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 706 - 710 of 809Smallholder Productivity Promotion Programme (S3P)
General
The goal of the programme is to improve income levels and food and nutrition security of 60,000 poor rural households, in three provinces of Zambia: Kasama, Mansa and Lusaka, who depend on agriculture and/or agricultural related activities. The programme will complement the Smallholder Agribusiness Promotion Programme (SAPP) and will support the efforts of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MACO) by enhancing on-farm productivity of smallholder farmers thus enabling them to respond to emerging market opportunities. Land and natural resource governance related activities aim to strengthen the participatory community-level land use planning, management processes land tenure security through the provision of technical support for training and the development of guidelines, these activities will be gender sensitive and include boundary demarcation of female-headed households and women’s fields according to households as appropriate.
Strengthening Urban Growth for Economic Development (SURGE) Project
General
A key objective of SURGE is improving local urban development, which includes 1)strengthening local capacity in urban development, 2) Improve land-use planning and development following international best practice, and 3) Improve local infrastructure planning and implementation.
Livelihood improvement through sustainable resource management in North Gondar
General
The overall objective of the programme is the improvement of livelihood opportunities and resilience of selected rural communities in North Gondar through sustainable resource management. The programme promotes integrated watershed management, improved rural land administration and access to land for poor farmers and vulnerable groups, sustainable agricultural/livestock production and marketing, including diversification of livelihood opportunities.
Kirehe Community-based Watershed Management Project (KWAMP)
General
The grant aims to reduce rural poverty in Kirehe District, which is to be evidenced by a steep improvement in household food and nutrition security, asset ownership and quality of life indicators among vulnerable groups including woman-headed households, orphans and those living with HIV/AIDS. The immediate objectives of the project converge with the development of sustainable profitable small-scale commercial agriculture. The project aims to increase links between farmers, local markets and agricultural intensification program through irrigation scheme and value chain development. The project also supports the regularisation of land tenure in Kirehe district. On land and natural resource governance, the project aims to increase the capacity of government and other community institutions to ensure effective water and land use management and planning that will enable agricultural intensification through watershed planning and management, regularization of land tenure and water use management.
Forest Farm Facility
General
The Forest&Farm Facility is a mechanism for funding and capacity building to stimulate and strengthen farmers organizations and active multi-stakeholder participation in forest and farm-related policy dialogues. A development of the former NFP-Facility and Growing Forest Partnerships, it's more oriented towards cross-sectoral cooperation, local rights holders, gender equity and income creation.