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 611 - 615 of 808Smallholder Agricultural Development Project (SADP)
General
The project aims to support 15,000 smallholder farmers' households to exploit opportunities to increase their productivity and diversify into market-oriented agriculture. The project area covers four of Lesotho’s 10 districts: Berea, Leribe, Butha Buthe and Mafeteng. Emphasis is placed on identifying commercially viable activities that can be replicated and successfully scaled up. Land and natural resource governance activities include the preparation and implementation of three year Agricultural Investment Plans and the formulation of land use and settlement plans.
Emergency Food Security and Rural Development Programme (EFSRDP / PUSADER)
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The aim of the programme was to support the improvement of food security of approximately 121,000 households in the most food-insecure rural areas in the regions of Tahoua, Maradi and Tillabery, by restoring and developing their production capacity. The programme gives special attention to poor farmer and herder households that are highly exposed to recurrent food and livestock crises in the three targeted regions by developing and re-vegetating 400 ha of land and creating two grazing paths of about 90 km in the department of Aguié in the Maradi region. The programme supported the development of two pastoral areas of 300 ha in the department of Madarounfa (Maradi region) and the rehabilitation of 3000 ha of degraded lands. Land and natural resource governance related interventions provided support for negotiations of social agreements by which the owners were willing to allocate parcels to the most vulnerable groups. In the Maradi region this type of land agreements allow women's access to arable land.
Local Institution Participation towards Livelihood Empowerment of the Mangyan Indigenous Peoples of Occidental
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Livelihoods development, community empowerment, building the capacity of local institutions, sustainable natural resources and ancestral domain management amongst Mangyans.
Consolidating Indigenous Peoples Forest Corridors through Sustainable Ancestral Domain Management
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Foster cooperation among indigeneous communities, dvt organisations and local municipalities to help ensure the viability and self-governance of ancestral domains and ultimately towards recogniition on indigeous and community-conserved areas
Albanian-Norwegian hydrographic information project (ALNO_HIP)
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The project will contribute to competence and capacity building for the Albanian Hydrographic Service (AHS) and the Military Geographical Institute (MIG). Both institutes are led by the Ministry of Defense. AHS is responsible for depth mapping and navigational marking (buoys, lights, etc.). Sea measurement activities are currently underfunded, with a lack of equipment and usable boats. Activities The Norwegian Mapping Authority is assisting AHS with the acquisition of multibeam solutions for processing and management of data. The project will also provide for the education of hydrographs, as well as the procurement and installation of two tide gauges. MGI is responsible for the production of sea and land maps, as well as the national geodetic network. MIG has a lot of good skills, but lacks modern equipment. Much of the support for this institute will be acquisition of production systems for ENCs and paper charts. Necessary upgrades to the network, server capacity and workstations will be included. A "production line" will be established that includes both institutes.