Land Watch Asia partners met last 15 September at the Frangipani Living Arts Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to push forward the land reform monitoring initiative, this time taking on a different approach – by exploring collaboration with academic and research institutions to strengthen the credibility of advocacy work, and expand learning opportunities from monitoring together. At the meeting, partners from Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Nepal, committed to monitoring in 2014, which will generally focus on land conflicts and land grabbing.
The Land Watch Asia campaign’s Land Reform Initiative was launched in 2010, to develop CSOs’ capacities in undertaking monitoring of land tenure and access to land; and to strengthen CSOs’ evidence-based advocacy. Since then, LWA partners in seven countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines) have used indicators on land disputes and evictions, land grabbing, landownership, tenancy, budgets on land reform, and land-related policies.
For more information on the land reform monitoring initiative, please refer to: CSO Land Reform Monitoring in Asia (2012) or kindly contact angoc30@gmail.com.
