Only through concrete goals and ongoing, community-based, national and international evaluation can duty-bearers and rights-holders achieve lasting food security.

  Achieving overall economic growth and development goals does not necessarily mean that the human rights of everyone are respected, protected or fulfilled. For this reason, progress towards the realization of the right to food must be monitored, to track whether performance results and the processes that brought them about are consistent with the rights-based approach, and whether programmes successfully target those in need.

  Realistic targets and benchmarks should be formulated, both of them in terms of verifiable indicators. These will not only map progress and serve as incentives to decision-makers, but can be used by individuals and society as a whole to hold the state accountable and thus help strengthen governance.

• What is special about right to food monitoring?
• Who should monitor?