In continued efforts to improve access to data and information on land governance issues, the Global Donor Working Group on Land and the Land Portal Foundation have updated the Land Projects and Programmes Database, now containing 3871 projects.
The 2024 Financing for Sustainable Development Report: Financing for Development at a Crossroads finds that financing challenges are at the heart of the crisis and imperil the SDGs and climate action. The window to rescue the SDGs and prevent a climate catastrophe is still open but closing rapidly.
In our latest segment, Andrea Zinn, Director at Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) and Senior Manager at Aceli Americas, Aceli Africa, talks about ways to amplify donor funding for agricultural development and why donor coordination with the private sector is so important to reach the missing middle.
22-23 May 2024 | Kigali, Rwanda |Hybrid. The Conference aims to accelerate efforts at the global, regional and country levels to improve the lives of young people around the world. It will bring together a diverse range of leaders – governments, businesses, educators, and young people themselves.
18-19 November 2024 | Rio de Janeiro | In-person. The G20 Summit marks the culmination of efforts undertaken by the country holding the group's rotating presidency. It's a moment for world leaders to endorse agreements negotiated throughout the year and chart a course for tackling global challenges. Leaders from all 19 member countries, along with the African Union and the European Union, are expected to attend.
22-23 September 2024 | New York City, USA | In-person. Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow. The Summit of the Future is a high-level United Nations event bringing world leaders together to shape a better future. It's a chance to rebuild trust in international cooperation and tackle both current and emerging global challenges.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released preliminary official development assistance (ODA) statistics for 2023 on 11 April 2024.
Key takeaways from the 28 March 2024 event “Donors as investment catalysts” on how major donors can best spend their limited aid funds for agricultural finance. Co-organized by the Smallholder and Agri-SME Finance and Investment Network (SAFIN), the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) and the Marketlinks initiative of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
7-9 May 2024 | Nairobi, Kenya, Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) | In-person. The Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health summit will be held to deliberate on Africa’s recent widespread decades-long decline in soil quality of farmland - a phenomenon that continues today and negatively impacts the agricultural production capacity and food security in the continent.
Ji-Yeun Rim, Senior Policy Analyst at OECD, reflects on her leadership role as Co-Chair of the Thematic Working Group on Rural Youth Employment. In this interview, she shares her aspirations for the group and her own experiences on making development happen.
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the enquiry into sustainable finance in agrifood systems conducted in 2023 by the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate for Donor Platform members. The investigation included a series of interviews which explored how donors, philanthropic organizations, public funds and blended capital funds can make their funding effective and act as an incentive for achieving SDG 2.
Wondering what all those terms mean in sustainable finance in food systems and rural development? Here are some definitions of commonly used terminology and key concepts. You can find out more in the joint report by the Donor Platform and the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, which focuses on how to make donors and public funds more catalytic for food systems through sustainable and blended financing approaches.