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 281 - 285 of 808Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme (SDCP)
General
The programme goal is to foster market-driven development of Kenya's informal dairy industry, working with poor smallholder dairy producers and traders to strengthen their capacity to respond to market opportunities. It builds understanding of the market and technical knowledge of production processes, and improves organizational and enterprise skills. Dairy production improves household nutrition and provides extra income. The programme will benefit 24,000 households in the areas of Bungoma, Trans Nzoia, Kakamega, Uasin Gishu, Nandi, Nakuru, Nyamira, Kisii and Bomet. On land and natural resource governance, the programme provides support for community mobilization and capacity building for a participatory analysis and mapping with dairy groups and land access for the groups and their communities. These activities also include documenting and mapping of existing land ownership and using practices and records and sharing experiences with others.
Livestock and Pasture Development Project - II
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The project aims to increase the nutritional status and incomes of 22,400 poor households in four districts of the Khatlon region by sustainably enhancing livestock productivity and climate resilience in a sustainable matter. Special attention will be given to woman-headed households and women belonging to poor households. Land and natural resource governance related interventions aim at securing land tenure by strengthening Pasture Users’ Union and through the titling of land user right certificates. The goal is to issuing 160 land use rights agreements to the Pasture Users' Union. This should lead to the reduction of disputes regarding access to pastures by 50%. The programme will also support the implementation of Tajikistan’s Pasture Law on different levels.
Responsible Governance of Tenure through regional Guidelines (AU LPG&F)
General
The project aims at tracking progress achieved, notably in securing customary based land rights, in Niger through implementation of the Code Rural since 1993
Pasture ecosystem management
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Capacity creation with actors for sound pasture management; effective coordination among actors for good pasture governance; community organisation to reduce open-access problems in pasture management; skill development of herders
Real Estate Management Project
General
The project aims to improve the efficiency, transparency, accessibility and reliability of Serbia’s real property management systems. It consists of four components: (A) Valuation and Property Taxation; (B) Egovernance for Enabling Access to Real Estate Information; (C) Institutional Development of the Republic Geodetic Authority; and (D) Project Management and Support Activities.