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 456 - 460 of 809Andean Forests and Climate Change (ANFOR)
General
The project is well embedded in the SDC Global Programme Climate Change's global approach to face climate change in the land-use sector through increased regional cooperation and strengthened joint information and negotiation platforms. The fundamental rationale of ANFOR is that through the consolidation and up scaling of advanced conservation mechanisms, significant improvements in the conservation and sustainable management of Andean forests will be reached, improving the livelihoods of Andean farmers and concurrently addressing climate change.
Forest Sector Support Program (PASF)
General
PASF supports the rural sector program PNSR through the Ministry of Environment. Focus is on forestry, climate change adaptation, institutional reform, institutional capacity building, capacity building of non-governmental actors as well as the set-up of the national fund "Fonds d'Intervention pour l'Environnement (FIE)".
Public-Private Partnership for the acceleration of the implementation of the law on rural land
General
The overall objective of the project is to guarantee land tenure security and access to land for all citizens, in particular for smallholder producers. The specific objective of the project is to accelerate the implementation of land laws and ensure their applicability for all layers of society. The project aims particularly to mitigate conflicts by clarifying and issuing land rights to beneficiaries.. The project is structured around three components: - Component 1 is to strengthen the capacities of the Central Administration, the Regional Directorates of Agriculture and the Districts and Sub-districts, - Component 2 concerns the devolution of responsibilities to local administrations including (awareness of the villages, organization of land delimitation, etc.) by an inter-professional agricultural organization well established in the field, - Component 3 seeks to strengthen inter-ministerial monitoring capacity, coordination and synergy, in particular between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of interior Affaires.
National Rural Development Programme Central and Eastern Regions (ORIENTE)
General
The programme aims to improve productivity and infrastructure to integrate 6,000 disadvantaged households into the country's social and economic mainstream in the central and eastern regions of Guatemala (El Progreso, Zacapa, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Santa Rosa, Cuilapa). It also builds up the role of rural grass-roots organizations, involving participants in planning and managing activities, to complement Guatemala's decentralization programme. Special attention is given to creating income-earning opportunities for women and to empowering women in general. On land and natural resource governance, the programme aims to empower rural poor populations and improve their self-esteem, so they may actively and systematically participate in planning. The programme provides support for land titling processes for rural women and for strengthening the decentralization process (in municipalities) through training in rural development, management, decentralization, participation and gender.
Biodiversity and sustainable land management
General
The framework conditions established by the ministry of Environment in Namibia to support a sustainable management of natural resources have improved