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 81 - 85 of 809Rural Land Support Program - Côte d'Ivoire
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The objective of the program is to support the Government in its efforts to combat poverty and promote peace, through direct support for the implementation of the Ivorian land policy. To do this, it aims to (i) increase the financial and operational capacities of the Government, (ii) ensure the formal delimitation of villages, prior to the land tenure security of collective or individual customary rights, (iii) improve governance, in particular the framework strategic, institutional and legal aspects of the land sector and (iv) strengthen peace and social cohesion by preventing the risk of inter-community tensions. The program's objective is to support the Government in its fight against poverty and promotion of peace via a direct support to the implementation of the Ivorian land policy. In this regard the program aims at (i) increasing the financial and operational capacity of the Government, (ii) ensuring the formal delimitation of the villages as a prerequisite to collective and individual secure costumary rights, (iii) improving governance, including land strategic , institutional and legal framework, and (iv) strengthening peace and social cohesion by preventing the risks of inter-community tensions.
Support to improved land governance
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Technical assistancy at the MEPATE for the implementation of the Programme National Foncier (PNF) The technical expert supports the Programme National Foncier. He works in close collaboration with the Cellule de Coordination de la réforme foncière.
Land Tenure Services Project
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The objective of the Land Tenure Services Project is to establish more efficient and secure access to land by improving the policy framework, upgrading land information systems and services, helping beneficiaries meet immediate needs for registered land rights, and supporting better access to land for investment. This project comprises three mutually reinforcing activity areas: •Policy Monitoring Pillar: Improve the policy environment by addressing implementation problems with the existing land law, conducting regulatory reviews to improve upon it, and supporting training for predictable, speedy resolution of disputes; •Capacity Building Pillar: Build the institutional capacity to implement policies and to provide quality public land-related services by investing in human and information resources; and •Site-specific Pillar: Facilitate access to land by helping individuals and businesses with clear information on land rights and access and with registering their grants-of-land use.
Support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure (Congo)
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Te Ministry of Land Affairs and Public Domain hosted a national workshop in Brazzaville during 5-7 October 2015 that brought together 64 people from various sectors to discuss the relevance of the Voluntary Guidelines. As forests cover about 70 percent of the country, the workshop was an opportunity to improve the understanding of linkages between tenure and forestry. The participants endorsed recommendations, including the establishment of a multi-stakeholder committee and the dissemination of the Voluntary Guidelines at decentralized levels. The actions proposed include integrating the Voluntary Guidelines in national processes by improving the normative framework, conducting reforms to improve tenure governance and launching a consultation process for the development of a national land use plan. The workshop was organized with the technical and financial support of FAO.
Managing marine and coastal biodiversity in Pacific island states and atolls
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The objective of this project is to improve the management of the marine and coastal biodiversity of high volcanic islands (Fiji, Solomons, Vanuatu) and flat atolls (Kiribati, Tonga, Tuvalu). The project will undertake economic analyses of marine and coastal ecosystems (TEEB) in six partner countries as well as regionally (Ocean – TEEB) and incorporate the results into national development planning. It will also spatially expand marine protected area systems, target them towards preserving ecosystems and demonstrate approaches to effective management in pilot areas, including payment for environmental ecosystem services. The project results will be applied in communities across the Pacific through regional organisations. Preserving marine and coastal biodiversity has positive impacts on climate change adaptation, carbon storage and the livelihoods of the population.