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 266 - 270 of 808REILA - Responsible and Innovative Land Administration
General
New phase under preparation for 2017- 20. The overall objective of the Finnish support, which is adopted directly from ESIF (Ethiopia Sustainable Land Management Investment Framework), is to improve livelihoods and economic well-being of rural population promoting sustainable land management practises. The project promotes enabling policy, legal, institutional and financial framework for land administration, builds capacity for an entry-level land administration in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, supports sustainable 1st and 2nd level land certification in areas with high potential for investments, and enhances responsible land delivery for investments.
Responsible Governance of Tenure through Voluntary Guidelines (Tenure Guidelines)
General
The programme aims at building the support system to facilitate the implementation of the VGGT and that of the AU Land Policy G&F on the African continent respectively. Synergies to facilitate the implementation of both frameworks are actively promoted in liaison with a dedicated EU-Programme
Strengthening Land Governance
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The recent transition to market economy and creation of land market has led to increased land speculation. In the face of weak legal frameworks and institutions for their protection, the land access of women and men farmers, especially those (mostly ethnic minorities) living in upland shifting cultivation areas, is at risk. Land governance will be a central issue in any political dialogue with ethnic leaders. The rapidly evolving political environment presents both opportunities and risks for equitable land governance.
Sahelian Areas Development Fund Programme (FODESA)
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The goal of the programme was to reduce the incidence of poverty among 72,000 rural households in the Sahelian zone (in the four regions of Kayes, Koulikoro, Ségou and Mopti) through better incomes and living conditions. To this end, the programme helped village communities in these areas to assess needs and identify micro-projects to which they would have contribute to in cash or in kind. With regard to land and natural resource governance, the programme has provided support for the formalisation of land transaction and schemes to negotiate and formalize collective rights to land and water. The programme created informal land property rights used to ensure access to land and water in rural areas, where property titles are virtually non-existent. To secure the long-term individual land rights of vulnerable groups, particularly women and young people, the programme supported the Land Use Plan to negotiate and formalize rights on water and land.
Sustainable Management of Land and Environment, SMOLE, II
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SMOLE aims at reducing absolute poverty in the society through environmentally sound land management and socio-economic development. The Project consists of four main components: 1. Institutional Development, 2. Land Management, 3. Environmental Management, 4. Awareness Raising. Specific objective for SMOLE II, which will cover the period of June 2009 May 2013, is to achieve the medium level of operations and feasibility in sustainable land and environmental management.