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 131 - 135 of 808Pastoral Water and Resource Management Project in Sahelian Areas (PROHYPA)
General
The project aim was to reduce vulnerability and poverty in both pastoral and agro-pastoral areas in the regions Lac, Kanem, Barl El Gazal, Batha Ouest, Batha Est, Guera, Baguirmi, Dababa and Hadjer Lamis. It aimed to improve the access of mobile livestock systems to water and pastoral resources through improved infrastructure and to strengthen the capacity of the groups and institutions involved in planning and managing these natural resources. The targeted beneficiaries were included in 32,000 households. With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project supported the mapping of existing wells and of livestock migration routes to secure the mobility of farmers and facilitated the settlement of conflicts related to livestock wandering in the fields.
Restoring Peatlands in Russia - for fire prevention and climate change mitigation
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Within the framework of the bilateral Russian-German environmental cooperation, a major peatland rewetting project will be implemented involving substantial Russian and German techhnical and scientific expertise, piloting of peatland rewetting in over 45,000 ha for fire prevention and GHG emission reductions, involving also knowledge base development involving exchange of experiences and expertise with IKI projects in Belarus and Ukraine and other relevant projects, review and improvement of relevant policy and legislation, capacity building, awareness raising, development of sustainability measures including cooperation with private sector and local landowners, establishment of methodologies and protocols for peatland rewetting, and upscaling by the Russian authorities to priority sites in European Russia.
Support for decentralization and decontralization in Benin
General
1/ Development of the Cotonou urban land register; 2/implementation of the Cellule Nationale d'adressage; 3/ support to the decentralized cooperation
North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project for Uplands Areas (NERCORMP II)
General
The project, built on the first phase, has the goal to improve the livelihood of vulnerable groups in a sustainable manner through improved management of their natural resource base. It aims to address the existing issues of inefficient government service mechanism in the livelihood sector and the absence of ideal development projects in the north-east region of India benefiting 23,000 households. Land related activities describe the bottom-up model as the project emphasizes on active community participation in the planning and implementation processes. The formation of community building organisations are a key to implementation - Natural Resource Management Groups and Self Help Groups, predominantly of women members, are formed in the project villages for this purpose.