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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Displaying 536 - 540 of 809National Agriculture Project (NAP)
General
The goal of the project is to sustainably raise smallholder farmers' productivity through improved water resources and integrated agricultural production. The project is national in scope, targeting 81,292 poor and food-insecure households with particular attention to households headed by women, which will receive priority in land allocation in new irrigation zones. It supports the intensification of irrigated and rain-fed crop production through the provision of fertilizers, agrochemicals, improved seeds, conservation agriculture trials. Land and natural resource governance related activities include the promotion of small livestock investments for the lowest-income earners and women with limited access to land. The project will set-out guidelines for agricultural development aiming at optimizing production and productivity through an integrated watersheds management.
National Programme for Sustainable Human Development (PNDHD)
General
The goal of the programme was to fight against poverty in the poorest areas of the Comorian rural population (Ngazidja, Moheli, Anjouan) and establish a Community system management and sustainable exploitation of natural capital, while providing 10,000 beneficiary households with increased agricultural productivity, it will improve incomes, the food situation and living conditions of the households. On land and natural resource governance, the programme goal was to strengthen governance at the local and community level and good land management. It introduced a pilot for land tenure security for the first three years of its operation, it supported the rehabilitation of land, sustainable land management at the local level including environmental conservation and agricultural production, livestock development and promotion of artisanal fisheries. Women's access to land was recognized as a priority. The political dialogue focused on women's access to land.
CAR II - Environmental Land Registration (BMZ/KfW)
General
The projects primary goal is the implementation of the environmental registry (Cadastro Ambiental Rural – CAR). All landowners and land users are obliged to register themselves in the environmental registry and provide information in electronic form about the use of their land. The registry is designed to help the Brazilian authorities enforce compliance with forest protection legislation.
Transitional Programme of Post Conflict Reconstruction (PTRPC)
General
The programme aim was to regenerate the livelihoods of the rural environment, rebuild social capital including the rehabilitation of human dignity and restore food security among 74,000 poor and vulnerable households in the provinces of Bujumbura Rural and Bururi in the west and Ruyigi in the east. It worked to restructure farm production through donation of cattle and through the building of plant nurseries. It will support various training projects focusing on community development, legal issues, HIV/Aids and literacy. Legal support has been offered to women and vulnerable groups who have been subjected to violence during the conflict. supported the rehabilitation of 480 hectares of reclaimed swamp and the recovery and development of 1850 ha of additional marsh. Land and natural resource governance related activities provided legal support and regeneration of livelihoods of poor rural women; support for local governance; legal assistance including training of members of the rural community about their rights and duties as citizens, and legal assistance and legal representation.