Tackling rural poverty, together

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The members of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development have set up Joint Donor Principles in Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) Programmes to foster greater effectiveness of public investment in ARD.

Adapting the principles of the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action – namely ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual accountability – to the rural context, the Joint Donor Principles for ARD Programmes highlight the need (i) to include key stakeholders in decision making processes, (ii) to ensure coherent policies, (iii) to recognise the importance of inter- and intra-ministerial coordination, (iv) to support ‘internal alignment’, and (v) to focus on donors’ alignment with decentralised levels of government.