effective land monitoring for responsible land governance: an ilc perspective

Effective Land Monitoring for Responsible Land Governance

An ILC perspective

Presentation:

• Introducing ILC• Why Land Monitoring• Complementarities in land monitoring initiatives• Regional and National Land Watch and Observatories• Land Portal• Land Matrix

As a Global Action Network with intergovernmental, civil society and research

organisations among its members, the International Land Coalition (ILC) is well placed to advance multi-stakeholder efforts to monitor and

assess land governance issues.

Our Coalition A global alliance of CSOs and IGOs united to promote a pro-poor land agenda

Where are our members based?

Land Governance

ILC is promoting multi-stakeholder land governance which includes civic processes of policy and law formulation, implementation and evaluation. Monitoring is thus an intrinsic part of land governance

Land Monitoring Land monitoring can strategically contribute to: • Monitoring trends and the linkages between poverty

eradication and secure land tenancy systems; • Identifying gaps in policies, implementation methods and

outcomes achieved; • Understanding the legal frameworks, current land

policies and programmes being implemented by governments, donors and NGOs/CSOs;

• Developing an assessment of the obstacles and failures in promoting land access and secure land tenancy rights;

• Developing and analysing scenarios according to different trends in access to land and natural resources.

ILC work is aimed at:• Enhancing the effectiveness of multi-

stakeholder land monitoring initiatives through evidence-based and informed dialogue

• Contributing to transparency and accountability, facilitating generation, sharing and accessibility of information on land governance issues to strengthening of responsive and accountable actors

• Monitor how good land governance is contributing to the development of inclusive and cohesive societies through the development of land indicators and indices

Regional and National Land Watch

Lessons learned from national land monitoring

• official data sources can be a basis for advocacy and dialogue, but value is added by triangulation and complementary monitoring by other stakeholders;

• credibility of land monitoring is enhanced by a transparent and participatory approach and the early involvement of other stakeholders;

• national land watch initiatives need to be demand driven and context specific, with clear objectives and articulating a clear theory of change, and based on multi-stakeholder engagement to ensure relevance and buy-in;

• importance of gendered monitoring • intergovernmental organisations can play a key role in

facilitating civil society-government engagement, for new state-no state type of land institutions and that this can be an opportunity to manage subjectivity in their own reporting on land governance issues.

www.landportal.info

The Land Matrix

The Observatory on Land Acquisitions

Annalisa Mauro l.mauro@landcoalition.org

Thank you!