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 691 - 695 of 809Agricultural Sector Development Programme - Livestock: Support for Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Development (ASD
General
The programme aims to improve food security and increase incomes among 460,840 households in the areas of Manyara, Tanga, Pemba, Unguja, Dodoma and Singida. Specifically, the programme works to improve the livelihoods of the poorest agro-pastoralists and pastoralists. It strengthens the capacity of livestock communities and enhances the delivery of livestock development services to smallholders. Further it aims to improve marketing systems and infrastructure for livestock products and strengthen national and local government institutions to provide services to the livestock subsector. On land and natural resource governance, the programme stresses the importance of land-use planning particularly with respect to assuring tenure, resolution of conflicts over land and water among competing interest groups and the sustainability of the natural resource base. It adopts land-use plans which will establish clear land-use demarcation and protect and monitor water resources. The programme supports village land use planning and rangeland management through the Collaborative Initiative on Land Issues (CALI). The goal is that on the mainland at least 72 villages will have proper land-use plans.
Community Investor Partnership Project (PROPARCERIA)
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The aim of this grant, which complemented the Rural Markets Promotion Programme (PROMER), was to strengthen land and natural resource tenure security through the piloting of business partnerships between smallholder farmers, rural communities and outside investors. It examined the tools available for establishing and securing land rights in the context of such partnerships and for negotiating and documenting sustainable partnership arrangements, including the award of legal personality to the community groups involved. The project worked with communities that had already been delimited and which wanted to work with investors. In areas where investors interest was high but local rights had not been delimited, the Community Land Initiative and similar projects were used to delimit local rights ahead of a new pilot exercise.
Bagre Growth Pole Project
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The objective is to increase economic activity in the project Area, resulting in an increase in private investment, employment generation, and agricultural production. On land, the project will:(i)Design and install an effective and socially responsible system to resolve land tenure issues, facilitate access to land, and reduce the cost of land in order to make serviced land available for development, and (ii)Develop simpler and more transparent procedures for investors to acquire land use rights and reduce the cost of land transactions
Real Estate Cadastre and Registration
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The project aims to help develop Kosovo's land and property markets and enhance security of tenure, by (i) supporting the improvement of the capacity of the Municipal Cadastre Offices (MCOs) to deliver services, (ii) strengthening the Kosovo Cadastre Agency (KCA) through institutional reform and technical infrastructure upgrading, and (iii) supporting the design and implementation of a comprehensive training program for KCA and MCO managers and staff, private surveyors and other key stakeholders in management, planning, legal, technical and administrative subjects.
Umurage wEjo, the Legacy for Tomorrow: Land and Livelihood in Rwanda
General
The overall objective is to strengthen decentralised implementation of land and livelihood policies in all districts of Rwanda. Specific objectives include: 1) Create opportunities for engagement and dialogue between local authorities, NSAs, and citizens, especially youth and other vulnerable groups, on policies related to land and livelihood; 2) Build capacity of Local Authorities and NSAs (media and civil society) at the local level to be more effective in ensuring appropriate implementation of policies related to land and livelihood