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Location: MC C2-131

Date: Tuesday, 21/Mar/2017
8:30am - 10:00am	01-08: Challenges to be Addressed in Protecting Communal Rights Session Chair: Mamadou Baro, University of Arizona, United States of America
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	Land Use Rights, Land Governance Institutions, and Tenure Security Indicators in a Pastoral Community: Evidence from a Baseline Study in the Afar Region, Ethiopia Kate Marple-Cantrell¹, Aidan Schneider¹, Heather Huntington¹, Caleb Stevens² ¹The Cloudburst Group, United States of America; ²USAID, United States of America Towards Securing Community Land Tenure in Kenya A Holistic Approach To Community-Based Natural Resource Governance: Husna Mbarak Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Kenya Strengthening Security of Tenure for Indigenous Bedouins in the West Bank Shlomit Stein Norwegian Refugee Council, Palestine Resilient Pastoral Institution for a Changing Environment: the case of the Stock Routes Co-Management Approach in Western Sudan Faisl Eljack², Harold Liversage¹, Yonas Mekonen¹ ¹International Fund for Agricultural Development; ²Western Sudan Resource Management Program
10:30am - 12:00pm	02-08: Frontier of Sustainable Land Management Research Session Chair: Paola Agostini, The World Bank, United States of America
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	Geospatial Impact Evaluation and Valuation of Land Degradation Projects Juha Ilari Uitto¹, Geeta Batra¹, Anupam Anand¹, Dan Runfola², Ariel BenYishay², Jyoteshwar Nagol³ ¹Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office, Washington DC; ²College of William and Mary, USA; ³University of Maryland, USA Quantifying The Multiple Environmental Benefits Of Sustainable Land Management Projects: An Analysis Of The Land Degradation Portfolio Of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Jean-Marc Sinnassamy, Rahul Madhusudanan, Sonja Teelucksingh, Mattew Foster, Ulrich Apel, Gustavo Fonseca, Asha Bobb-Semple World Bank, Global Environment Facility, United States of America SLM Intervention Impact Assessment Using Remotely Sensed Data Daniel Monchuk, Daniel Ali, Klaus Deininger, Marguerite Duponchel The World Bank, United States of America Building Local Capacity to Monitor Land Use Change and Intervention Impacts Amadou Moctar Dieye Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Senegal Discussant Stefanie Herrmann The World Bank, United States of America Discussant Ran Goldblatt UC San Diego, United States of America
2:15pm - 3:45pm	03-08: Addressing Land Tenure Aspects of REDD+ Session Chair: Esther Mwangi, Center for International Forestry Research, Kenya
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	Creating an appropriate tenure foundation for REDD+: The record to date and prospects for the future William Sunderlin¹, Claudio De Sassi², Erin Sills³, Amy Duchelle⁴, Anne Larson⁵, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo⁶, Abdon Awono⁷, Demetrius Kweka⁸, Thu Ba Huynh⁹ ¹Independent consultant, United States of America; ²Ministry of the Environment, Switzerland; ³North Carolina State University, United States of America; ⁴CIFOR, Indonesia; ⁵CIFOR, Peru; ⁶Independent consultant, Australia; ⁷Paul-Valéry University, France; ⁸Independent consultant, Tanzania; ⁹University of Melbourne, Australia Community Land Rights Delimitation and Natural Resources Management in Mozambique: Significance and Implications for Sustainable and Inclusive Development André Aquino¹, João Fonseca² ¹World Bank, Mozambique; ²World Bank, Mozambique Gender In Collective Tenure Regimes: Women Rights And Forest Tenure Reforms Anne M. Larson¹, Iliana Monterroso¹, Esther Mwangi¹, Nining Liswanti¹, Tuti Herawati¹, Mani Banjade¹, Baruani Mshale¹, Julia Quaedvlieg² ¹CIFOR, Peru; ²Independant Securing the Commons in India: A Polycentric Approach Ruth Meinzen-Dick¹, Jagdeesh Rao², Rahul Chaturvedi², R Kaushalendra Rao², Sophie Theis¹ ¹IFPRI, United States of America; ²Foundation for Ecological Security, India
4:00pm - 5:30pm	04-08: Land Policies for Affordable Housing Session Chair: Eric Heikkila, University of Southern California, United States of America
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	Law and Inclusive Urban Development: Lessons from Chile's Enabling Markets Housing Policy Regime Diego Gil Mc Cawley Stanford Law School, United States of America Housing Affordability: The Land Use Regulation link to Informal Tenure in Developing Countries Cynthia Goytia, Ricardo Pasquini Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentine Republic Evaluating “Zero Land Policy”: Iran’s initiative to provide homes for those with lower incomes Tohid Atashbar Research Center of Iran's Parliament, Iran, Islamic Republic of Land Administration Effectiveness in State-Subsidised Housing in Du Noon, Cape Town, South Africa Michael Barry University of Calgary, Canada “From The Right To Housing To The Defense of Titling And Private Property: A Critique Of The Peruvian Approach to Housing Informality And A Contribution To A New Land And Housing Policy” Sofia Garcia Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies - MIT, United States of America

Date: Wednesday, 22/Mar/2017
8:30am - 10:00am	05-08: Strengthening Land Administration Management Session Chair: Charisse Griffith-Charles, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
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	Delivering Land Administration Services at Scale The Experience of Development and Implementation of a Nationwide Agricultural Land Management Information System Case Study of Directorate for Agricultural Land, Republic of Serbia Svetlana Bačanin, Katja Grbic Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Serbia From Cloth Bags to Land Record Service Centers – Experiences from a Project In Punjab, Pakistan Linus Pott World Bank, United States of America How a Global-to-Local Technology Partner Approach in Nigeria Contributed to Sustained results for State-level Land Administration Projects Gasant Jacobs¹, Chiemeka Ngwu² ¹Thomson Reuters, South Africa; ²Teqbridge Limited The Role Of Electronic Cadastre In Development Of The Buissnes Community - The Case Of Republic Of Macedonia Darko Crvenkovski Agency for real estate cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of
10:30am - 12:00pm	06-08: How to Ensure Public Trust in Land Records? Session Chair: Jacob Vos, Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The
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	Land and Property Rights Guaranteed and Protected Nicola Heathcote HM Land Registry, England and Wales, United Kingdom Overselling the Mirror and Curtain Principles of Land Titling Jacob Zevenbergen University of Twente, Netherlands, The Reliable Data For Inclusive Land Administration Systems Paulus Saers, Mathilde Molendijk, Co Meijer Kadaster, Netherlands, The Land Registry, Mortgage Markets and Consumer Protection Nicolás Nogueroles IPRA-CINDER (International Property Registries Association), Spain
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Uganda: How Strengthening Land Governance Supports Job Creation and Tax Revenues Session Chair: Klaus Tilmes, World Bank,
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	How Land Administration Increases Tax Revenue and Supports Job creation Moses Kibirige World Bank, Uganda Discussant Richard Oput Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda Concluding Remarks Betty Ongom Amongi Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda
2:15pm - 3:45pm	07-08: Approaches to Implementing Property Tax Reform Session Chair: Kauko Jussi Viitanen, Aalto University, Finland
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	The Critical Elements Of Sustainable Property Tax Implementation And Reform” David Laurence Magor Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation, United Kingdom Workable Solutions for Property Tax Reform Richard Almy¹, Margie Cusack² ¹Almy, Gloudemans, Jacobs & Denne, United States of America; ²International Association of Assessing Officers Success Factors for a System for Property Taxation and the Consequent Risks Benjamin Bervoets, Marco Kuijper, Ruud M. Kathmann Netherland Council for Real Estate Assessment, Netherlands, The Improving Land Valuation Models in Sparse Markets: A Comparison of Spatial Interpolation Techniques Used in Mass Appraisal Paul Bidanset¹, William McCluskey², Peadar Davis¹, Michael McCord¹ ¹Ulster University, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland; ²African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
4:00pm - 5:30pm	08-08: Using ICT for Improving Property Tax Collection Session Chair: Richard Grover, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
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	The remote sensing implication in the property mass valuation GIS in Serbia Stojanka Brankovic Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia The Role of ICT in delivering Revenue Collection in Developing Countries: The Tanzanian Experience William Mccluskey¹, Chyi-Yun Huang², Patrick Doherty³, Riel Franzsen⁴ ¹African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa; ²World Bank; ³Consultant; ⁴African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa Land Management For Improved Dispute Resolution And Property Tax Revenue For Local Governments: Evidence From Somalia Tefo Mooketsane UN-Habitat, Kenya Mass Valuation in a Developing Country: The Case of Chitungwiza Town in Zimbabwe Maxwell Mutema Independent Consultant, Zimbabwe

Date: Thursday, 23/Mar/2017
8:30am - 10:00am	09-08: Using Land Data as a Basis for Local Administration Session Chair: Vanessa Lawrence CB, Location International, United Kingdom
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	Thinking Local: Can Local Land Administration Systems Avoid the Pitfalls of National Land Systems? Linda Maria Lodin¹, Kent Johan Ronny Nilsson², Frank Pichel³ ¹Kartverket, Norway; ²Lantmäteriet, Sweden; ³Cadasta Integrating Low Cost/Open Source Gis And Remote Sensing In Urban Planning In Developing Countries – Case Of Blantyre City, Malawi Costly Chanza BLANTYRE CITY COUNCIL, Malawi Redressing the Municipal Affairs with Digital Spatial Data toward Responsible Land Governance Shamsuddin Ahmed YCPPL, York University, Canada Capturing Property Boundaries from Ortho-photos to Support Systematic Registration Augustine Mulolwa, Elias Mwambela, Emmanuel Tembo University of Zambia, Zambia
10:30am - 12:00pm	10-08: Using New Data & Platforms for Land Policy Research Session Chair: Innocent Matshe, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya
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	Government Policy and Natural Resource Sector FDI: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Liberia Bradley Parks¹, Jonas Bunte², Daniel Runfola¹, Harsh Desai³, Kanio Gbala⁴ ¹The College of William and Mary; ²UT-Dallas; ³London School of Economics and Political Science; ⁴TrustAfrica Monitoring of Agricultural Land Conversion with Copernicus Sentinel Sensors: Case Study of Gambella State (Ethiopia) Guido Lemoine, Felix Rembold European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre, Italy Satellite based monitoring of forest resources compliant with REDD+ and Zero Deforestation Thomas Haeusler, Fabian Enßle, Sharon Gomez GAF AG, Germany How Land Tenure Systems Affect Foreign Investment: Evidence from Liberia Alexandra Hartman¹, Darin Christensen³, Cyrus Samii² ¹UCL, United Kingdom; ²NYU, United States of America; ³UCLA, United States of America
1:00pm - 2:30pm	11-08: Adapting Property Tax System Session Chair: Lionel Galliez, International Union of Notaries (UINL), France
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	Pragmatism or Principles? Property Taxation Valuation in Finland Mika-Petteri Törhönen¹, Kauko Viitanen² ¹The World Bank, United States of America; ²Aalto University, Finland Modernising the Delivery of Statutory Valuation Services: An Irish perspective Terence Fahey¹, Aanchal Anand² ¹Valuation Office, Ireland; ²World Bank, United States of America Street addressing - a Global Trend Soumya Dharmavaram, Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic World Bank, United States of America Predicting Taxpayer Behaviour and Compliance: An Analysis of Jamaica’s Property Tax System Tina Beale, Peter Wyatt University of Reading, United Kingdom
2:45pm - 4:15pm	12-08: Urban Services and Property Tax Collection Session Chair: Cynthia Goytia, Harvard University and Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentine Republic
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	The Valuation of Unregistered Land: Case Studies from Ghana, Indonesia, and Peru Franklin Obeng-Odoom², Michael McDermott¹ ¹University of Technology, Sydney; ²Global Property Advisory, Australia Issues Facing Standardisation of Property Valuation Practices: A case study of Suva, Fiji Sandeep Narayan¹, Sharlene Biswas², Louzanne Sahib³ ¹Rolle Associates, Fiji Islands; ²University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; ³Home Finance Company, Suva, Fiji Islands Property Tax in Kigali: Using Satellite Imagery to Assess Collection Potential Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger World Bank, United States of America

Date: Friday, 24/Mar/2017
9:00am - 10:30am	13-10: Low Cost Valuation Methodologies For more information or signing up, please contact clark@iaao.org
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	Low Cost Valuation Methodologies with Excel and ArcGIS Online Brent Jones¹, Larry Clark² ¹Esri, United States of America; ²International Association of Assessment Officials (IAAO)
11:00am - 12:30pm	14-10: Earth Observation For Sustainable Development For more information or signing up, please contact r.zurita-milla@utwente.nl
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	Earth Observation for Sustainable development: agriculture and rural development David Annandale¹, Evelyn Aparicio², Anna Burzykowska³, Remco Dost⁴, Eva Haas⁵, Silvia Huber⁶, Annemarie Klaasse⁴, Parya Pasha Zadeh⁷, Almudena Rodriguez⁸, Bastiaan Roos², Niels Wielaard⁹, Raul Zurita-Milla⁷ ¹Lahmeyer International, Germany; ²Nelen en Schuurmans, the Netherlands; ³European Space Agency ESA, Italy; ⁴eLEAF BV, the Netherlands; ⁵GeoVille, Austria; ⁶DHI-GRAS, Denmark; ⁷Faculty of Geo Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, the Netherlands; ⁸SpaceTec, Belgium; ⁹Satelligence, the Netherlands
1:30pm - 3:00pm	15-10: ICT Tools to Strengthen the Disaster Resilience For more information or signing up, please contact slayer@geothings.tw
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	ICT Tool For Capacity Building To Strengthen The Disaster Resilience Kuo-Yu Chuang, Meng-Min Chen GeoThings Inc.

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