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 611 - 615 of 809Capacity building of geodetic administrations in BiH to deal with climate change and reducing the risk of natu
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Activities 1.Data collection activities: •Levelling measurements and processing •Gravimetric measurements and processing •Analysis of all data collected •Computation of the geoid surface •CORS network improvements 2. Roll-out of Digital Archive IT systems Bosnia and Herzegovina, like all other countries in the world, is not immune to natural and artificial disasters regardless of their origins, type and impact. Disasters have the potential to destroy years of investments, development and efforts and potentially lead to devastation of the assets intended for the priorities, such as education, health, construction and other critical infrastructure projects.
Support to the Land administration reform in Mali
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The programme funding aims at supporting the definition and implementation of the Malian land reform. The funding includes a resident technical expert and the support to specific activities (analysis of land registers, cartographic facilities, development of pilot projects in Bamako district)
Agricultural Value Chains Support Project – Extension (PAFA-E)
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The project builds on the lessons of PAFA, which is being implemented in the Groundnut basin, and aims to improve the livelihoods of 25,000 farmers households in the regions of Kaolack, Fatick, Kaffrine and Diourbel and the Louga agro-pastoral region, through their incorporation into diversified, profitable value chains. It specifically intends to improve food security and the income of small-scale producers and to create jobs for rural inhabitants, especially young people and women. Activities related to land governance support formal land allocation and women's access to land.
Empowering Indigenous People for inclusive Development
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Assist IP communities in rebuilding and empowering the community, and organise them into a federation , to defend their rights as well as a development agenda at local level. Improved access to land will be achieved via the definition of ancestral domains and by assisting them in formalising land claims. another composant of the project regards self sufficiency, livelihood promotion, savings mobilisation and financial discipline, marketing and training in enterprise management.
Sunamganj Community-Based Resource Management Project (SCBRMP)
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The aim of the project was to increasing assets and income of 90.000 households in Sunamganj district by diversifying livelihood and employment opportunities. The objectives were to improve access to essential services and resources, including credit and to support the development of a viable national institution to replicate the project approach in other areas of Bangladesh. With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project intended to demarcate wetland and conservation areas, support reforestation measures and grant leases to 293 Beels (wetland) and other user groups.