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 751 - 755 of 809Core Support to The International Union for Conservation of the Nature (IUCN) 2013-2016
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Sidas core support to IUCNs socio-economic and rights-oriented approach to nature conservation in order to integrate the work of communities engaged in biodiversity conservation, nature-based solutions and sustainable development. One of IUCN 3 objectives is "an effective and equitable governance of nature's use by means of improved governance arrangements over natural resources deliver rights-based and equitable conservation with tangible livelihood benefits".
Environmental regulation in Brazil (CAR) II
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Coherent implementation of environmental regulation instruments (environmental register, -programms and -projects)
FNF contribution to the Special Initiative One World - No Hunger I
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Small-scale farmers and rural societies are aware of their property rights and are able to use them to increase their income and the food security.
Agricultural Intensification and Value-Enhancing Support Project (PAIVA-B)
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Donor's contribution: European Union: US$ 6.00 million World Food Programme: US$ 4.66 million Other funding: US$ 2.50 million The project was designed in a post-crisis context, and it aims to contribute to the fight against poverty among the 30,000 most vulnerable households, in the six provinces north and east of the capital Bujumbura: Cibitoke, Kayanza, Karusi, Bubanza, Muramvya, Gitega and to develop organized and sustainable family farming to allow small-scale rural producers to increase their incomes. Measures will be taken to combat erosion and integrate crops and livestock, the use of pesticides and agricultural intensification. Land and natural resource governance related activities aim to strengthen the land tenure security owned or held by household; to strengthen the security of land tenure of individuals and groups who have access to State-owned marsh lands. The project aims to spread the relevant provisions of the Land Code, the Environmental Code and the law on public water resources. Women will have priority access to rehabilitated wetlands and those developed by the project.
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.