra Agenda for Action for sustainable outcomes on the ground, and the Busan Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation.
Increasing aid to agriculture and rural development is not enough. Donors must work together to maximise development impact.
// Adding value
The Platform adds value to its members’ efforts by facilitating the exchange of their development know-how, which consolidates into a robust knowledge base for joint advocacy work.
Working with the Platform, members are searching for new ways to improve the impact of aid in agriculture and rural development.
- An increased share of official development assistance going towards rural development
- Measurable progress in the implementation of aid effectiveness principles
- Greater use of programme-based and sector-wide approaches
- More sustainable support to ARD by member agencies
// Vision
The Platform endorses and works towards the common objectives of its member institutions to support the reduction of poverty in developing countries and enhance sustainable economic growth in rural areas.
Its vision is to be a collective, recognised and influential voice, adding value to and reinforcing the goals of aid effectiveness in the agricultural and rural development strategies and actions of member organisations in support of partner countries.
// Evaluation
Between August and October 2014, the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development underwent an Evaluation. The evaluators interviewed across board focal points (FPs) of member organisations, partner institutions, staff of the secretariat and key agricultural and rural development experts from different organisations involved in the Platform initiatives. KIT reviewed Platform documentation of the past 10 years, online resources and services to complete the assessment.
According to the report, the change in overall global development objectives of the Post-2015 agenda and its sustainable development goals (SDG) will only reiterate the relevance of the Platform’s work in coordinating donor activities. Agriculture and rural development are incorporated in many of the SDGs. The targeted development of appropriate policies and innovative strategies will depend on increased, cross-sectoral cooperation which the Platform stands for. The achievement of the Platform’s objectives of advocacy, knowledge sharing and network facilitation functions remains to be a crucial contribution to agriculture and rural development.
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Resources
Displaying 566 - 570 of 808The Rainforest Foundation UK
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Promoting poverty alleviation, and improving land tenure security and governance in the Congo Basin through community based mapping, legal capacity building and documentation of customary tenure and governance. This programme is a stand-alone forestry programme. It is ongoing but has been suspended in CAR.
National Agriculture Project (NAP)
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The goal of the project is to sustainably raise smallholder farmers' productivity through improved water resources and integrated agricultural production. The project is national in scope, targeting 81,292 poor and food-insecure households with particular attention to households headed by women, which will receive priority in land allocation in new irrigation zones. It supports the intensification of irrigated and rain-fed crop production through the provision of fertilizers, agrochemicals, improved seeds, conservation agriculture trials. Land and natural resource governance related activities include the promotion of small livestock investments for the lowest-income earners and women with limited access to land. The project will set-out guidelines for agricultural development aiming at optimizing production and productivity through an integrated watersheds management.
Heart of Borneo' Forest Conservation Initiative, Succow Foundation Portion/Restoration of Peatswamp Forests in
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The project objective is to conserve forests as natural carbon stores and to establish carbon sinks through reforestation in the province of West Kalimantan. Working in collaboration with a forestry operation in the boundary zone of the national park, the project seeks to identify forest areas highly worthy of preservation and to designate these zones protected areas. Degraded forest areas between Betung Kerihun and Danau Sentarum National Parks that hitherto have been separated are to be rejoined through reforestation efforts at the community level. The project supports the capacities of governmental and non-governmental actors in their endeavours to develop and implement local REDD demonstration measures in Indonesia.
Sustainable Land Use Planning and Management Project
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The federal planning institutions use instruments of integrated land-use planning.
Strengthening Access to Land and Property Rights to All Citizens of Bangladesh.
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The objective is to strengthen access to land and property rights for all sections of the community. The specific purpose is the modernisation of land records management. Activities include: policy review in a particpatory approach, creation of land record, record of traditional and customary land rights, simplified litigation mecanisms, establishment of land tribunals, simplification and dissemination of land law, assessment of institutional roles, training in land management, public awareness.