ANGOC shared the experience of the Land Watch Asia (LWA) campaign in defending land rights and using its land monitoring initiative as evidence-based advocacy in two side events organized by the International Land Coalition (ILC) during the International Civil Society Week (ICSW) on 25-28 April 2016 in Bogota, Columbia.

Presenting an Asian perspective, ANGOC stressed the rationale and importance on land rights in reducing hunger and poverty, with land beyond just an economic commodity. ANGOC likewise shared the rationale of the land monitoring initiative of LWA, the process that led to the formulation of the indicators, the use of the monitoring reports and lessons learned.

ILC members present during the ICSW agreed to pursue the development of a monitoring system of ILC that will: i) be used as a tool to track progress of the implementation of ILC’s strategic framework, ii) assess how the achievements of ILC’s strategic framework contribute to the attainment of the SDGs, VGGT and Africa Land Policy Initiative, and iii) serve as a simple and sustainable system for members of ILC to monitor how they contribute to the outcome of the ILC strategic framework.