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 166 - 170 of 808Sustainable Territorial Development Project
General
The project aims to contribute to poverty reduction of rural families through social and productive inclusion. Its development objective would aim at increasing the human, social, natural, physical and financial assets of potential project beneficiaries. Land and natural resource governance activities will include the co-financing of annual operating plans and activities for territorial environmental management, land demarcation and control. They will support the implementation of projects in the high rain forest area undertaking a process that includes both the development of their economic initiatives as well as management of natural resources and land use planning as main references for the management of their territory and it will establish a fund for rural youth enterprise learning.
Support to and Capitalization on the EU Land Governance Programme Phase II
General
This project complements the project 'Support to and Capitalization on the EU Land Governance Programme in Africa' and is aimed at facilitating the integration of eigtht new in-country projects (Brazil, Cameroon, Columbia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Pakistan, Sudan and Uganda) into the existing mechanisms for transversal support under Phase I and enhances support by building on lessons learnt and additional needs particularly in the area of capacity development. All activities under Phase II will be interlinked, jointly implemented and mutually supportive of each other and of activities planned under Phase I. The following areas of work are addressed under this phase: (i) VGGT are mainstreamed in project during the project start-up phase; (ii) Activities of the in-country projects are capitalized and coordinated; (iii) Capacities of project staff, national counterparts and other stakeholders are developed; (iv) In-country projects receive direct support from FAO; (v) Monitoring is enhanced and lessons learnt are documented and disseminated.
Capacity Building and Improved Client Services at NAPR of Georgia
General
The project is a twinning-like cooperation to build capacity of the National Agency of Public Registry to provide efficient, transparent and cost-effective services according to unified strategic guidelines and technical standards and with reliable real property information, in order to build a well-functioning land administration, including secured property rights and a rational use of land
Environmental Services Project
General
The development objective of the Environmental Services Project (ESP) for Albania is to support sustainable land management practices and increase communities' monetary and non-monetary benefits in targeted project areas which are mainly in erosion prone rural upland areas.