FAO Land Tenure Working Paper: Monitoring the Voluntary Guidelines
Monitoring the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests
FAO Land Tenure working papers present an analysis of various aspects of tenure. This study, authored by Philip Seufert and Sofía Monsalve Suárez of FIAN International, is intended to contribute to the effective implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests by exploring ways of monitoring the governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests and providing a civil society perspective on monitoring in the context of the Guidelines.
It provides an overview of existing and commonly used monitoring systems and practices in relation to the tenure of land, fisheries and forests by civil society organisations and institutions. In order to do so, it proposes a schematic categorization of monitoring in the context of land, fisheries and forests. It further presents some illustrative examples of civil society monitoring initiatives and identifies some characteristics of monitoring carried out by CSOs. Based on this information, some recommendations are provided for monitoring in the context of the Voluntary Guidelines. This particularly refers to issues that should be monitored and the way in which this monitoring should be carried out.