Overview, Monitoring & evaluation

In order to assess the performance of the Initiative, criteria or indicators need to be established and monitored on a regular basis. These indicators will be formal and substantive. The formal indicators will pertain to methodology and techniques (tools), while the substantive indicators will pertain to the result these would achieve in changing and reinforcing behavior. The indicators can also be classified in terms of their focus on measuring change on the short-term and the long-term. See Page Quality assurance and Section Monitoring and evaluation.

A preliminary set of indicators would include the following:

1. Reproduction of land use patterns on maps,
2. Consensus among the local population regarding the land use patterns described,
3. Recording of use rights in the vernacular languages,
4. Establishment of a classification of rights, from «strong» (akin to «ownership») to «weak» (akin to «lease»),
5. Establishment of a lexicon providing equivalent terms of the various indigenous rights in all relevant languages,
6. Monitoring environmental change by means of remote sensing,
7. Observing the degree to which the established rules are being followed by the local population,
8. The extent to which the administration honors the agreement to uphold the local rules,
9. The number of conflicts being adjudicated following the traditional rules,
10. The extent to which the local population defends these rules against intruders (that is, local people not included in the initial assessment of land use patterns),
11. Whether the assessed land rights can be compiled into a rural registry, and
12. The extent to which the local population emulates and implements the approach in other localities.

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