How people-centered land monitoring can contribute to the realization of the SDGs and VGGTs – The case of the dashboard
Ward Anseeuw, Eva Hershaw
The adoption of the SDGs and VGGTs and the recent promotion of key land indicators to Tier II status have 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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