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 646 - 650 of 809Mpumalanga Rural Development Programme (MRDP)
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The strategies for rural development and the mechanisms of cooperation of the sector authorities in the province of Mpumalanga have improved and are being implemented on the local level under the direction of the Ministry of Agriculture
Together against land grabbing: Strengthening civil society, easy-to-understand land rights
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Strengthening civil society to defend their land rights.
Sector Project "Land Governance"
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Poverty and conflict reducing land policy and land division are increasingly accounted for in development strategies and activities of the partner countries in Africa, Asia, Southeastern Europe and Latin America as well as in international cooperation.
Supporting Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisher
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FAO will add value to the Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) project through an approach known as transversal support. This approach is aimed at providing support across a number of projects/activities and it will support the mainstreaming and coordination of the VGGT into national activities in the four countries. This will ensure that the impact of the MRLG will be strengthened and, by supporting a holistic approach to land, fisheries and forests, extended to include the broader scope of interrelated natural resources. The transversal support will include a strong capacity development element, aimed at national counterparts and stakeholders through the application of public goods already produced by FAO.
Private Sector/MSME Competitiveness
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The project objective is to create sustainable conditions for enterprise creation and growth. land tenure activities include: (i) Convert old survey and mapping data to fit the new geodetic surveying infrastructure, and awareness-raising of the professionals about using the new system; (ii) Implement a new surveying and mapping policy in line with the modernized infrastructure; (iii) Strengthen the collection, storage and dissemination of geospatial data and improving the use of land and resource data for land use planning; (iv) Review, prepare, and process legislative pieces (e.g., a Land Acquisition and Compensation Bill, a Property Valuation Bill, and Regulations for the above), and strengthen land tribunals; (v) Support the implementation of participatory land use planning approaches in urban areas and regularization of land tenure in urban informal settlements including in Mwanza and Dar es Salaam where initial work has already been done; (vi) Review past experiences in undertaking government land inventories including in Ghana and Botswana and draw lessons and good practices that could guide preparation of guidelines for similar exercises in Tanzania; (vii) Implement regulatory changes (such as elimination of the requirement to obtain a Tax Clearance Certificate, streamlining of the procedure of notarization and execution of the sale agreement and preparation of the transfer deed, elimination of the inspection to value the property, etc.); (viii) Reorganize workflow processes of the land registry to improve the efficiency of the process to register and transfer a property.