Global Donor Platform for Rural Development: Tackling rural poverty together

摘要

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development was born in 2004 to face the new challenges in development cooperation so as to fight rural poverty in a strategic alliance. Its members now unite 29 multi-and bilateral donors in a common endeavour to get the rural development agenda right. The last decade has witnessed a growing concern that development cooperation was not effective - in many countries poverty did not reduce substantially or even grew, as for example in sub-Saharan Africa. The years of uncoordinated and isolated donor projects with little or no connection to national development strategies are said to be one of the causes. At the same time, there is growing global political commitment to meet the international aid target of allocating 0.7 percent of GNP to Overseas Development Assistance (ODA).The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), to which most donor nations have signed up to, aims to lead development assistance into a new era. The main goal is to eradicate misalloca-tions of the past and move towards greater coherence and collaboration. General budget support, joint assistance strategies, alignment to national priorities and strategies, and division of labour constitute some of the new instruments of the emerging aidarchitecture.