Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 2008. "Methods to Monitor the Human Right to Adequate Food". Volume I, Making the Case for Rights-Focused and Rights-Based Monitoring.
- Objective: Presents the framework for monitoring the protection and realization of the right to food - contributing to common understanding of rights-focused monitoring and rights-based monitoring.
- Key characteristics: Focus on right to food at the country level and meant for government use, although CSOs can also use this framework for their own purposes.
- Brief summary: Provides normative framework on which governments can make policies to establish priorities and implement ways to respect, protect and fulfill the right to food. This is focused on the monitoring process itself (rights-focused monitoring).
- Best used for: Ensuring that policy monitoring process is adequate and complies with human rights principles such as participation, transparency, etc.
- Data needed: Requires information on how the monitoring process is conducted. Provides steps on how to identify and develop indicators to monitor the right to food.
- Tested?:
Tested in country studies in Uganda, Brazil, South Africa, India and Canada, with examples throughout, and an annex with what can be learned from the country experiences.
- Possible disadvantages: Quite lengthy for use as a guide (although checklists are excellent and user-friendly).
- Going forward: Lobbying and advocacy for implementing this methodology
- Complementary tools: The rest of the FAO series. Or alone if focused only on the monitoring process.