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 626 - 630 of 808Support to the Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD)
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Support to the Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development, a local NGO working on capacity building at the grassroots through policy research, advocacy, and networking. The main focus is on the Land Tenure Regularisation Support Programme (LTRSP) by means of a Land Dispute Management Program to avoid disputes deriving from the land reform process.
Municipal Land Management
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Communal planning and administration as well as legal security have improved, based on a well-functioning cadastral register
Agricultural Value Chains Support Project (PAFA)
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The aim of the project is to improve incomes and livelihoods of 14,000 farmers households, specifically women and young people, in Senegal's groundnut basin. It intends to integrate farmers into profitable value chains based on local agro-ecological potential. Its most innovative feature is its focus on consolidating local value chains as instruments for fostering broad-based, self-sustaining and inclusive local development. Focusing especially on women and youth, it facilitates access to finance for harvesting, processing and packaging activities to allow better market placement. In line with the above, the project activities related to land governance support women's access to land.
Collaborative land use planning and sustainable institutional arrangement for strengthening land tenure, fores
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Avoid deforestation and environmental degradation by supporting the development of sustainable institutional arrangements promoting land policies and instruments involving local communities. Specific objective: Collaborative and equitable LUP and NRM are established, leading to the design and testing of new institutional arrangements, environmental policies and instruments based on more secure land tenure and community rights.
Addressing Human Rights Concerns of Indigenous Peoples in Resource Conflict Areas, Enhancing Capacities of Ind
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Nurture community participation and enhance capacities in oversight mechanisms in ancestral domain sustainable development and protection plans