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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Displaying 661 - 665 of 808Land Administration II
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The objective is to foster the process of achieving land tenure security in the project area through the provision of efficient and accessible cadastral and land administration services. Activities focuse on: (a)cadastral and land regularization, (b) maintenance of cadastral information and municipal services, and (c) legal reforms and institutional strengthening.
Policy Coordination and Dialogue for Reducing Poverty and Inequalities in Semi-Arid North-east Brazil (Dom Hel
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The project aims to reduce rural poverty and inequality in the semi-arid north-east of Brazil through improving policy dialogue, territorial planning and coordination of public policies and programmes, directly benefitting 74,000 households. The core project area includes 129 municipalities in nine Territories of Citizenship in seven states of Brazil’s north-eastern semi-arid region. Participants in state-level projects co-funded by IFAD in the states of Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba, Piaui and Sergipe will also benefit from innovations and successful experiences tested by the project. On land and natural resource governance, the project intends to encourage and support the creation of young people' groups who want to settle as agricultural producers through the National Land Credit Programme (Programa Nacional de Crédito Fundiário, PNCF) or other land access policies. The project will support the access of the youth to the land programmes.
“Mainstreaming of the National Land Consolidation Programme (MAINLAND)”
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The MAINLAND project is supporting the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy (MAFWE) to build technical and administrative capacity to implement the National Land Consolidation Programme and the provisions of the National Land Consolidation Strategy adopted by the Government in 2012 for mainstreaming the National Land Consolidation Programme through (i) developing expertise and strengthening the land consolidation capacities of local stakeholders, (ii) raising public awareness about the benefits of land consolidation; and (iii) implementing the first round of land consolidation projects. The proposed approach to land consolidation is integrated, combining activities addressing small holding sizes and reducing land fragmentation with other local rural development needs, such as design and construction of new agricultural infrastructure, while preserving the environment. In supporting the land consolidation programme FAO respects a few key principles: respect all legitimate tenure rights (not just formally registered ownership rights); include safeguards – participatory process, fair valuation and accessible options for appeal; and the cornerstone principle that participants should be as well off after the project as before.
Restoring Peatlands in Russia - for fire prevention and climate change mitigation II
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Within the framework of the project, the most important dry-laid peatlands in Central Russia are identified and rewetted using various methods. In addition, Russian partners will be trained so that they can independently implement the method of ecological rewetting in the future. Possibilities of sustainable use of rewetted marshland ("Paludiculture") are being tested and piloted where possible. The project thus makes an important contribution to the reduced risk of fire, protection of the climate and restoration of a unique biodiversity.
Land governance with local communities living in protected areas
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This project seeks to promote the incorporation of responsible land tenure governance guidelines with local communities living in protected areas and their areas of influence. This will be achieved in partnership with key national entities (National Natural Parks, Land Restitution Unit and Rural Agricultural Planning Unit) and WWF-Colombia.