Conference Agenda

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

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:

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

1: International Fund for Agricultural Development; 2: Western Sudan Resource Management Program

Geospatial Impact Evaluation and Valuation of Land Degradation Projects

Juha Ilari Uitto¹, Geeta Batra¹, Anupam Anand¹, Dan Runfola², Ariel BenYishay², Jyoteshwar Nagol³

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)

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

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

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

André Aquino¹, João Fonseca²

1: World Bank, Mozambique; 2: World 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

1: CIFOR, Peru; 2: Independant

Securing the Commons in India: A Polycentric Approach

Ruth Meinzen-Dick¹, Jagdeesh Rao², Rahul Chaturvedi², R Kaushalendra Rao², Sophie Theis¹

1: IFPRI, United States of America; 2: Foundation for Ecological Security, India

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

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

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

Darko Crvenkovski

Agency for real estate cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

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

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

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

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

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

1: Ulster University, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland; 2: African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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

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

Tefo Mooketsane

UN-Habitat, Kenya

Mass Valuation in a Developing Country: The Case of Chitungwiza Town in Zimbabwe

Maxwell Mutema

Independent Consultant, Zimbabwe

Thinking Local: Can Local Land Administration Systems Avoid the Pitfalls of National Land Systems?

Linda Maria Lodin¹, Kent Johan Ronny Nilsson², Frank Pichel³

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

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

Government Policy and Natural Resource Sector FDI: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Liberia

Bradley Parks¹, Jonas Bunte², Daniel Runfola¹, Harsh Desai³, Kanio Gbala⁴

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)

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

1: UCL, United Kingdom; 2: NYU, United States of America; 3: UCLA, United States of America

Pragmatism or Principles? Property Taxation Valuation in Finland

Mika-Petteri Törhönen¹, Kauko Viitanen²

1: The World Bank, United States of America; 2: Aalto University, Finland

Modernising the Delivery of Statutory Valuation Services: An Irish perspective

Terence Fahey¹, Aanchal Anand²

1: Valuation Office, Ireland; 2: World 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

The Valuation of Unregistered Land: Case Studies from Ghana, Indonesia, and Peru

Franklin Obeng-Odoom², Michael McDermott¹

1: University of Technology, Sydney; 2: Global Property Advisory, Australia

Issues Facing Standardisation of Property Valuation Practices: A case study of Suva, Fiji

Sandeep Narayan¹, Sharlene Biswas², Louzanne Sahib³

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

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger

World Bank, United States of America

Low Cost Valuation Methodologies with Excel and ArcGIS Online

Brent Jones¹, Larry Clark²

1: Esri, United States of America; 2: International Association of Assessment Officials (IAAO)

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

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

ICT Tool For Capacity Building To Strengthen The Disaster Resilience

Kuo-Yu Chuang, Meng-Min Chen

GeoThings Inc.