The Dashboard: How People-Centered Land Monitoring Can Contribute to the Realization of the SDGs and VGGTs
Ward Anseeuw et all
CIRAD international Land Coalition,
The adoption of the SDGs and VGGTs, and the recent promotion of key land indicators
to Tier II status, has turned a spotlight onto gaps in the existing informational ecosystem
and the limits to available data. Moreover, it has created an opportunity, and a moment
for reflection: What changes to land governance are the most important to monitor, and
how can we build local capacity to measure those changes? It was in the spirit of promoting people-centered land governance, recognizing that a number of civil society
organizations are well – if not the best – positioned to measure certain changes to land
governance on the ground, that the ILC’s Dashboard tool was conceived. Relying on a
common set of indicators defined in regional consultations by organizations engaged in
land monitoring, the Dashboard prioritizes populations and data often underrepresented
in national statistics. Today, with pilots beginning in several countries, the tool can offer
important lessons about how civil society can contribute to the realization of the SDGs and VGGTs.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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