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 366 - 370 of 808Reduction of CO2 emissions through protection and sustainable management of the autochthonous mixed forests in
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Using a variety of instruments (forest protection, sustainable forest management, reforestation), the purpose of the planned project is to sustainably protect an entire forest ecosystem in the Russian Far East on a model basis. A further goal is to examine to what extent emission permits can be earned with these measures. The regionally collected findings and approaches will subsequently be integrated into the forestry sector at national level and, as far as possible, the generation of emission reduction units will be established as a model for financing improved forest management.
Key Registers for e-Government & EU-integration
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The Republic Geodetic Authority of Serbia (RGA) is the institution in Serbia entrusted with production and coordination of geographic information, and is hosting some of the key registers, such as properties, addresses and administrative units. In the future, RGA will manage their key registers in a new service oriented architecture (eliminating redundant storage of data, ensuring that registers are updated continuously directly form the data sources.) Background and Justification RGA and Kartverket have for more than 10 years cooperated in projects on improving the Serbian infrastructure of geographic information and land management, among the project results are: •Scanning and transfer of old cadastral maps to digital data •Establishment of a Digital Archive for Land Administration Data •Developing strategy and realizing cooperation between stakeholders of geographic information in Serbia •Realization of a web portal for exchange of map data and geographic information •Specifications of a new Real Estate management system (cooperation with the World Bank) •Assessment the quality of property information (Data Migration Pilot - ongoing) In the same period there has been significant developments having impact on the operation of RGA: •Serbia have launched an e-Government program and are developing a number of services for digital interaction between the public, businesses and public institutions. •The European Union has implemented a series of standards under the INSPIRE directive framework, obliging public institutions to make geographic information available on standardized formats and services. This project focuses on upgrading the key registers of RGA enabling integration with the Serbian e-Government, also enabling INSPIRE compliant services for geographic information. Project Objectives The overall objective is to support RGAs role as an online provider of property-, and geographic information to enable realization of efficient e-Government services, and European Standardisation. More specifically: 1.To establish three new registers (Addresses, Administrative Units and Condominiums) as an integrated part of the RGA key registers, communicate with external data through services, and support the e-government of Serbia. 2.To make geographic information available to the private and public enterprises as well as the citizens with geoportal and services that comply with the INSPIRE directive of EU. 3.To integrate the new registers with services with other registers both internally and externally to RGA, thus maintaining continuous and coordinated updating and efficient work processes.
Leasehold Forestry and Livestock Programme (LFLP)
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The goal of the programme was to reduce poverty by allocating leasehold forestry plots to about 44,300 households in the mid-hills area of Nepal, thus enabling them to increase their income from forest products and livestock. Specifically the programme addresses leasehold forestry and group formation, livestock development, rural financial services, and programme management and coordination. Land and natural resource governance related interventions intended to provide support for district planning and coordination; group formation and forest allocation; land and forest development; forest implementation support and social mobilisation, including women which receive trainings for group management and rural finance.
Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG)
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ILRG is a highly flexible field support Task Order under the Strengthening Tenure and Resource Rights (STARR) II IDIQ managed by the E3/Land and Urban Office. ILRG will provide technical assistance services to improve land and resource governance, strengthen property rights, and build resilient livelihoods as the foundation for strong economic growth, stability, self-reliance, and resilience. USAID Missions and Bureaus can request technical assistance through ILRG for a variety of services: assessments, policy support, institutional capacity building, facilitation and partnership building.
National Programme to Support Agricultural Value Chain Actors (PNAAFA)
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The programme aims to improve the structure of federations, unions and other groupings of farmer organizations, to provide capacity building for members and extend financial assistance for the development of specific value chains. The programme gives particular attention to women and young people and will benefit 66,000 households in five of the seven prefectures of the region including those of forest: Beyla, Nzerekore, Macenta, Lola and Yomou, where there is a total 20 rural communities. On land and natural resource governance, the programme supports the prioritization of girls and boys (including academics) and head of household women in the distribution of irrigated land; the institutionalization and implementation of regulations promoting the empowerment of women and youth in decision-making bodies and the negotiation with landowners to facilitate access to land.