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 586 - 590 of 809Heart 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.
Supporting the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fis
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The project will identify and help to strengthen the innovative approaches that countries have adopted to translate the VGGT principles into practice, helping them set an inspiring example for others, and fostering a space for a two-way dialogue between countries and global level. The Phase II project activities and interventions are based on three thematic areas that correspond to the three main outputs: a) tenure governance processes to support responsible investments in agricultural land are enhanced and associated capacities strengthened; b) tenure rights and their governance processes are supported and strengthened at country/regional level; and c) the capacities of vulnerable and marginalized groups to improve tenure governance are strengthened.
Private Sector Development Support Project
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The project aims to improve investment climate in Togo, including in a New Free Zone, and to an improved performance of targeted micro and small businesses. To achieve these outcomes, the project will support the Land Registry by providing technical assistance to help simplify and shorten the time required to register property. In particular, it will finance the following activities: Organizational diagnostic of the Direction des Affaires Domaniales et Cadastrales; Support to the implementation of the recommendations of the organizational diagnostic (technical assistance, capacity building, equipments); Review of laws and regulations governing the registration of property.
Time for Action on People-Centred Land Governance: implementing ILC's 2016-2020 strategy
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The action aims at implementing the first half of ILC’s strategy 2016-2021 to realise land governance for and with people at the country level, responding to the needs and protecting the rights of those who live on and from the land, i.e. to bring about change at the country level. While the action is global across the 66 countries where ILC members operate, a special focus is on implementing National Engagement Strategies in 18 focus countries. National Engagement Strategies may also be developed in 7 countries including Honduras, Argentina, Niger, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, Tanzania and Mongolia.
Mekong Region land governance
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The Mekong region Land Governance programme aims at supporting farming families, especially those belonging to ethnic minorities, in securing their equitable access to, and control over agricultural land, forests and fisheries. The programme aims at strengthening the effectiveness of reform actors through learning, alliance building and regional cooperation with a view to assisting in the emergence of more equitable and sustainable policies and practices in the region.