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 76 - 80 of 808Green Prosperity Project/Participatory Land Use Planning Activity
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The compact’s $332.5 million Green Prosperity Project is designed to increase productivity and reduce reliance on fossil fuels by expanding renewable energy, and to increase productivity and reduce land-based greenhouse gas emissions by improving land use practices and management of natural resources. The Green Prosperity Project includes a $43.1 million Participatory Land Use Planning (PLUP) activity to support participatory land use planning - administrative boundary setting, updating/integration of land use inventories and enhancing of spatial plans at the district and provincial level to support investment in renewable energy and sustainable management of natural resources. In general, the PLUP Activty is designed to: (i) put in place the foundational spatial (land use) planning elements needed to enable and sustain the specific investments in renewal energy and natural resource management funded by the GP Investment Facility; (ii) improve land use certainty for communities within the districts selected for GP investments; and (iii) support compliance with environmental and social performance standards and safeguards. Specifically, the PLUP is expected to: (i) enhance the technical capacity of provincial and district governments in spatial (land use) analysis, planning and enforcement; (ii) identify and, when possible, reduce land use and land tenure disputes as a means to improve the investment climate for renewal energy and natural resource management projects; and (iii) empower communities by providing spatial (locational) certainty through participatory geo-location and demarcation of village boundaries and the mapping of critical natural and cultural resource areas within these villages. Compact funding will finance the completion of the following technical activities. 1) Participatory village boundary setting and community mapping (VBS/CM), including: (i) the development of district level guidelines for participatory setting of village boundaries using established Government processes combined with international best practices, modern survey and mapping technology and including participation of the community, in particular women and disadvantaged groups; (ii) the participatory determination, geographic delineation and physical demarcation of village boundaries in targeted sub-districts (kecamatan) of selected districts; (iii) identification and resolution, as possible, of land use and tenure disputes; and (iv) the collection of geo-spatial data and mapping of critical natural and cultural resource areas within the mapped villages. 2) Creation of sub-district (kecamatan) level land use inventories and integration of land and other natural resource information, including: (i) compilation of and georeferencing of existing and pending licenses and permits for land and natural resource use, other use rights, community claims, and select biophysical data and creation of sub-district level land use inventories; (ii) technical assistance to relevant provincial and district government agencies to support integration, management and exchange of geo-spatial data and to make land information widely available to the public . 3) Capacity building for spatial planning and resource management at the provincial and district government level enhancement of district spatial plans, including: (i) investments in computer and mapping equipment, GIS software, training and technical assistance for provincial and district Bappeda offices and the office of the Bupati, to improve spatial analysis and the use, updating and enforcement of spatial plans; and improve effectiveness and transparency in licensing, permitting and decisions on land use.
Private Sector Development Project/Land Administration Reform Activity
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Implement a systematic land regularization program for urban and peri-urban areas and establish a new land administration authority.
Capacity Building in Support of Land Policy Development and Implementation in Africa
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The programme fosters economic development and poverty reduction through improved land use, management and governance. The expected outcome is to facilitate the implementation of the Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa via enhanced capacity of the AU-ECA-AfDB LPI, RECs, African governments, civil society and other stakeholders in land policy development as well as improved land information systems, increased networking, lesson learning and knowledge sharing among practitioners in land policy and increased monitoring of progress in land policy development and implementation.
Support for the consolidation process of the Malagasy Land Policy
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In 2005, following a participatory and consultative process, the Malagasy Government adopted a Letter of Land Policy setting the strategic directions of the Malagasy Land Policy, which revolves around four strategic axes: the restructuring, modernization and computerization of land services; improving the implementation of decentralized land management; updating the national and land regulations;the implementation of a national training plan for careers in land, new skills and communication.
Sustainable management of natural resources and strengthening of entrepreneurial competencies
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Administration and cultivation of natural resources through local community, local government and relevant state institutions, preservation of biodiversity, sustainability criteria