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 808Livestock and Pasture Development Project - I
General
The project aims at increasing the nutritional status and incomes of targeted households by sustainably enhancing livestock productivity. In particular, the project will focus on: Institutional development, Livestock and pasture development. It works in selected districts of the Khatlon Oblast benefiting some 22,400 poor households from 100 villages, and targets smallholder livestock farmers, private veterinary service providers and small-scale entrepreneurs with the potential to provide services to smallholder farmers, woman-headed households and women belonging to poor households. Land and natural resource governance related interventions focus on Pasture management and aim at establishing and strengthening Pasture User Associations (PUAs) and at developing Community Livestock and Pasture Development Plans (CLPDPs) to collect and analyse the information on land balance to ensure access to the legal pastureland use rights and to transfer legal rights for all types of pastures to the PUAs for at least 10 years.
Pastoral 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.
Collaborative Action on Land Issues - CALI III Niger
General
The overall objective of the proposal: “to contribute to the effective implementation of land reform (in particular the texts of the Rural Code on Pastoralism) promoting equitable access of rural producers to land and productive resources”.
LANDac Land Forum
General
With the LANDac Land Forum we aim to discuss in a multi-stakeholder platform under what conditions foreign and domestic agribusiness can contribute to food security and inclusive and sustainable development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We invite a small selection of policy makers, civil society representatives, researchers and private sector stakeholders for three Forums (to be held in 2013, 2014 and 2015) during which they address this issue based on their own experiences on the ground.