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 661 - 665 of 808Integrated Growth Poles and Corridor Project II
General
The objective is to contribute to increased economic opportunities and access to enabling infrastructure services, as measured by an increase in jobs and formal firms, in Targeted Regions. The project will finance TA, training, capacity building, and provide grants for equipment and works to local authorities to implement the Operation Communal d'Appui Integre (OCAI) model in communes with project-funded tourism and agribusiness value chains activities. It will also build capacity to improve management of local land records and public administration linked to regulatory enforcement and service delivery. The OCAI approach will be implemented in partnership with Fonds de Developpement Local and the Institut de la Décentralisation et du Développement Local.
Support for the clarification of land management issues
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The analysis of the land reform in Zimbabwe is supported through the experiences of the German development assistance.
N`Tene Terra - For responsible land governance: Support for the implementation of the land law in Guinea-Bissa
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The application of the land law comes up against four main internal difficulties: a) the non-existence of the enforcement bodies provided for by the law, b) the inadequate demarcation of the territories, c) the implementation of the land tax and the ) the “coupling” between customary institutions and the state. Finally, the fragility and ignorance of customary law as well as the structural vulnerability of local communities contribute to the weakness of land governance in Guinea Bissau where the land issue has been characterized by the absence of governance since independence. The absence of coordinated land governance between the different actors (State, local communities) is a factor of land insecurity, violation of land rights (access, security, stability and protection), lack of legal protection, institutional fragility.
Improved Governance of Tenure for Shared Prosperity in the Senegal River Basin
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This project funded by the Federal Government of Germany 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 (VGGT). Building on the momentum created by the endorsement of the VGGT, the project aims at responding to an increasing demand from numerous actors in the Senegal River Basin over the past few years - especially representatives from civil society, farmers’ and pastoralists’ organizations, local authorities, etc. - to discuss and improve governance of tenure and accountability in the context of new investments in agriculture being made by public and private investors. Outputs under this project focus on: Interrelations between VGGT, F&G and LGAF are levelled and strengthened in the three countries.; Enhanced capacity on the VGGT and F&G in the Senegal River Basin; and inclusive multi-stakeholder platform and mechanisms for dialogue and implementation of actions on tenure issues in the Senegal River Basin established. It includes the integration of contributions into the national tenure governance road maps of the three countries and ad hoc support to the road maps implementation processes towards improvement of the legal and administrative framework for land based investments in the Senegal River Basin region.
Support to Agricultural Production and Marketing Project - Western Extension (PROPACOM WNW)
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The project will complements the ongoing PROPACOM project in the centre-north, north and northeast of the country. It aims to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth in the regions of Bafing, Béré, Folon, Kabadougou, Tonpki and Worodougou. The project will focus on increasing agricultural productivity of rice, maize, cassava and the vegetable value chain. It will improve food security by increasing 30,000 smallholder farmers households' access to services, rural financial services, technologies and markets. The project targets particularly women and young people who are involved in food production, processing and marketing in an effort to improve their incomes and livelihoods. On land and natural resource governance, the project aims to conduct population awareness campaigns in the local language for land registration. Further it will fund the cost of the bundle (document to be filled for requesting registration) for owners of lowlands and it will establish a device for land ownership clarification to rehabilitate and develop 2,300 ha of lowland.