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.
Members:
Resources
Displaying 86 - 90 of 808Land Management and Administration (GESTERRA)
General
Improving national capacity to deliver quality land governance; promoting an integrated vision on land administration and land use/management, that responds to the needs of all land users, providing secure and clear rights (DUATs) which can then facilitate new investments choices and decisions and enhance food security.
Park management
General
One focus of investments is the restricted area national park, which also includes a marine part. Furthermore, development measures and additional components will be implemented in the parks, resulting from the increased tourism and increasing wildlife pressure. In order to improve the quality of resource management in northern Namibia, the establishment of an ecological institute will be supported, which will carry out both ecological monitoring and ranger training. Overall, it is planned to support the Namibian Ministry of the Environment, by providing infrastructure, equipment and consulting services.
Land Registration & Cadastre System for Sustainable Agriculture Project
General
The project objective is to expand farm privatization to enable more rural people to become independent farmers and take management decisions in response to market forces, by providing them secure land use rights certificates distributed in a transparent and fair manner, and providing essential complementary support services. Project components include: (i)Farm Privatization and Land Registration (i.e. privatize 300 Collective and State Farms (CSFs) in a transparent and fair manner, issue at least 75,000 secure land use certificates, and establish a uniform, parcel-based system of registration of land use rights by further supporting the central office of the State Land Committee in Dushanbe, upgrading four land offices to Regional Land Registration Offices (RLROs), establishing three new RLROs, and training staff to provide the required services). The project will finance equipment for surveying, mapping, digitization software and hardware, and training.activities include farm restructuring, reform of cadastre, surveying, titling and registration; (ii)Farm Information and Irrigation Support, to provide rural citizens with detailed information on the privatization process, including the land law, rules and regulations governing the allocations, and individual’s rights to farmland. It will train project area rural people and also support nation-wide campaigns through mass media programs, and booklet preparation and distribution, with a systematic approach to reach youth and women; and (iii)Project Management and Policy Support, by supporting the capacity development within the President’s Economic Advisor’ Office to enable Tajikistan to address national policy issues associated with scaling up the Farm Privatization Support Project approach. The policy support will include the establishment of a small policy unit, as well as technical assistance and training, to address land administration, cotton, water management, and other policy issues related to farm privatization. The policy support will also address the special issues associated with the de facto land redistribution during the civil war.
Transnational Nature Reserves - Great Limpopo Park V & VI
General
The FC contribution aims at the establishment of an efficient park management and at an economically as well as ecologically sustainable development of the Limpopo National Park (LNP). The objective is to create a stable environment for private investment in tourism.
Support of land reform II
General
Access to land gets improved as well as productive and sustainable land use.