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 86 - 90 of 808Rural Empowerment for Agricultural Development Programme in Central Sulawesi (READ)
General
The aim of the programme was to raise incomes and provide livelihoods for poor rural people living in disadvantaged communities in the province of Central Sulawesi, benefiting about 48,500 households. The programme specifically intended to achieve sustained growth of rural economic activity for male and female residents by building capacity and quality of local institutions and building human and social capitals. On land and natural resource governance, the programme intended to provide support for community planning and mapping approaches by using GIS products and intended to support the identification of land tenure issues to present to government and stakeholders for policy issuing certificates of land use rights on common lands.
Modernization of Real Property Registration and Cadastre
General
The Project's Development Objective is to establish an efficient and accessible real property registration and cadastre system in the Republic of Uzbekistan as part of the national eGovernment structure and services. The project will achieve this by: (i) improving business processes and customer orientation in the real property registry and cadastre; (ii) creating a fully digital real property registry and cadastre system (i.e. IISRPRC) accessible online to the public; (iii) improving the regulatory and operational environment of the real property registry and cadastre; (iv) facilitating spatial data access, exchange and sharing at national level; and (v) raising awareness on the importance of real property rights.
Avoiding Greenhouse Gas Emissions through the Restoration and Sustainable Management of Peatlands in the Ukrai
General
Through its plans for reflooding drained wetlands and sustainable management of degraded swamps, the project contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting the biodiversity of wetlands in the Ukraine. It supports efforts to develop the future system of conservation areas and improves the living conditions of the local inhabitants. The project follows up and builds on the currently ongoing predecessor project of the BMU’s International Climate Protection Initiative ‘08_II_026_BLR_K_RSPB Torfmoore’ (peat bogs).
Commercialisation of land - Implications for land rights and livelihoods in the SADC Region
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The project supports policy-makers and civil society organizations in the SADC Region evidence-based information for policy-decision-making in order to promote good land governance and to protect people from dispossession. In the framework of the project, land deals are analyzed and their impacts on livelihoods assessed. This is combined with capacity development and empowerment to inform the different stakeholders and to make evidence-based decisions.
Land Registration and Cadastre Modernization Project
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The project objective is to contribute to improving the quality and effectiveness of public services through spreading and making effective e-government applications. The specific objective of the proposed project is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the land registry and cadastre services. This will be achieved through: (i) renovating and updating cadastre maps to support digital cadastre and land registry information, (ii) making the digital land registry and cadastre information available to public and private entities, (iii) improving customer services in land registry and cadastre offices, (iv) improving human resources in the Turkish Land Registry and Cadastre Agency (TKGM), and (v) developing policies and capacity to introduce best international practices in property valuation.