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 46 - 50 of 809Western Sudan Resources Management Programme (WSRMP)
General
The programme aims to build up traditional rain-fed agriculture and improve economic conditions of 61,500 households in the three Kordofan states. The programme focuses on the importance of appropriate natural resource management and the access of poor households to productive services and fair terms of trade. On land and natural resource governance, the programme intends to develop a harmonised natural resources legislation passed and implemented for farmland, grazing land, forest land and water, addressing clear access and use rights and appeal and arbitration mechanisms. The programme further supports the mapping and demarcation of traditional stock routes, participatory GIS mapping and the foundation of Conflict Resolution Centres along stock routes.
Livestock and Market Development Programme (LMDP)
General
The programme aims to increase livestock productivity in the regions of Issyk-Kul, Naryn Oblasts, Batken, Jalal-abad to enhance climate resilience reflected in improved and equitable returns to livestock farmers, directly benefiting 154,075 households. On land and natural resource governance, the programme aims to support legal and regulatory reforms as well as sustainable pasture management. It provides support for the collection of pasture user fees and for boundary demarcation. The programme has been fruitful and thus is being expanded to more regions and more households in the LMDP II.
Forest Land Use and Governance in Indonesia
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The programme will address the challenges of deforestation and peat land degradation through investments to increase transparency and accountability, building capacity for spatial (land-use) planning, and engaging and mobilising the private sector in support of sustainable economic development. It does this by focusing on overcoming the critical governance failures for the sustainable management of forests and land-use
Property Rights Project
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This project focuses on improving the accuracy, accessibility and efficiency of Mongolia’s land titling and registration system to enable Mongolians to capitalize their land assets, make longer-term investments in their homes and businesses, and expand opportunities for generating income. The project’s main activities are: •Improving the formal system for privatizing and registering land rights; •Helping residents of lower income ger district areas privatize and register their land plots; and •Supporting leasing of pasture land to groups of herders in peri-urban areas, and providing key infrastructure and training to improve livestock productivity and sustainable use of rangeland resource.
Support to Development of Complementary Functions to the Belarusian Real Property Administrative System
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Support to NGO Land Reform making it possible for NGO Land Reform to continue its strategic work.