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 36 - 40 of 809Agricultural Investments and Services Project (AISP)
General
The aim of the project was to improve the institutional and infrastructure environment for farmers and herders, with a strong emphasis on the livestock sector. Specifically, the project intended to increase the productivity of 61,000 farmers' households nationwide, particularly targeting livestock farmers, and reduce animal diseases that have a public health impact (e.g. brucellosis). With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project facilitated the development and adoption of the Pasture Law in 2009 by raising the awareness of decision makers and advising on legislative reforms. It further supported activities related to sustainable pasture management.
Soum Son Seun Jai - Community-based Food Security and Economic Opportunities Programme
General
The programme aims to ensure food security and income for 17,000 rural poor households in 225 villages among nine districts in the Sayabouly and Oudomxay. Specifically by strengthening farmer's organisations to be able to promote the community-based natural resource management and through the adoption of the proposed technologies and improved access to water. With regard to land and natural resource governance, the programme intended to provide support for increasing ethic villagers' entitlements, for the management of communal lands and to help in implementing secure tenure rights for the communities to protect them against land grabbing.
Foundation for Ecological Security
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The Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) enables people in rural India to access legal rights to share, self-govern, and conserve common land. FES is the largest organization focused on securing equal rights to common land (“the commons”) for India’s rural poor. The organization represents landless communities and organizes long-term secure tenure to common land. By establishing formalized rights and using a bottom-up approach to resource management, FES ensures that the commons are governed to support individual livelihoods as well as environmental sustainability. FES’s programs take a holistic approach to resource management that includes legal rights and financial resources for individuals. They also focus on strengthening village institutions and improving the productivity and long-term sustainability of natural resources.
PRIndex
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Overseas Development Institute is an independent think tank focused on international development and humanitarian issues. Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is an independent think tank focused on international development and humanitarian issues. ODI has partnered with Land Alliance to scale up PRIndex, the first global index that measures perceptions of property rights among communities. The aim of this index is to provide a global and national-level baseline of perceptions of property rights, that is comparable, cost-effective, and widely accessible. This baseline will provide the grounding for a global conversation and movement around securing the property rights of an estimated 2 billion people who currently lack them. Omidyar Network is funding ODI to scale PRIndex to reach an initial tranche of 35 countries, with aspirations to reach 140 countries in the years to come.
Protection of carbon pool and sinks within wetlands and protected areas of Panama
General
Wetlands perform a great number of socio-economic and ecological functions. Nonetheless, only few wetlands are under effective protection in Panama. UNDP envisages an array of measures designed to manage protected mangroves and other wetlands over an area of 13,800 ha. The measures are to be monitored and assessed with regard to their carbon dynamics. The project shall give greater priority to wetlands within Panama's national protected area system and will improve the capacity of the national environmental authority to manage protected areas.