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 51 - 55 of 809The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility. 2014-2015 inception + 2015-2017 implementation
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The Rights and Resources Initiative is catalyzing a new International Land and Forest Tenure Facility in response to growing global demand for land and forest tenure reform. Sida has committed USD 15.0 million over a 4-year period to support the final assessments and consultations needed to finalize design of the Facility, establishment and launch of Facility structures and governance, and support implementation of community tenure reform projects in a first set of countries.
Support in the development of a pasture land law and forest tenure assessment (Mongolia)
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FAO with funding of a sister project conducted two multi-stakeholder workshops in Mongolia, in October 2014 and November 2015. The workshops re-launched dialogue on tenure in the country, raised awareness on the VGGT and served to develop an action plan and assess progress made in the implementation of the VGGT. As a result, a National Multi-stakeholder Platform (advisory role) and a Working Group (coordination and conduct of activities) were established in support of national VGGT implementation. The groups serve as a foundation for collectively addressing a broad range of activities to implement the VGGT and are coordinated by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the People Centered Conservation in Mongolia (PCC), a local NGO. The VGGT Working Group was formalized through an Order of the State Secretary of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, which collectively reviewed the translation of the VGGT and officially presented it during the second workshop in November 2015. Resulting from the momentum created through these activities, and the priority areas for action identified during the first workshop, the Government of Mongolia requested FAO technical support in work related to the drafting of a pasture land law and a forest tenure assessment. Project funding offered the opportunity to respond to both requests.
Support for the VGGT fiduciary fund FAO
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This support helped to finance workshops for the promotion/dissemination of the VGGT in Niger, Senegal and Madagascar
Idleb Rural Development Project
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The aim of the project was to improve the food security and income levels of farmers and rural women, among 42,000 households in the region of Idleb. This was achieved by expanding the area of arable land, improving access to water, and introducing more efficient farming and water management practices for the sustainable use of land and water resources. Land and natural resource governance interventions supported the above mentioned activities and included the support for surveys, and studies and mapping activities related to land use, and for NRM plans. Further the project focused on the land reclamation on about 20,000 ha of largely underdeveloped land in the Jabel al Wastani and Jabel al Zawia uplands.
Rural 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.