1.
Unlocking Data for Land Governance
Performance Monitoring and Land
Policy Dialogue
World Bank: experience Ukraine and Zambia
6th October, 2017; 9.30 AM

2.
Key issues, challenges and opportunities
1. Opportunity of leveraging government own data for monitoring
progress on VGGT, like land agencies’ administrative data;
2. Assist government & other stakeholders how to analyze and use these
data for assessing progress, management information systems and
evidenced based policy;
3. Provides basis to discuss land data quality, coverage and service
delivery
4. Costs of monitoring system is low – using existing data; mainly needed
for setting up the reporting systems & programming; Once in place,
maintenance costs are low;

3.
Main lessons learned/recommendations
1. Government readiness to report => step towards transparency and
accountability; best to institutionalize requirement for monitoring
2. Being used to analyze access to services, tax revenues etc. => set
priorities; adjust workflows; adjust training of government staff;
developing dashboards including for SDGs.
3. Subnational disaggregation very useful: visualization differences
shows which local governments are doing better and why; facilitate
exchange good practice and identify needs for support
4. Support gender disaggregation; continuous monitoring of women’s
rights (like in land transactions)

4.
Next steps – the way forward
1. Share experience countries with monitoring systems: (set up; use, analysis
policy dialogue etc.)
2. Harness new technologies (connectivity and satellite imagery speed up
service delivery, quality; Electronic systems greatly facilitate monitoring
3. Invest in understanding and use of data; ( easy of analysis (applications;
interfaces); visualize; e-learning
4. Engage all constituencies (parliamentarians, central govt. officials, local
governments; journalist, civil society groups; (potential) investors); will help
broaden understanding of why land reforms matters; support transparency.