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 681 - 685 of 808Building Rural Entrepreneurial Capacity Programme: Trust and Opportunity (TOP)
General
The programme aims to tackle problems of inequality and poverty in rural areas, and to promote equal access to basic services, including rural financial services. Its target group is composed of approximately 50,000 rural households composed by small farmers, indigenous groups, Afro-Latino communities, rural young people, families who have been forcibly displaced and households headed by women, living in extreme poverty across 17 departments in Colombia. Land and natural resource governance issues are central to this programme supporting the improvement of environmental conditions by defining regulations signed by the community members for access to, use and protection of natural resources. These activities are specifically focusing on women and young people.
Conservation of Biodiversity and Forest Management
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In the peripheral area of Kahuzi-Biega National Park, smallholders are supported in the application of local agricultural production / reforestation systems on 1,000 ha of land secured by modern land titles. The program plans to support smallholders (men and women) in obtaining land titles (customary land titles), including the cadastre of each plot supported through geolocation.
Sustainable Mangement of Natural Resources Phong Nha-Ke Bang II
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Cultivation and conservation of natural resources, socio-economic development in the Phong Nha Ke Bang region.
Enhancing Customary Justice Systems in the Mau Forest, Kenya (Justice Project)
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The completed Kenya Justice Project piloted an approach for improving women’s access to customary justice, particularly related to women’s land rights, by enhancing the customary justice system in one target area. The work also resulted in a clearer understanding of the relationships between customary and statutory institutions and laws, and the development of a model to promote the integration of informal and formal justice systems. This follow-on project seeks to share the Kenya Justice Project approach as well as results and lessons learned from the Project evaluation to explore opportunities and support for broader sustainable application throughout Kenya, particularly focused on formalizing and institutionalizing linkages and processes between the formal and informal justice sectors, consistent with Article 159 of Kenya’s Constitution.
Project to Support Development in the Manebe and Melaky Regions (AD2M)
General
The aim of the project is to improve the access of 40,000 rural poor households to land and water resources in the Menabe and Melaky regions to optimize agricultural production and ensure sustainable growth of their income, while limiting migration to urban centres. Land and natural resource governance activities included supporting the establishment of 10 local land administration offices, the strengthening of regional land administration offices, and civic education and capacity building of farmers' organizations; supporting regional and commune level land use planning processes and the issuing of land certificates; and strengthening national institutions (Technical Unit of the National Land Policy Programme and the National Land Observatory).