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 636 - 640 of 809Technical assitance to Environment Ministry to implement the VGGT for natural resources responsible management
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The project aims at supporting the ministry of environment to implement the new organic code of environment for its aspect on tenure in line with VGGT to recognize, map and register tenure rights in protected areas while contributing to biodiversity protection, reducing tenure insecurity and social conflicts.
Data for Sustainable Development Goals
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This is a project where the Norwegian Mapping Authority, SSB and our respective counterparts in Kyrgyzstan will work together in a joint effort to further improve the efficiency of the Kyrgyz institutions, especially in the field of using maps and register information for production and dissemination of statistics. Experience from Norway has shown that both types of organisations gain from working together, and monitoring and reporting on the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires cooperation between data owners, producers of maps and producers of statistics. Background SRS/DCR has spearheaded major reforms to the land sector in Kyrgyzstan. Impressively, it takes only one day to register a sale or a mortgage. However, there is no solution for distribution of maps via Internet, which is vital for statistical purposes. Maps are currently not easily available and used for preparation of statistics in Kyrgyzstan. Kartverket, SRS and DCR will work closely together with Statistics Norway (SSB) and the National Statistical Committee of Kyrgyzstan (NSC) to integrate geospatial data to serve statistical needs in line with Objective 3.4 of the Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data. Kyrgyzstan also lacks up-to-date photomaps. The current photomaps in use are made in 2002 and do not show changes that occurred since that time. There is an urgent need for new photomaps that are produced from aerial imagery. Likewise, up-to-date line maps in vector form do not currently exist. Such maps are especially needed for Bishkek. The project will ensure access to maps via a national Geoportal (to be developed in the project), inter alia, to provide geographic data for statistical purposes. A main goal of the project is to prepare geographic data (maps) needed for production of statistical data supporting implementation and reporting on Sustainable Development Goals for Kyrgyzstan. This project should be considered as a component to a well-coordinated and integrated effort on strengthening the capabilities of Kyrgyz governmental institutions to provide maps and statistical data for sustainable development. The coordinated efforts will also facilitate use of the various registers at the State Registration Service for production of statistics. Activities 1.Making geographic information available for statistical purposes: ◦Collection of existing maps to support statistics nationwide. Existing maps will be collected, analyzed, upgraded if needed, and stored in a format suitable for distribution online via the geoportal, inter alia, to be used for statistical purposes ◦Development of principles, standards and procedures for data sharing between respective data-holders in Kyrgyzstan. ◦Development of a geoportal for distribution of data. The activity will start with specifying the requirements. 2.Production of photomaps and line maps: ◦Aerial photography and photomap production for 20 000 km2 including Bishkek and surrounding areas, settlements around Issyk-Kul Lake and in Fergana Valley. ◦Preparation of line maps for Bishkek, 150 km2. The line maps will be prepared using the same aerial images as prepared for the photomaps. ◦Quality control of deliverables. All data delivered is subject to quality control, which will be executed by SRS/DCR assisted by Kartverket and with potential support from the State Geodetic Institute in Kyrgyzstan “Goskartographia”. ◦Development of a solution for efficient distribution of photomaps online via the geoportal. 3.Capacity building, public awareness campaign ◦A number of training courses for technical personnel will be held in Norway and Kyrgyzstan, supporting all activities of the project ◦Public awareness campaign will promote the institutional cooperation between Kyrgyz authorities on sharing data and making data available for distribution via the geoportal as well as targeting users of geo-information.
Capacity development: Applying the VGGT for and with Indigenous Peoples (India)
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The programme, jointly developed by the Indigenous Peoples’ team and the Land tenure team in FAO, as well as with the Asia Indigenous Peoples pact and local Indigenous Peoples’ organizations, was specifically designed for Indigenous Peoples of India (Adivasi). It lasted for about one year, and consisted in two sub-national workshops (in north-east India and central India), a period during which the participants conduct research in their communities, and one national workshop carried out in New Delhi, in August 2016 to present the results of this research and discuss with government representatives. The overall objective was to strengthen the recognition and protection of indigenous peoples’ tenure rights and customary tenure systems, exploring practical actions to implement the VGGT in conjunction with national and local laws, in particular the Forest Rights Act.
Strengthening Proximity Justice in Rwanda (SPJR)
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The aim of the programme is through the work of RCN Justice et Democratie to enable citizen participation in proximity justice; facilitate constructive dialogue and raise awareness about the rights and duties of the population, the law and the functioning of proximity justice; seek to safeguard the rights of vulnerable and marginalized groups in particular women’s access to justice and participation in decision making; promote the role of civil society and reinforce the capacity of CSOs to fulfil their mandate; provide support to local authorities to enable them to discharge their duties, including capacity building, knowledge transfer, coaching and materials; conduct and disseminate original research and engage decision makers with evidence-based advocacy; and support exchanges at local and national level between proximity justice and civil society actors.