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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Displaying 141 - 145 of 809Land Administration Project II
General
The project aims to consolidate and strengthen land administration and management systems for efficient and transparent land services delivery. The project will focus on: (i) Strengthening the Policy, Legal and Regulatory Framework for Land Administration by providing a platform for continued work on the legal and regulatory framework governing land administration and land use; (ii) Decentralizing and Improving Business and Service Delivery Processes, to improve transparency and reduce the time and cost involved in delivery of services such as deed and title registration and other services provided by the land sector agencies, and (iii) Improving Maps and Spatial Data Information for Land Administration, by providing up to date maps and other spatial products and developing the infrastructure for collecting and sharing data and information to be used as inputs directly or indirectly in land administration.
Support for decentralization and decontralization in Benin
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1/ Development of the Cotonou urban land register; 2/implementation of the Cellule Nationale d'adressage; 3/ support to the decentralized cooperation
Securing Access to Land for the Rural Poor with the International Land Coalition (ILC)
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The overall goal of the grant is to enable smallholder and marginalized farmers, especially women, to achieve secure and equitable access to land. The programme’s objectives are aligned with the pillars of the 2011-2015 ILC Strategic Framework: (i) influence the formulation and implementation of national land policy for the benefit of poor rural women and men; (ii) influence global and regional land-related processes and systems in favour of pro-poor land policies and governance; and (iii) build a leading knowledge network on land governance, contributing to substantive improvements in the monitoring, sharing and uptake of land-related knowledge.
Rural land policy support project
General
This project finance the activities of the French technical committee on "land tenure and development": 1/ Supporting and promoting new knowledge on land governance 2/Guiding policy choices and contributing to international debates 3/ Supporting land policy actors