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Session Overview | |
Location: MC C2-131 |
Date: Tuesday, 21/Mar/2017 | |
8:30am - 10:00am |
01-08: Challenges to be Addressed in Protecting Communal Rights Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Mamadou Baro, University of Arizona, United States of America Land Use Rights, Land Governance Institutions, and Tenure Security Indicators in a Pastoral Community: Evidence from a Baseline Study in the Afar Region, Ethiopia 1: The Cloudburst Group, United States of America; 2: USAID, United States of America Towards Securing Community Land Tenure in Kenya A Holistic Approach To Community-Based Natural Resource Governance: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Kenya Strengthening Security of Tenure for Indigenous Bedouins in the West Bank Norwegian Refugee Council, Palestine Resilient Pastoral Institution for a Changing Environment: the case of the Stock Routes Co-Management Approach in Western Sudan 1: International Fund for Agricultural Development; 2: Western Sudan Resource Management Program |
10:30am - 12:00pm |
02-08: Frontier of Sustainable Land Management Research Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Paola Agostini, The World Bank, United States of America Geospatial Impact Evaluation and Valuation of Land Degradation Projects 1: Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office, Washington DC; 2: College of William and Mary, USA; 3: University 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) World Bank, Global Environment Facility, United States of America SLM Intervention Impact Assessment Using Remotely Sensed Data The World Bank, United States of America Building Local Capacity to Monitor Land Use Change and Intervention Impacts Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Senegal Discussant The World Bank, United States of America Discussant UC San Diego, United States of America |
2:15pm - 3:45pm |
03-08: Addressing Land Tenure Aspects of REDD+ Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Esther Mwangi, Center for International Forestry Research, Kenya Creating an appropriate tenure foundation for REDD+: The record to date and prospects for the future 1: Independent consultant, United States of America; 2: Ministry of the Environment, Switzerland; 3: North Carolina State University, United States of America; 4: CIFOR, Indonesia; 5: CIFOR, Peru; 6: Independent consultant, Australia; 7: Paul-Valéry University, France; 8: Independent consultant, Tanzania; 9: University of Melbourne, Australia Community Land Rights Delimitation and Natural Resources Management in Mozambique: Significance and Implications for Sustainable and Inclusive Development 1: World Bank, Mozambique; 2: World Bank, Mozambique Gender In Collective Tenure Regimes: Women Rights And Forest Tenure Reforms 1: CIFOR, Peru; 2: Independant Securing the Commons in India: A Polycentric Approach 1: IFPRI, United States of America; 2: Foundation for Ecological Security, India |
4:00pm - 5:30pm |
04-08: Land Policies for Affordable Housing Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Eric Heikkila, University of Southern California, United States of America Law and Inclusive Urban Development: Lessons from Chile's Enabling Markets Housing Policy Regime Stanford Law School, United States of America Housing Affordability: The Land Use Regulation link to Informal Tenure in Developing Countries Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentine Republic Evaluating “Zero Land Policy”: Iran’s initiative to provide homes for those with lower incomes Research Center of Iran's Parliament, Iran, Islamic Republic of Land Administration Effectiveness in State-Subsidised Housing in Du Noon, Cape Town, South Africa 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” 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 Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Charisse Griffith-Charles, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago 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 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Serbia From Cloth Bags to Land Record Service Centers – Experiences from a Project In Punjab, Pakistan 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 1: Thomson Reuters, South Africa; 2: Teqbridge Limited The Role Of Electronic Cadastre In Development Of The Buissnes Community - The Case Of Republic Of Macedonia Agency for real estate cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of |
10:30am - 12:00pm |
06-08: How to Ensure Public Trust in Land Records? Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Jacob Vos, Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The Land and Property Rights Guaranteed and Protected HM Land Registry, England and Wales, United Kingdom Overselling the Mirror and Curtain Principles of Land Titling University of Twente, Netherlands, The Reliable Data For Inclusive Land Administration Systems Kadaster, Netherlands, The Land Registry, Mortgage Markets and Consumer Protection IPRA-CINDER (International Property Registries Association), Spain |
12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Uganda: How Strengthening Land Governance Supports Job Creation and Tax Revenues Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Klaus Tilmes, World Bank, How Land Administration Increases Tax Revenue and Supports Job creation World Bank, Uganda Discussant Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda Concluding Remarks Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda |
2:15pm - 3:45pm |
07-08: Approaches to Implementing Property Tax Reform Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Kauko Jussi Viitanen, Aalto University, Finland The Critical Elements Of Sustainable Property Tax Implementation And Reform” Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation, United Kingdom Workable Solutions for Property Tax Reform 1: Almy, Gloudemans, Jacobs & Denne, United States of America; 2: International Association of Assessing Officers Success Factors for a System for Property Taxation and the Consequent Risks 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 1: Ulster University, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland; 2: African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa |
4:00pm - 5:30pm |
08-08: Using ICT for Improving Property Tax Collection Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Richard Grover, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom The remote sensing implication in the property mass valuation GIS in Serbia Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia The Role of ICT in delivering Revenue Collection in Developing Countries: The Tanzanian Experience 1: African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa; 2: World Bank; 3: Consultant; 4: African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa Land Management For Improved Dispute Resolution And Property Tax Revenue For Local Governments: Evidence From Somalia UN-Habitat, Kenya Mass Valuation in a Developing Country: The Case of Chitungwiza Town in Zimbabwe Independent Consultant, Zimbabwe |
Date: Thursday, 23/Mar/2017 | |
8:30am - 10:00am |
09-08: Using Land Data as a Basis for Local Administration Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Vanessa Lawrence CB, Location International, United Kingdom Thinking Local: Can Local Land Administration Systems Avoid the Pitfalls of National Land Systems? 1: Kartverket, Norway; 2: Lantmäteriet, Sweden; 3: Cadasta Integrating Low Cost/Open Source Gis And Remote Sensing In Urban Planning In Developing Countries – Case Of Blantyre City, Malawi BLANTYRE CITY COUNCIL, Malawi Redressing the Municipal Affairs with Digital Spatial Data toward Responsible Land Governance YCPPL, York University, Canada Capturing Property Boundaries from Ortho-photos to Support Systematic Registration University of Zambia, Zambia |
10:30am - 12:00pm |
10-08: Using New Data & Platforms for Land Policy Research Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Innocent Matshe, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya Government Policy and Natural Resource Sector FDI: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Liberia 1: The College of William and Mary; 2: UT-Dallas; 3: London School of Economics and Political Science; 4: TrustAfrica Monitoring of Agricultural Land Conversion with Copernicus Sentinel Sensors: Case Study of Gambella State (Ethiopia) European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre, Italy Satellite based monitoring of forest resources compliant with REDD+ and Zero Deforestation GAF AG, Germany How Land Tenure Systems Affect Foreign Investment: Evidence from Liberia 1: UCL, United Kingdom; 2: NYU, United States of America; 3: UCLA, United States of America |
1:00pm - 2:30pm |
11-08: Adapting Property Tax System Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Lionel Galliez, International Union of Notaries (UINL), France Pragmatism or Principles? Property Taxation Valuation in Finland 1: The World Bank, United States of America; 2: Aalto University, Finland Modernising the Delivery of Statutory Valuation Services: An Irish perspective 1: Valuation Office, Ireland; 2: World Bank, United States of America Street addressing - a Global Trend World Bank, United States of America Predicting Taxpayer Behaviour and Compliance: An Analysis of Jamaica’s Property Tax System University of Reading, United Kingdom |
2:45pm - 4:15pm |
12-08: Urban Services and Property Tax Collection Location: MC C2-131 Chair: Cynthia Goytia, Harvard University and Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentine Republic The Valuation of Unregistered Land: Case Studies from Ghana, Indonesia, and Peru 1: University of Technology, Sydney; 2: Global Property Advisory, Australia Issues Facing Standardisation of Property Valuation Practices: A case study of Suva, Fiji 1: Rolle Associates, Fiji Islands; 2: University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; 3: Home Finance Company, Suva, Fiji Islands Property Tax in Kigali: Using Satellite Imagery to Assess Collection Potential World Bank, United States of America |
Date: Friday, 24/Mar/2017 | |
9:00am - 10:30am |
13-10: Low Cost Valuation Methodologies Location: MC C2-131 For more information or signing up, please contact clark@iaao.org Low Cost Valuation Methodologies with Excel and ArcGIS Online 1: Esri, United States of America; 2: International Association of Assessment Officials (IAAO) |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
14-10: Earth Observation For Sustainable Development Location: MC C2-131 For more information or signing up, please contact r.zurita-milla@utwente.nl Earth Observation for Sustainable development: agriculture and rural development 1: Lahmeyer International, Germany; 2: Nelen en Schuurmans, the Netherlands; 3: European Space Agency ESA, Italy; 4: eLEAF BV, the Netherlands; 5: GeoVille, Austria; 6: DHI-GRAS, Denmark; 7: Faculty of Geo Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, the Netherlands; 8: SpaceTec, Belgium; 9: Satelligence, the Netherlands |
1:30pm - 3:00pm |
15-10: ICT Tools to Strengthen the Disaster Resilience Location: MC C2-131 For more information or signing up, please contact slayer@geothings.tw ICT Tool For Capacity Building To Strengthen The Disaster Resilience GeoThings Inc. |
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