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Land Watch Asia: Experiences and Future Direction

Land Watch Asia: Experiences and Future Direction. Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC) 6A Malumanay St., U.P. Village, Diliman, Quezon City Philippines Tel: 63-2-4337653 Email: angoc@angoc.ngo.ph Website: www.angoc.ngo.ph. Overview of Land Watch Asia.

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Land Watch Asia: Experiences and Future Direction

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  1. Land Watch Asia: Experiences and Future Direction Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC) 6A Malumanay St., U.P. Village, Diliman, Quezon City Philippines Tel: 63-2-4337653 Email: angoc@angoc.ngo.ph Website: www.angoc.ngo.ph

  2. Overview of Land Watch Asia a regional campaign to ensure that access to land and agrarian reform are addressed in national and regional development agenda involves civil society organizations in six (6) countries - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines aims to take stock of significant changes in the policy and legal environments; undertake strategic national and regional advocacy activities; jointly develop approaches and tools; and encourage the sharing of experiences on coalition-building and actions on land rights issues

  3. Our achievements so far 6 country studies on access to land - policy and legal environment - past contributions and existing efforts of different sectors in addressing land issues - opportunities, challenges & strategies Scoping studies focusing on the priority programs/thrusts and mechanisms of engagement for dialogues between CSOs and various institutions E-newsletter of Land Watch Asia reaching some 115 organizations and individuals

  4. Insights Heightened understanding for addressing global issues and new dynamics that impact on land access issues, (e.g, free trade affecting small producers, food vs. fuel, impacts & challenges of climate change) but without being drawn away from our main work as land rights advocates. Information gaps - national data on land distribution, land tenure, and landlessness is missing in several countries or is unreliable. This becomes a challenge to monitoring and evaluating the impact of advocacy on land reform as well as the agrarian programs themselves.

  5. Insights The processes leading to the drafting and validating the papers supported exchange of knowledge on land rights and land tenure systems within and across countries in the region. The challenge though is how to use these studies to dialogue with governments and intergovernmental organizations. The studies pointed to both opportunities and challenges in increasing the visibility of land on the agendas of regional intergovernmental bodies (e.g., ASEAN, SAARC). The LWA processes have likewise opened space for dialogue with ADB and CIRDAP.

  6. Insights LWA have identified the need to strengthen relations with domestic organizations in their respective countries and work with them to encourage greater attention to the impact of bilateral agreements and official development assistance impacting on land access in the region. The studies and processes undertaken by Land Watch Asia contributed in defining the direction of ILC to decentralize its operations at the regional and national levels.

  7. Next phase of LWA Campaign engage national governments, intergovernmental and regional organizations and international financial institutions in constructive policy dialogue to uphold the rights of communities to land and food by protecting the gains of land reform legislations and programs; monitor access to land implementation, landlessness and land conflicts in selected countries in Asia through the preparation of NGO “Shadow” Reports and policy briefs

  8. LRI: Way Forward Objective of “monitoring”? Audience? Processes as outputs - facilitate gathering data from govts and IGOs - facilitate spaces for dialogues and debates End product/s? Global? Regional? Data (availability, credibility, affordability) How do we measure our success?

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