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Technical  Support  Meeting  -­‐  Monitoring  

Tuesday  March  12,  2013  /  09.30  –  12.30h    

CSOs  in  attendance:  Natalia  Landivar  (FIAN),  Martin  Wolpold-­‐Bosien  (FIAN),   Rehema  Bavuma  (WFF),  Luca  Chinotti  (Oxfam),  Alberta  Guerra  (Action  Aid),  Mauro   Conti  (IPC),  Nora  McKeon  (Terra  Nuova)  

 

The  technical  group  consists  of  UN-­‐Rome  based  agencies,  Civil  Society,  and  Private   Sector.  CSO  members  of  the  technical  group  have  yet  to  be  confirmed  by  the  CSM   working  group  and  communicated  to  the  CFS  Secretariat.  

 

Mark  McGuire,  CFS:    

There  are  2  streams  of  work  for  this  group:  

1. Monitoring  decisions  and  recommendations  coming  out  of  the  CFS   2. Monitoring  the  outcomes/impacts  at  national  and  regional  level      

It  is  envisioned  that  the  results  of  the  Technical  support  work  will  be  shared  with   the  wider  membership  of  the  OEWG  during  the  June  workshop.  

 

The  Chair  of  the  meeting  (CFS  Secretariat)  asked  each  participant  to  provide  a  brief   explanation  on  what  are  good  examples  of  existing  monitoring  systems  and  what  we   could  learn  from  those  systems  in  relation  to  the  two  streams  (more  important  to   understand  the  work  at  the  country  and  regional  level):    

 

David  Palmer,  Voluntary  Guidelines  and  Natural  Resources  Division,  FAO:  

-­‐ One  of  the  results  of  FAO’s  efforts  is  increased  awareness  of  the  VGs  (100,000   newspaper  reports  on  the  VGs,  to  date).  

-­‐ Efforts  to  increase  the  capacity  of  people  to  work  on  improving  governance   of  tenure,  in  particular,  the  development  of  tools  to  even  further  build   capacity    

-­‐ FAO  is  currently  responding  to  requests  from  countries  for  technical   assistance  in  improving  governance  of  tenure.  Currently  working  with  the   Philippines,  Myanmar,  Namibia.    

-­‐ The  ultimate  goal  of  their  efforts  is  to:  raise  awareness,  improve  capacity   development,  and  aid  countries  with  technical  assistance  to  implement   the  guidelines  

 

Martin,  CSM:  

-­‐ Civil  Society  would  like  more  clarity  on  the  workplan  of  the  technical  support   team,  and  the  input  needed  from  civil  society    

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-­‐ Important  to  build  upon  what  has  already  been  agreed  in  the  GSF’s  First   Version  (para.93  specifically)  which  highlights  the  five  principles  that  should   apply  to  monitoring  and  accountability  systems:    

i. They  should  be  human-­‐rights  based,  with  particular  reference  to  the   progressive  realization  of  the  right  to  adequate  food;  

ii. They  should  make  it  possible  for  decision-­‐makers  to  be  accountable;   iii.  They  should  be  participatory  and  include  assessments  that  involve  all  

stakeholders  and  beneficiaries,  including  the  most  vulnerable;   iv. They  should  be  simple,  yet  comprehensive,  accurate,  timely  and  

understandable  to  all…;  

v. They  should  not  duplicate  existing  systems,  but  rather  build  upon  and   strengthen  national  statistical  and  analytical  capacities  

-­‐ Emphasis  on  ensuring  people  are  involved  in  the  monitoring  systems  to  help   increase  accountability.  We  need  indicators  to  hold  actors  accountable.     -­‐ There  is  a  wealth  of  applied  methodologies  from  civil  society  

-­‐ Important  initiatives  at  the  regional  level  will  be  discussed  in  a  meeting  in   June  in  Guatemala,  CONSEA  is  a  good  example  at  the  national  level  

 

Rehema,  CSM:    

-­‐ For  the  majority,  our  work  is  qualitative  in  nature  –  working  with  local  

communities  we  can  identify  situations  where  CFS  decisions  may  be  relevant,   where  they  have  been  applied,  or  where  they  are  needed.  

 

Marco,  FAO  (Bangladesh  experience):  

-­‐ Monitoring  CFS  decisions  is  a  complicated  and  challenging  task  

-­‐ We  should  not  be  too  restrictive  with  only  monitoring  specific  CFS  decisions   -­‐ For  Bangladesh,  not  all  initiatives  are  direct  outcomes  of  what  is  happening  

in  the  CFS,  but  are  still  very  important  and  relevant  

-­‐ Important  to  monitor  investments,  decisions  and  progress  made  towards   national  objectives  

  WFP:    

-­‐ The  problem  is  that  people  are  interested  in  writing  indicators,  but  less  so  in   tracking  the  indicators  

-­‐ Provided  the  example  of  WFP’s  assessment  and  monitoring  work  done  at  the   community  and  household  level.    Rely  heavily  on  the  food  consumption  score   –  a  household  survey  –  a  recall  of  what  people  have  consumed.    

 

Robin,  Private  Sector  Mechanism:    

-­‐ Strongly  encourages  the  use  of  existing  mechanisms.    

-­‐ Important  to  look  at  the  merits  of  quantitative  data  to  keep  us  focused  on  the   profound  food  issues  we  face.      

-­‐ We  can  look  at  different  levels  of  quantitative  data  –  for  example  the  number   of  countries  that  have  requested  support  from  FAO  on  VG  implementation,   etc.  

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-­‐ Currently  there  is  no  core  resource  to  do  the  monitoring  work.  Important  to   keep  the  eyes  of  plenary  on  the  actual  ground  issues  and  make  them  

conscious  of  how  their  work  is  having  a  broader  impact.      

IFAD:    

-­‐ Wanted  clarification  of  what  type  of  monitoring  we  are  discussion  -­‐  uptake   by  the  governments,  implementation  or  broad  communication  of  the   decisions?  

-­‐ Worried  that  the  word  “Innovative”  could  mean  something  “new”.  Believes   that  we  should  build  on  what  already  exists.    

 

Alberta,  CSM:  

-­‐ Has  there  already  been  discussion  on  the  expected  results  of  the  workshop  in   June?  We  need  to  draw  some  principles  based  on  the  GSF  on  what  the  

mechanism  will  look  like,  define  the  objectives  of  the  workshop  and  then   plan  the  work  from  now  until  June.    

 

Mary  Mubi,  Chair  of  the  Monitoring  OEWG:      

The  Chair  of  the  OEWG  clarified  questions  raised  by  participants.  According  to  her   understanding:    

-­‐ The  purpose  of  the  technical  team  is  to  have  better  comprehension  of,  and   map  out  current  frameworks/initiatives  at  the  national,  regional  and  global   levels.  What  exists,  what  are  the  gaps,  and  what  do  we  need  to  build  on?   -­‐ The  roadmap  is  as  follows:  The  technical  team  will  collect  this  

information  to  feed  into  the  workshop  of  the  OEWG  in  June,  which  will   then  look  at  the  information  and  plan  a  way  forward  on  what  to  present   to  the  CFS.    

-­‐ We  should  not  shy  away  from  innovation,  but  should  also  not  reinvent  the   wheel.  This  should  be  a  mapping  exercise  to  build  on  existing  frameworks.     -­‐ First  and  foremost,  it  should  be  useful  at  the  country  level.  Technicians  

should  be  able  to  discuss  with  and  convince  governments  that  they  need   evidenced  based  policies.    

-­‐ Communication  efforts  for  awareness  raising  purposes  are  extremely  

important,  but  very  behind.    You  can’t  monitor  decisions  if  people  do  not  yet   know  the  decisions/products.    

 

CFS  Secretariat:    

-­‐ Link  communications  strategy  to  each  of  the  major  outputs  of  the  CFS  -­‐  as   these  products  come  out,  communication/outreach  needs  to  be  built  within   them.    

-­‐ Evaluating  the  impact  of  the  CFS  through  the  programme  of  work  and   priorities  through  a  results-­‐based  framework.  Every  4-­‐5  years  have  an   evaluation  of  the  CFS  to  see  if  outputs/products  have  been  used  and  if  there   is  any  impact  of  these  efforts  through  an  indicator  system.  

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-­‐ Need  to  better  define  the  scope  of  this  technical  support  team  -­‐  what  can  we   do  in  the  next  few  months?  

-­‐ In  order  to  prepare  something  for  CFS  in  October  –  we  need  to  submit  some   recommendations  by  the  end  of  July.  Need  to  map  out  our  work  plan  from   now-­‐June  and  then  for  the  workshop.        

 

Robin,  PSM:  

-­‐ Suggested  that  the  technical  team  develop  a  short  list  (10-­‐15)  of  

reporting  that  exists  at  the  country/regional  level.  The  June  workshop   can  then  select  the  top  5  to  be  submitted  to  the  CFS  Plenary.    

-­‐ Awareness  and  government  uptake  are  two  quantitative  means  that  can  be   measured.  

  CSM:  

-­‐ Reiterated  that  the  technical  support  team  has  3  tasks  which  should  guide   the  work:  

a) Elements  of  an  innovative  mechanism;    

b) What  are  the  characteristics  and  composition  of  existing  frameworks   (mapping)  and    

c) Using  the  existing  methodologies  find  the  appropriate   indicators/data/reporting  frameworks.  

-­‐ 5  principles  established  by  the  GSF  should  be  the  basis  for  defining  the  

criteria  by  which  we  select  the  top  5  examples.      

WFP:  

-­‐ We  need  something  effective  not  necessarily  innovative  

-­‐ For  each  of  the  CFS  decisions,  we  should  break  it  down  to  the  benchmarks  to   achieve  at  the  country  level,  then  to  track  them.  Then  a  scoring  system   (green,  yellow,  red)?  This  would  allow  tracking  on  where  each  state  is  in   relation  to  these  decisions.  

 

Martin,  CSM  –  

-­‐ Reiterated  the  importance  of  innovation  in  working  in  a  multi-­‐stakeholder   system  

-­‐ The  mapping  exercise  must  be  in  line  with  the  5  principles.  For  the  June  

workshop  the  5  principles  could  be  used  as  a  preamble  

-­‐ As  of  right  now,  monitoring  the  impact  of  CFS  decisions  will  be  difficult.     Especially  in  relation  to  the  VGs  since  it  is  so  new.  What  we  can  look  at  is   have  they  been  used/disseminated.    

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Mary  Mubi,  Zimbabwe  –    

-­‐ Cannot  just  isolate  monitoring  to  the  CFS  decisions    

-­‐ What  we  must  concentrate  on  now  is  the  level  of  understanding  and   knowledge  of  the  VGs.  

-­‐ The  essence  of  the  matter  is  accountability  at  country  level.    Therefore,   country  accountability  mechanisms  are  key  

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  CFS  –    

Next  steps:    

-­‐ From  this  meeting,  we  will  summarize  the  findings,  send  to  members  of   technical  group  for  comments,  finalise  to  then  send  to  the  entire  OEWG.   -­‐ Secretariat  to  send  the  matrix  out  to  the  technical  team  for  further  inputs   -­‐ Secretariat  to  start  collating  information  on  existing  mechanisms  from  

technical  group  members  

-­‐ The  minutes  from  this  meeting  will  provide  guidance  on  what  information   we  should  be  collecting  and  based  on  what  criteria.  

-­‐ Need  to  clarify  what  the  outcome  of  the  June  OEWG  workshop  will  be.      

CSM  -­‐    

-­‐ Civil  society  is  looking  to  organise  an  internal  workshop  just  prior  to  OEWG   workshop  in  June  and  so  it  would  be  important  to  have  a  concrete  timeline    

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