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| THU 18 Mar 2010 |  |
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International Development Cooperation in Flux, Can it Deliver?
International development cooperation is in flux, casting a shadow over its ability to deliver, in an optimal manner, the internationally agreed ‘priority list’, the Millennium Development Goals. The crux of the matter for aid delivery is matching global pro-poor policies and the climate change agenda. This sums up Executive Secretary Luc Gnacadja’s opening remarks to the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development Annual General Assembly held 26-27 January in Rome, Italy. Harmonizing and aligning development aid, assessing the social and economic impacts of sustainable land management and land ownership, scaling up and disseminating good practices and success stories and supporting local governance structures are pre-requisites to addressing these challenges, Gnacadja asserted. Gnacadja underlined the important role the Platform plays in agriculture and rural development, and urged it to assess and advise on how official development assistance could also serve as a tool to orient private investments towards country-based priority-setting for the sector. The full statement is available here, and the presentation. The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, established in 2003, is a network of bilateral and multilateral donors and international financial institutions with a vision of Agriculture and Rural Development aid that reduces poverty and strengthens the sector. Ownership, alignment, harmonization, managing for results and mutual accountability are its guiding principles. This year’s General Assembly was preceded by a meeting on Land, Investment and Development held on 24 January to share knowledge on land policy, governance, investment and rural development policies. As a follow-up to the first Land Day held on the margins of the Climate Change negotiations in June last year, the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification will hold the second Land Day also on the margins of the 32nd session of the subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change planned for early June 2010 in Bonn, Germany. The third Land Day will take place on the margins of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity in October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan.
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