Tackling rural poverty, together

Donors in Ghana agree on new ways to achieve the MDGs within Ghana's Poverty Reduction Strategy

On Thursday March 1, 2007 17 donors signed the Ghana Joint Assistance Strategy (G-JAS) in Accra.

Ghana – Joining up behind a country-led approach

On June 18–22, 2007, the Second European Forum on Sustainable Rural Development will take place in Berlin

The European Commission, the German Presidency of the European Union and the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development will convene the Second European Forum on Sustainable Rural Development.

European Rural Forum

Improving the division of labour between donors is a core challenge for the effectiveness of development co-operation

The Platform would like to draw your attention to the recent study 'Towards a Division of Labour in European Development Co-operation' from the German Development Institute and commissioned by the BMZ.

Study on Division of Labour in EU Development Co-operation

Raising awareness of Platform's activities

On February 13, the Platform held a Brown Bag Lunch at the headquarters of Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) in Stockholm.

Brown Bag Lunch at Sida HQ

Support of the Platform to WDR 2008 and latest on-the-edge findings of the WDR 2008 team

The Donor Consultation Workshop on World Development Report 2008, held on December 8, 2006, gave a good overview to latest on-the-edge findings of the WDR team and for the first time provided the opportunity for the wider donor community to directly interact with the team.

Donor Consultation Workshop on WDR 2008

New strategic partnerships and new study on 'Indicators for Agriculture and Rural Development'

The first two days of the meeting were aimed to help piece together a clearer picture of what works and what doesn’t as donors and development partners join forces in a steady progress towards a new architecture of international development assistance.

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Two-day General Meeting and Donor Consultation Workshop on WDR 2008 successfully held in Washington, D.C. on December 4-5 and 8, 2006

If you want to read the synthesis report of our General Meeting in Washington, D.C., taking place on December 4 and 5, 2006, please read on here.

If you want to read the final minutes of the Platform-organised Donor Consultation Workshop on World Development Report 2008 on December 8, 2006, please read on here.

Strengthening coordinated donor support for CAADP

We and our members see agriculture as a vital component of sustainable economic growth in African countries. We therefore take seriously the 'wake-up call' issued by the Progress Report on Agriculture at the 7th Africa Partnership Forum (APF) Meeting on October 26–27, 2006, in Moscow.

Answering to the wake-up call issued by the APF, we together with USAID convened the first Donor Consultation Workshop on CAADP on November 15 and 16, 2006, devising ways to strengthen coordinated donor support for CAADP.

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