Currently, WAW team is at the reshaping process of the programme.

World Agriculture Watch is reshaping its programme to develop phased national projects in 21 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In Asia, the pilot countries include Viet Nam, Indonesia and the Philippines, along with the three rubber-producing countries of Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand.

The six pilot-phase countries (El Salvador, Niger, Madagascar, Senegal, Tunisia and Viet Nam) are now in the process of scaling up the initiative. Most of them have started or plan to set up national farm observatories and some have expressed interest in extending the WAW initiative to other parts of their countries.

Based on the outcome of the pilot phase, the WAW Secretariat has produced a five-year programme document for donors. This programme aims to provide a coherent framework for the development of WAW in more countries, while simultaneously scaling up the initiative in pilot countries.

The WAW team has also produced a document outlining WAW's main methodological tools and the results of the pilot phase. 

There are a number of projects in the formulation stage, for example, a project to identify innovative farmers that cope well with climate change in El Salvador and projects on family-based natural rubber plantations in Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand. WAW is collaborating on initiatives with Pakisama (the National Confederation of Small Farmers and Fishers Organizations) in the Philippines, with the Viet Nam Farmer's Union, and with le Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et de Producteurs de l'Afrique de l'Ouest’s (ROPPA) on its family farm observatories in West Africa. WAW is also in talks with Indonesia’s Oil Palm Farmers Union (SPKS), the INOBU research institute and the Government of Indonesia to formulate a project to identify better independent smallholders in oil-palm production.

WAW places strong emphasis on partnerships, the programme’s most important assets. To date, WAW has forged more than 20 partnerships with various entities. These include regional family-farmer platforms, which will be the main access point for project implementation, including ROPPA in West Africa, the Asian Farmers Association (AFA) in Asia and REAF (the Specialized Meeting on Family Farming in Mercosur) in Latin America.

WAW also hopes to develop a strong collaboration with the Forest and Farm Facility (a partnership between FAO, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and AgriCord), with which it shares common goals.

Partnerships with international organizations and forums include the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), which has supported WAW from the outset and was a stakeholder in the pilot phase, AgriCord, the World Rural Forum (which has a memorandum of understanding with FAO that includes WAW), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR) and the International Land Coalition (ILC).

WAW also has technical partners, spanning research institutions and academia, which will provide training sessions and technical guidance and work to make consistent improvements to the methodology.

Last, but by no means least, WAW’s partner pilot countries will share their experience and know-how with their neighbours, especially in relation to establishing national observatories, in a prime example of the programme’s South–South cooperation efforts.

The upcoming Decade of Family Farming (2019‒2028) is an opportunity to strengthen these links. Our partnerships will come into their own in the global Mapping Family Farming project, which will be designed and conducted in consultation with a broad range of civil-society organizations.

WAW’s next steps will be:

At country level, 

-to define focal points (public entities in charge of agricultural data and national family-farmer organization platforms) for gradually building a network that can be scaled up by developing links between partners and regional experiences; and 

-to formulate national observatory projects.

At Headquarters level in Rome: 

-to finalize the website, the formulation of national and regional projects with national stakeholders, and facilitate contacts with donors; and 

-to finalize the details of the Mapping Family Farming project with partners.

WAW’s tools and methods, as well as its network, can be mobilized to support the implementation of the UN Decade of Family Farming. Most notably, it can provide updated data and assist with the formulation of new and targeted policies by farm type.

The WAW Secretariat will also participate in the World Rural Forum’s VI Conference, A Decade for Family Farming, from 25 to 29 March 2019 in Bilbao, Spain.