Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, Annual General Assembly

Looking back from the year 2030, the 2017 AGA will take a closer look at where rural transformation might be a decade from now and what role agriculture will play considering the new SDGs, the growing changes in Official Development Assistance (ODA), the challenges of climate change impact, the fact that millions of low-income people in rural as well as urban areas, are still highly food insecure.

Structure of the AGA

Day 1: Exploring the multiple views of development partners, donors, civil society and private sector on how the rural space in 2030 may look like and what it takes to get there. (Open to Platform members, partners and invited guests)

Day 2: High-level forum where heads of programmes/departmental managers will politically and strategically frame the future deliberations of the Platform on donor/IFI support to rural Transformation. (Open to Platform members, partners and invited guests)

Day 2 afternoon: Members will focus on the achievements of the Platform in 2016, the strategic and programmatic changes in member organisations and the work programme and other operational details. (Open to Platform members)