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 701 - 705 of 809Project to Support Development in the Manebe and Melaky Regions (AD2M)
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The aim of the project is to improve the access of 40,000 rural poor households to land and water resources in the Menabe and Melaky regions to optimize agricultural production and ensure sustainable growth of their income, while limiting migration to urban centres. Land and natural resource governance activities included supporting the establishment of 10 local land administration offices, the strengthening of regional land administration offices, and civic education and capacity building of farmers' organizations; supporting regional and commune level land use planning processes and the issuing of land certificates; and strengthening national institutions (Technical Unit of the National Land Policy Programme and the National Land Observatory).
Legal Assistance for Kyrgyz farmers
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The NGO Legal Assistance for Rural Citizens (LARC) helps farmers and rural poor to claim and protect their tenure rights in rural Kyrgyzstan
Community-based Forestry Development Project in Southern States (Campeche, Chiapas and Oaxaca) (DECOFOS)
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The project aims to improve the livelihoods and incomes of 18,000 extremely poor forest households in Campeche, Chiapas and Oaxaca located in the southern states of Mexico. Special attention is given to strengthen the capacity of the communities to better manage their natural resources, enhance conservation practices such as promoting increase of vegetation cover and put in place mechanisms to cope with impact of climate change. Land and natural resource governance related interventions included territorial planning and the generation of legal documentation giving more land tenure security to the agrarian public through workshops, courses and technical assistance.
Agricultural Sector Development Programme - Livestock: Support for Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Development (ASD
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The programme aims to improve food security and increase incomes among 460,840 households in the areas of Manyara, Tanga, Pemba, Unguja, Dodoma and Singida. Specifically, the programme works to improve the livelihoods of the poorest agro-pastoralists and pastoralists. It strengthens the capacity of livestock communities and enhances the delivery of livestock development services to smallholders. Further it aims to improve marketing systems and infrastructure for livestock products and strengthen national and local government institutions to provide services to the livestock subsector. On land and natural resource governance, the programme stresses the importance of land-use planning particularly with respect to assuring tenure, resolution of conflicts over land and water among competing interest groups and the sustainability of the natural resource base. It adopts land-use plans which will establish clear land-use demarcation and protect and monitor water resources. The programme supports village land use planning and rangeland management through the Collaborative Initiative on Land Issues (CALI). The goal is that on the mainland at least 72 villages will have proper land-use plans.
Smallholder Tree Crop Revitalization Support Project (STCRSP)
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The project includes poor smallholders who cultivate less than two ha of land and rely on subsistence farming, as well as households headed by women, young people, war-wounded and disabled people among 15,000 households in the Lofa county. It aims to increase the quantity sold and the price received by poor farmers for cocoa and coffee by rehabilitating plantations, improving access to markets and by strengthening the Ministry of Agriculture and/or private extension services as well as Farmers-based Organisations. The rehabilitation of 315 km of farm-to-market roads and 15,000 ha of cocoa/coffee plantations, using a value chain model, aim at generating employment opportunities, mainly benefitting youth and women. The project aims at improving land tenure security, as the two partners for tree crop rehabilitation (Bio United and cooperatives) will be in charge of formalizing the farmers’ ownership over their plots. A memorandum of understanding with the project coordination unit (PCU) will be approved and signed by the farmer, the traditional authorities, and the district agricultural officers (DAOs) and county agricultural coordinator (CAC).