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 696 - 700 of 808Pro-poor Value Chain Development Project in the Maputo and Limpopo Corridor (PROSUL)
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This aim of the project is to improve the climate-smart livelihoods of 20,350 smallholder farmers households in the Maputo and Limpopo corridors, comprising 19 selected districts in Gaza, Inhambane and Maputo provinces. Its expected outcome is a sustainable increase in the incomes of farmers producing irrigated vegetables, cassava and livestock including cattle, goats and sheep. With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project supports measures aimed at strengthening land rights of the project’s target groups and at improving the management of land use by Farmers Organisations (FOs) and communities. It supports FO-based analysis of land access and tenure security issues, with special attention given to identifying measures for strengthening land/natural resource rights of poor and vulnerable groups, especially women and youth.
The Land Matrix Initiative Phase 2: Open Data for Transparency and Accountability on Land and Investment
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In order to further promote up-to date and reliable information on large-scale land acquisitions, contribute to the empowerment of weaker stakeholders and to correcting information asymmetries that negatively influence decisions over land, the program aims at supporting the Land Matrix Initiative Global Observatory as the primary reference point for data, information, and knowledge on large-scale land acquisitions, developing national, regional and thematic Land Observatories, and scaling up and creating momentum through replication, sharing, and up scaling of experiences and best practices of Land Observatories.
Land Management/Cadastre
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The central cadastre authority, communal cadastre authorities as well as relevant ministries and authorities improve the institutional and organizational framework conditions for ownership protection.
Biodiversity and Watersheds Improved for Stronger Economy and Ecosystem Resilience Project
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The 5-year B+WISER Program in the Philippines aims to (1) conserve biodiversity in forest areas, (2) reduce forest degradation in seven priority sites, (3) build capacity to conserve biodiversity, manage forests and support low emissions development, and (4) contribute to disaster risk reduction at sub-national levels. Activities related to land tenure and property rights focus on enhancing inclusion of indigenous peoples, upland farmers, and women in natural resources management. Illustrative activities include development of studies on costs and benefits of different land uses, co-management options for overlapping management regimes (e.g. protected areas within ancestral domains), payments for ecosystems services; forest land use planning and/or implementation; and support for land tenure and dispute resolution initiatives.
Project for Strenthening Assets, Markets and Rural Development Policies in the Northern Highlands (Sierra Nort
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The project aims to strengthen community organizations in rural areas, open new markets for entrepreneurial activities and increase financial assets of rural, poor, small-scale producers and entrepreneurs in the northern highlands of Peru focusing on women and young people in 20,000 households. With regard to land and natural resource governance, project beneficiaries are supported in obtaining land titles through the provision of improved technical assistance, through financial services and land and labour markets in rural areas.