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During the Land Watch Asia strategic planning meeting in Tagaytay, Andrew Fuys (ILC) led a review of the issues and concerns on land access raised during a regional meetign in Subic in October 2006. For the full documentation of the Subic meeting, click here.
Shortly after the proposed country outline study was presented by Tony Quizon (ANGOC/ CAARD), a workshop was held, grouping the participants into two: South East Asia and South Asia. Below are their feedback. The final version of the country study outline was produced before the strategic planning meeting ended on March 29, 2007.
Jayvee Gargenerra provided an overview of mining policies and operations in the Philippines. Given the oft-ignored threats of mining both to humans and the environment, Phildhrra has organised and sustained an anti-mining campaign. Alyansa Tigil Mina brings together farmers, environmentalist, indigenous peoples and other advocates, calling an end to an unacceptable industry.
This is the final version of the Country Study Outline for the research papers which will be produced out of the Land Watch Campaign. This document was discussed in strategy meeting where focal points for each of the 6 countries:Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines.
On the first day of the plannin-meeting, the participants were asked to express their expectations from this activity as well as to provide updates on tehir organizations.
ESTABLISHING LAND WATCH ASIA
A Regional Planning Meeting
28-30 March 2007, Hotel Dominique, Tagatay City, Philippines
Rationale/Background:
In October 2006, the International Land Coalition (ILC), together with the Consortium of Agrarian Reform (KPA) and the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) organized a regional meeting to analyze the current trends on access to land and agrarian reform in the region, and to identify major areas of interventions to address such gaps.
After the presentation and discussion of country reports and case studies, and consideration of priority issues and key actors, participants discussed what should be ILC’s main objectives in two of its existing work areas: (a) capacity-building and coalition strengthening, and (b) policy, advocacy and monitoring. This discussion yielded two main strategic areas in which ILC should focus efforts with the network in Asia. In reference to the second area, the participants defined ILC’s main objectives as follows:
- Influence formulation of laws and policies that can support land access; resist those which are hostile to people’s land rights and agrarian reform
- Increase effectiveness of implementation, where laws and policies provide for more secure land rights
- Build support for land access at multiple levels (i.e., linking national-regional-global efforts) and among multiple stakeholders
In November 2006, during the Council Meeting of ILC, KPA and ANGOC representatives provided an overview of the outputs of the Asian regional meeting. The need for Land Watch has been re-affirmed by the Council Members, and was identified as one of the priority areas of ILC’s strategic plan for the next four years.
On the other hand, ANGOC is implementing a Land Watch campaign in the Asian region. This initiative aims to establish a platform for generating and sharing knowledge on strategies, approaches and tools to enhance capacities of CSOs in pursuing access to land.
Thus, the ILC global objective of Land Watch and ANGOC’s regional initiative make a perfect fit and complement each other. It is in this context that this regional planning meeting in Asia is being proposed.
Objectives of the Planning-Meeting:
This planning-meeting aims to:
- Discuss and agree on the campaign strategy and outputs of Land Watch Asia
- Formulate country and regional actions plans
- Discuss and agree on the Land Watch platform
See Programme below:
Land Watch Asia Provisional Programme
