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.
Members:
Resources
Displaying 536 - 540 of 809Improvement of food security of former landless households in Cambodia
General
The livelihood and the food security of recipients of land are improved.
Sustainable and Inclusive Agribusiness Project
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A technical assistance program will be established to: (i) assist local communities to undertake land rights inventories and planning to identify up to 10,000 ha of land they choose to make available to private commercial agriculture producers, including small-scale producers (about 5,000 hectares in the Ngalam Valley and 5,000 ha around Lac de Guiers); (ii) carry out feasibility studies and elaborate master plans for the development of irrigated perimeters in the selected areas; (iii) assist rural communities in selecting private operators through a transparent and competitive process at village level, and in negotiating commercial agriculture contracts with said private investors which shall include sustained benefits, fair compensation and enforceable rights for the community; (iv) assist rural communities in monitoring investors’ activities to ensure fulfillment of their obligations as per the legally binding contracts that will be negotiated by the communities with private investors; and (v) develop effective dispute resolution mechanisms.
VGGT based forest tenure and CBF assessments - Congo Brazzaville, Gabon, Honduras, Mongolia, Portugal, Senegal
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VGGT based forest tenure and CBF assessments conducted in each of the countries. In Gabon and Congo Brazzaville the assessments will inform Ministry of Forests on status and challenges of CBF, and recommendations for improvement. In Honduras and Senegal, the assessments will be used to inform on-going forestry programs and design of new projects. In Mongolia, the assessment will be used to promote implementation of the VGGT and inform the pasture law being drafted. In Portugal, the findings are being used to promote policy dialogue on communal forest land tenure and management. In Zambia the assessments will inform the on-going FAO Technical Cooperation Program on Sustainable Forest and Woodland Management for Food and Nutrition Security in Western Province of Zambia.
Rwanda Land Tenure Regularisation Programme
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Support to the National Land Centre to demarcate, adjudicate and issue title deeds for approximately 10m plots of land across the country, including promoting joint ownership of women. The programme supports a participatory mechanism for land adjudication and disputes resolution, has invested in mapping technology and is strengthening the land administration system.
Participatory Small-Scale Irrigation Development Programme (PASIDP)
General
The aim of the programme is to improve food security, family nutrition and by developing about 12,000 hectares in irrigation schemes for 62,000 farmers households, in four states of Ethiopia: Tigray, Amhara, SNNP and Oromia. The irrigation schemes developed will provide a model to be scaled up and replicated across the country. To ensure sustainability and the full participation of local community members, farmers will own and manage the irrigation systems through their own Water Users' Associations (WUAs). Specific targets include households headed by women, unemployed young people and people without land. On land and natural resource governance, the programme aims to issue land title certificates to small scale farmers and to ensure equitable access to land for women in these schemes. It will also support the formation and empowerment of WUAs for effective operations and maintenance and to empower women by increasing their participation in decision making bodies of WUAs and enhancing their skills in irrigated farming among other things.