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 671 - 675 of 808Strengthening Proximity Justice in Rwanda (SPJR)
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The aim of the programme is through the work of RCN Justice et Democratie to enable citizen participation in proximity justice; facilitate constructive dialogue and raise awareness about the rights and duties of the population, the law and the functioning of proximity justice; seek to safeguard the rights of vulnerable and marginalized groups in particular women’s access to justice and participation in decision making; promote the role of civil society and reinforce the capacity of CSOs to fulfil their mandate; provide support to local authorities to enable them to discharge their duties, including capacity building, knowledge transfer, coaching and materials; conduct and disseminate original research and engage decision makers with evidence-based advocacy; and support exchanges at local and national level between proximity justice and civil society actors.
Contribution to the protection of land rights
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The share of the Cambodian population having a legally protected access to land is socially balanced and has furthermore increased on the base of a spatial overall plan
Piloting the use of Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) in Tanzania and Kenya
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The general objective of the project is to attain secure and better use of rangelands and expand the role of women in selected pastoral communities in Kenya and Tanzania. This will be done by developing and testing a Participatory Rangeland Management system, working under the umbrella of the ILC Rangelands Initiative. The project will be developed around three clusters of activities: - development of the Participatory Rangeland Managementsystem; - development of local and national guidelines and strategies on Participatory Rangeland Management; - capacity building of local and national governments, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and communities to implement the system.
Demoratic Governance Facility,(DGF)
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Component 3/Sub-Component 3: Harnessing Natural Resources for Better Service Delivery and other development purposes benefiting the citizens.Objective: Ensure that the extractive industry benefits the development of Uganda as a whole. Outputs 1:Improved accountability and transparency to citizens in natural resource extraction.
Support for the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure (Component 1)
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The United Kingdom will provide financial support totalling GBP 3 922 159 over three years for the dissemination and effective and high quality implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (Voluntary Guidelines) which were globally endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security in May 2012 and whose implementation has been encouraged by the UK. Effective implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines is also the overarching purpose of the new G8 land partnerships negotiated in 2013 under the UK G8 Presidency. Component 1, which focuses on Myanmar, Nepal, and South Africa will focus on delivering country level workshops to raise awareness on the Voluntary Guidelines, increasing the ability of governments and citizens to understand and administer tenure rights and the processes involved in providing access to and transferring such rights, supporting multi-stakeholder national forums and the development of plans for mainstreaming the Voluntary Guidelines in participating countries.