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 371 - 375 of 809Geographic information for environment, climate change and EU integration – LAKI III
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The main purpose of the project is to prepare geographic information for environmentally sensitive areas of Romania, as needed for environmental monitoring and reporting, for dealing with effects of climate change, for integrated planning and for implementation of the EU Directive on harmonization and exchange of geographic information domestically and across national borders and for climate related disaster preparedness and mitigation. Background The LAKI II project approved for EEA funding 2009 -2014 focused on production of maps and photomaps, as well as on establishment of detailed terrain model using laser scanning, for about 50 000 km2. This project (LAKI III) will focus on preparation of a digital terrain model for larger parts of Romania related to prevention and mitigation of floods. Due to limited financial resources NACLR does not have a digital terrain model of high/average precision, required to achieve cartography, topography, geodesy, photogrammetry and remote sensing in the entire country. The overall objective is to enhance the capacity of NACRL to prepare geographic information needed for environmental monitoring and reporting, for dealing with effects of climate change, for integrated planning and for implementation of the EU Directive on harmonization and exchange of geographic information domestically and across national borders. New data for significant parts of the country will be produced, including environmentally sensitive areas and flood risk areas. The project will improve public access to geographic data via Internet, inter alia, to support the implementation of development and environmental policies. Activities 1.Preparation of Digital Terrain Model for climate related disaster preparedness and mitigation through Laser scanning of 50000 sq.km: 2.Procurement of a solution for safe storage and efficient distribution of terrain data; 3.Publicity campaign and activities to strengthen the bilateral co-operation; 4.Capacity building, transfer of knowledge and training
Support to reform of urban land management
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Improve land governance. The types of activities planned include an inventory of the legislative and regulatory framework, the development of a land and state code, the revision of the legal framework for the transmission and secure exchange of authentic deeds in electronic format , the establishment and conservation of notarial deeds in electronic format, the development of new methods of cadastral surveys - the design of the database of a computerized land register, Inventory of State assets - Support for the implementation of an interface between the land block and the tax block.
Action for Access and Management Rights to Land and Natural Resources of Small Farmers in Northern Thailand
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Overall Objective: To contribute to the adoption of laws promoting equitable land distribution and natural resources management. Specific Objective: Increased capacity of small-scale farmers and their networks in northern Thailand to organize movements for and demand their rights to land and natural resources management. The action will support the strengthening of the civil society movement for land reform to be led by the Northern Land Reform Network (NLRN) and the People’s Movement for a Just Society (P-Move). They will engage stakeholders including the affected farmer communities, local administrative organizations (LAOs), independent public organizations, academics, the media and parliamentarians to be aware of the community rights to land and sustainable natural resources management, and call for policy implementation and relevant laws which will solve the land and natural resources access problem of small scale farmers in a comprehensive and sustainable manner. The permanent laws will also be necessary to mitigate the risk of the change of government as experienced currently.
Cote d'Ivoire Land Policy Improvement and Implementation Project (P157206)
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The Project Development Objective is to build the capacities and institutions necessary to support implementation of the national rural land tenure security program and to register customary land rights in selected rural areas.
Support to the Philippine Climate Change Commission on the Implementation
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The government of the Philippines resolved a climate legislative in 2009, which provides adaptation and mitigation. However, institutional capacities for the implementation of a consistent climate policy are weak and activities are not or insufficiently integrated into the planning process. The project therefore strengthens the national climate commission in development, implementation and coordination of the national climate strategy, and the national climate action plan and its integration in the planning system, e.g. applying a innovative monitoring system of effects of adaptation, local climate-compatible planning, support of the law of renewable energies,and with small-scale projects for better adaptation, mitigation and creation of carbon sinks with high possibility of duplication and multiplicator effects. The objective of the project is a better adaptation to climate change and emission reduction.