1. BIG EYES, BIG DATA: PROGRESSIVE LENS ON LAND M&E EVA BENITA A. TUZON Pilot Projects Division Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific, Bangladesh evatuzon@cirdap.org

2. Outline Introduction Methodology: What is PRISM The land M&E governance journey NOT CONCLUSIONS BUT IMPRESSIONS AND RELEVANCE

3. Why Big Eyes? The stakeholders insights and interests The focus & locus of poverty Land and poverty The function of land M&E The challenge of independent vs integrated M&E CARP Integrated M&E: an elusive dream

4. “What are the information one needs to write? process documentation: PRISM Perceptions, personal meanings Reactions, realization, revelations Impressions, insights, images, innovative practices Statements, suggestions, successful models Memories, memorable experiences

5. Knowledge economy in land governance spectrum of information needs such as generating  data, information, intelligence, knowledge, advise, wisdom and change.  value-addition categories from traditional information services, computer-assisted learning and expert information services as well as the roles of information and communication technologies and human resource in the said knowledge economy.

6. The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program  Background  Development Formula  Institutional mechanisms  Accomplishments

7. Background Political context The fight for democracy The battle for economic structural reform RA 6657, one after another Acts The commitments

8. The undisputed formula Land Tenure Improvement + Land Acquisition and Distribution policy Program Beneficiaries Development + Agrarian Justice= PEACE & PROSPERITY

9. The journey on Land M&E From concepts to proposals The endless policy advocacy work: to replicate and to scale up The challenge for improvement of tools The rhetoric and the unfulfilled intentions The alibis: domains and funds constraints The sad big eyes

10. The Big Land Data The pie graph reveals 4,690,641 hectares: Private Agricultural Lands 2,584,568 hectares or 55% Non-PAL 2,106,703 hectares of 45% The headcount of 2.752 M Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Received the Certificates of Land Ownership Award

11. Delivery of Program Beneficiaries Development The various interventions: outputs delivered To which ARCs Who are the beneficiaries? The issue of service count: the perception of the favored ARCs and the favorite ARBs

12. The Agrarian Justice Which land are you talking about? Legal Assistance on what? Mediation Cases Adjudicated Pending cases

13. From here, where to? The rationalization plan: status quo syndrome The National Convergence Initiative on Sustainable Rural Development: where is the land use act? Big Data: Mapping the land, mapping the ARBs: Big Eyes: So what?