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 781 - 785 of 809REDD-Plus Benefits: Facilitating countries and communities in designing pro-poor REDD-Plus benefit-sharing sch
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Pro-poor REDD benefit-sharing schemes incentivize reduction of forest emissions by safeguarding livelihoods of forest communities. This project fills a gap by building capacity and modeling benefit-sharing schemes for REDD activities. Aligned with the workplan of the REDD-Plus Partnership, it scales up actions needed for national REDD strategies under the Cancun Agreement.
Promoting strategic intervention to achieve long term implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Respon
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Over a period of 24 months, the project aims to capitalize on the successes of Phase 1 and take the VGGT implementation process one step further deepening its reach, direct impact on citizens and sustainability through strategic interventions. In each of the three countries activities will focus on two areas: i) support to the institutional setting for VGGT implementation and developing capacity for improved tenure governance, and ii) support the implementation of the prioritized VGGT recommendations through strategic interventions with a specific focus on innovation, replicability and long term sustainability. In particular in SIerra Leone the project supports the implementation of the National Land Policy through the formal recognition of customary rights, in Liberia it aims at increasing general public capacity to participate in tenure governance while in Mongolia it aims at supporting to the development of the Pastoral Land Law in Mongolia.
Increase the use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Fo
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Summary: This project under the overall umbrella of the VGGT will serve to develop the capacity of stakeholders to implement improvements to tenure arrangements and thereby promote food security and sustainable development. The project is implemented in 19 countries, namely Malawi, Niger, Senegal, South Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Mali, Uganda, Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire; Myanmar, Nepal, Mongolia, Philippines, Indonesia; Kyrgyzstan; Guatemala, Colombia. Improving transparent, equitable, secure access to and control over land, fisheries and forests and protecting the legitimate tenure rights, whether formal or informal, of millions of poor and insecure people, is a critical part of improving food security. The project contributes to this objective through fostering increased understanding on the VGGT use among CSOs and grass roots organizations to boost their contribution to the multi-stakeholder platforms and other tenure-related ongoing processes at country level and strengthening the partnerships for the wider application and implementation of the VGGT at all levels. The project has produced a capacity development manual for CSOs "Putting the Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure into Practice: A Learning Guide for Civil Society Organizations" written in partnership with FIAN International as coordinating the Land and Territory Working Group of the International Planning Commiteee for Food Sovereignty (IPC).
KTH Master Programme Land Management East Africa, Balkans, East Europe, Central Asia
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MSc Land Management Programme at KTH, Sweden on management of land property and use rights. Focus on law, valuation of properties, land development processes etc.
Support for Country Level Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure o
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This project is intended to form part of the overall support programme specifically envisaged to provide targeted support for the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (Voluntary Guidelines) at country level over a period of 30 months. Relevant components under this proposal focus on i) building awareness and supporting the development of multi-stakeholder national forums in selected countries; and iii) supporting the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines in Sierra Leone through a multi-sectoral intervention. Component 3 will focus on providing technical support to Sierra Leone in the following five thematic areas: Legal Framework Assessment, Land Administration and Enabling Technologies, Fisheries Tenure, Forestry Tenure and Right to Food.