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 791 - 795 of 808Support for the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure (Component 3, China, India and South
General
The project comprises workshops and activities to increase the awareness of Chinese, Indian and South-African investors involved in extraterritorial (i.e. overseas or outbound) investments. The scope of the study draws upon wider international experience of several BRICS countries. In China, the original target country for this activity, it has proven to be particularly difficult to identify and contact suitable institutions. Efforts to find an appropriate institution will continue, with the help of colleagues in the Trade and Markets Division. In September 2015, the study started in India under a consultancy agreement with Professor Praveen Kumar Jha of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. A first draft was delivered in late December 2015 that is currently under review. The study focusses on the extraterritorial investments of India in African countries (e.g., in Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda). A contract under Letter of Agreement is also underway with the NEPAD Business Foundation in South Africa. The NEPAD Business Foundation provided a detailed work plan for the study. It is expected that they will start the study in 2016. They will also concentrate on investments in African countries.
Technical assistance for the implementation of the agrarian policy in the framework of the VGGT
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The project aims at supporting the implementation of the agrarian policy (2014) in the frame of the VGGT in particular regarding land access; alternative conflict resolution mechanisms and supporting the monitoring of the policy implementation.
Harapan Rainforest - Pilot Restoration of a Degraded Forest Ecosystem on Sumatra
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By maintaining and protecting 101,000 ha of rainforest in the provinces of Jambi and South Sumatra, the first areas to be designated for ecosystem restoration in Indonesia, some 15.2 million tonnes of CO2 are to be securely stored over a 30-year period to serve as a model for how inactive production forest licences can be applied to a further 24 million ha of rainforest. The project calls for measures for example to combat the causes of deforestation and forest degradation, restore forest regions, develop an REDD strategy for Indonesia and other areas of rainforest around the globe and integrate biodiversity aspects, as well as to ensure the financial sustainability of the initiative.
Development of National Land Banks for improved Food and Nutrition Security and Land Administration
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The project is aimed at developing National land banks in Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines to promote food and nutrition security and support sustainable management of rural lands, in particular idle and underutilized lands. The project also aims to strengthen the capacity of staff of the Land Administration Divisions in each country to manage and operate the Land Banks, thereby promoting good governance of land tenure in the respective countries. The project will significantly contribute to increasing food production, sustainable land management and rural development in the three countries.
Climate Protection and Preservation of Primary Forests – A Management Model using the Wild Coffee Forests in E
General
The project objective is to preserve 200,000 ha of cloud forest in Kafa, the region of southwestern Ethiopia where coffee originated. Up to two million tons of CO2 emissions will be prevented over the course of the project term through reforestation, establishment of the first Ethiopian biosphere reserve, and introduction of management methods that conserve forest resources. Tried and proven processes of participatory management will be used to integrate climate protection and climate adaptation measures.