Indicators

The People’s Monitoring Project

In 2004, FAO members states adopted the Voluntary Guidelines to support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (vii), which should serve to guide states in creating policies that operationalize the right to food, and suggest that States establish mechanisms to monitor the implementation of the guidelines (Guideline 17). In order to produce human rights based monitoring,(viii) the indicators for this alternative monitoring processes were guided and influenced by the Right to Food Guidelines, as well as other human rights-based instruments promoted by civil society within the CFS. Within these, we can mention the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Tenure Guidelines), the Global Strategic Framework (GSF), and the Framework for Action for Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises; and reflecting the links to the Sustainable Development Goals. This monitoring process seeks to go beyond data collection and the activity of States, and analyze whether or not the state is fulfilling its human rights obligations and the structural issues that violate these rights.