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 291 - 295 of 809PCLD - Programme for Communal Land Development III (BMZ/KfW)
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The current land reform project depicts the third phase of financial cooperation to support the Namibian Government to implement an ambitious land reform program that aims at fighting against poverty, inequitable land distribution and social tensions. The project purpose is to improve tenure security and registration of communal land rights in communal areas as well as developing integrated regional land use plans and infrastructure investments in the small scale communal farming sector.
ASEAN Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change
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The programme has two specific objectives (1) Social forestry approaches integrated in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in ASEAN Member States (2) Socio-economic benefits derived from inclusion of vulnerable communities in adaptation and mitigation strategies
Second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project (CHARMP II)
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The project aims to increase farm family income through agricultural development and enhance quality of life of 12,530 rural poor households through the improvement of land tenure security, food security and watershed conservation in the upland area of the Cordillera Administrative region. On land and natural resource governance, the main focus of the project is to ensure the utilization on ancestral domains through indigenous practices and through the issuance of Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title and Certificate of Ancestral Land Title.
Technical Assistance: Ministry of Housing KENSUP
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Technical assistance to the Ministry of Housing for the preparation of the Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement programme (KISIP) through Hifab Consulting AB.
Modernization of the agricultural sector in Zambia
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The One World - No Hunger funds will be used to set up a leasing company for the agricultural sector in Zambia. The target group of this company are small farmers who want to modernize their cultivation method by purchasing equipment (eg tractors, cultivators or trailers).