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 261 - 265 of 809Smallholder Market-led Project (SMLP)
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The purpose of the project is to enhance food and nutrition security and incomes among smallholder producer families of 10,355 households through diversified agricultural production and market linkages in the rain-fed Middleveld and Lowveld areas of the Lubombo and Shiselweni regions. On land and natural resource governance, the Chief's Letter of Consent will be used as means to transform communal grazing land in land for commercial agriculture and as a means to give specific groups of smallholders the usufruct of such land in return for guarantees on sustainable use. In parallel to the CDC-led appraisals, the Project will prepare GIS base maps recording land use and land resources from available remote sensing information and other existing secondary sources.
Promoting the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fish
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The FAO country office in Brazil has promoted the use and dissemination of the Voluntary Guidelines at the national level. Among one of the first activities will be to translate the Voluntary Guidelines into Portuguese. This will prove extremely useful for work in other Portuguese-speaking countries and regions. The Voluntary Guidelines are being used as a reference document to enrich discussion and feed into policy and framework development in government conferences and committees (including II Conferência Nacional de Solidariedade e Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentável and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentável – CONDRAF). Discussions with all stakeholders are also being facilitated on implementation strategies for the Voluntary Guidelines in Brazil.
Rights Link Project
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Communication and cooperation between actors for improving participation in governance and natural resources; Access to legal advise on land rights; knowledge and capacity of government agencies in land- and natural resource management
Lindi and Mtwara Agribusiness Support project LIMAS
General
Lindi and Mtwara Agribusiness Support project ‘LIMAS’ is a bilateral development project, funded jointly by the Governments of Tanzania and Finland. The project is implemented in accordance with the development policies of the two Governments, MKUKUTA in Tanzania and Finnish Development Policy, which both target at poverty alleviation and include gender equity, sustainable use of natural resources, adaptation and resilience to climate change and reducing of inequalities and as central cross-cutting objectives.LIMAS is being implemented in Newala and Liwale and their neighbouring Districts in Mtwara and Lindi regions. The project started with an inception phase in late 2010. The implementation commenced in July 2011 will continue till December 2015. This includes a non-cost extension of 16.5 months.
Strengthening Land Governance
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The recent transition to market economy and creation of land market has led to increased land speculation. In the face of weak legal frameworks and institutions for their protection, the land access of women and men farmers, especially those (mostly ethnic minorities) living in upland shifting cultivation areas, is at risk. Land governance will be a central issue in any political dialogue with ethnic leaders. The rapidly evolving political environment presents both opportunities and risks for equitable land governance.