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 121 - 125 of 808Agriculture Rural Growth and Land Management Project
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Support to the Regional Land Administration Offices (Cirdoma & Cirtopo): This activity aims (i) to improve the current land information system, in particular the information exchange between the State land services and the municipal land offices and (ii) to establish or to improve Local Land Use Mapping (PLOFs) aiming the preparation of local development plans, including the delimitation of investment areas. The activity will focus on computerization of land services, improving the quality, accuracy and reliability of the PLOFs. The project will also provide support to the "Specialized Offices" (“Bureaux Spécialisés" – civil servants responsible for monitoring the local land offices) to enable them to carry out their mission. This will involve training and additional equipment.
Support of land reform I
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Access to land gets improved as well as productive and sustainable land use.
Project for Improved Land Governance and Databases
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The project will develop a national Multi-Purpose Land Information System (MPLIS) and make a National Land Database available to both the government and the public. The project is designed with an emphasis on building sustainable databases that are accurate, user-friendly, and accessible through a gradual approach to developing Land Information Systems and land databases. The project will also help the government simplify procedures and business processes for Land Registration Offices operating at sub-national levels, provide better-quality land services, and increase public awareness of land information and land services.
Reducing Deforestation Through Improved Spatial Planning in Papua Provinces, Indonesia
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To improve spatial plan processes and implementation to prevent deforestation and land degradation in Papua and West Papua provinces and help Indonesia deliver its emission reduction commitment through shifting development paradigm towards lower carbon pathways.
Pro-poor Resource Governance under Changing Climates
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Given the focus of the research project in understanding how climate change aggravates the vulnerability of poor rural people, the main objective of the research was to identify the fundamental social and environmental causes that put poor rural people in a vulnerable position with view to climate change and to identify their strategies of resilience. Under the umbrella of a common analytical framework, IFAD and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) collaborated with local civil society organisations involved in establishing and maintaining resource governance regimes contributing to pro-poor adaptation. Target groups explicitly included women groups and in many cases women were the main group concerned, both as subjects in the research and in the knowledge sharing activities.