Global Donor Platform for Rural Development

Jobs for Youth in the Agrifood Sector: Leveraging micro and small enterprises The webinar, organized by the GDPRD's Thematic Working Group on Rural Youth Employment, will showcase experiences from two projects aimed at promoting more and better jobs for youth in Africa's agrifood sector.

Be a part of the Donor Platform's 2024 Annual General Assembly. Register now! The 2024 Annual General Assembly will be held on 26-27 November 2024 at IFAD in Rome, Italy and on Zoom. This year's theme, "Financing Food Systems Transformation and Rural Revitalization: Opportunities and Challenges", will focus on the rethinking of how limited official development assistance (ODA) can be best used in food and nutrition.

Bridging the Gap: A new working group tackles sustainable and blended finance for food systems Go behind the scenes with Co-Chairs Tuleen Alkhoffash, Senior Portfolio Manager in the Private Sector Operations Division at IFAD and Songbae Lee, Agri-Finance Lead at the USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security.

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Unleashing the Catalytic Power of Donor Financing to Achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2
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.
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Meet the Platform

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development is a vibrant partnership, advocacy and knowledge network of key donors focusing on food security and rural development.

Our Members and Partners

Bruce Campbell, Switzerland

We have to be careful we do not gamble with people’s livelihoods. Food system transformation has to be taken in incremental steps with positive proofs of concept rather than through ideology.

Bruce Campbell, Switzerland

We have to be careful we do not gamble with people’s livelihoods. Food system transformation has to be taken in incremental steps with positive proofs of concept rather than through ideology.

H.E. Jeanine M. Cooper, Republic of Liberia

Impact … is not felt at the level of beautiful documents that are shared, but in how you move the needle and shift the reality of the lives of rural people and all of the people in the food systems.

H.E. Jeanine M. Cooper, Republic of Liberia

Impact … is not felt at the level of beautiful documents that are shared, but in how you move the needle and shift the reality of the lives of rural people and all of the people in the food systems.

Lee Ann Jackson, OECD

What’s shifted over the years is the recognition that to change agriculture and food, you must adopt a food systems approach. We’re asking the sector to feed the world. It must be environmentally sustainable and ensure livelihoods for all food systems actors.

Lee Ann Jackson, OECD

What’s shifted over the years is the recognition that to change agriculture and food, you must adopt a food systems approach. We’re asking the sector to feed the world. It must be environmentally sustainable and ensure livelihoods for all food systems actors.

Federica De Gaetano, Italy

The Donor Platform’s commitment to information sharing and member updates has contributed to a significant level of alignment and cooperation on rural development and food security issues.

Federica De Gaetano, Italy

The Donor Platform’s commitment to information sharing and member updates has contributed to a significant level of alignment and cooperation on rural development and food security issues.

Ron Hartman, IFAD

We need to find ways of building resilience because we can’t afford, as a global community, a continued sort of humanitarian and emergency support. We try and catalyse our investments to influence policy to have an even greater impact on promoting sustainable food system transformation.

Ron Hartman, IFAD

We need to find ways of building resilience because we can’t afford, as a global community, a continued sort of humanitarian and emergency support. We try and catalyse our investments to influence policy to have an even greater impact on promoting sustainable food system transformation.