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 126 - 130 of 808Smallholder Commercialization Programme - under the Global Agricultural Food Security Programme (SCP-GAFSP)
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The programme aims to empower the rural poor to increase their food security and incomes on a sustainable basis with a view to achieving long-term economic development and poverty reduction. Specifically it aims to reduce the gap between national rice production and demand (70,000 metric tons) and to increase farm incomes by 10% for the 100,000 direct beneficiaries. On land and natural resource governance, the programme, through the Land and Water Development Division (LWDD), carries out topographic, soil, hydrological, social and economic surveys to plan the rehabilitation of the Inland Valley Swamp (IVS). With the prospect of the rehabilitation of the swamp, LWDD is training youth contractors and communities in rehabilitation works and water management.
Support for Country Level Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure o
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This project is intended to form part of the overall support programme specifically envisaged to provide targeted support for the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (Voluntary Guidelines) at country level over a period of 30 months. Relevant components under this proposal focus on i) building awareness and supporting the development of multi-stakeholder national forums in selected countries. Component 1, which focuses on Liberia, Mongolia and Sierra Leone will focus on delivering country level workshops for a total of USD 300.000 to raise awareness on the Voluntary Guidelines, increasing the ability of governments and citizens to understand and administer tenure rights and the processes involved in providing access to and transferring such rights, supporting multi-stakeholder national forums and the development of plans for mainstreaming the Voluntary Guidelines in participating countries.
Municipal Spatial Planning Project , Kosovo, phase III
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Development of municipal development plans, capacity building of planners and other staff through training-on-the-job. Support to pilot investments to realize some prioritised activities (50% cost sharing). Smaller component, capacity building of the national ministry and the spatial planning institute.
Understanding changing land issues for poor rural people in sub-Saharan Africa
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The grant provides support to improve the understanding of changing land access and use by poor rural people in sub-Saharan Africa and to use that understanding for improved design, implementation and impact of development policies, programmes and projects. Land related activities include the analysis of the "macro" trends that are driving change in local land access and use; the analysis of field-level changes and of their implications for rural livelihoods and societies and the development of, and engagement on, well-targeted knowledge products from the analysis.