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Location: J 1-050

Date: Tuesday, 21/Mar/2017
8:30am - 10:00am	01-05: Land Policies in Francophone West Africa Location: J 1-050 Chair: Rivo Andrianirina - Ratsialonana, Land Observatory Madagascar, Madagascar Translation French, What Prospects for a New Land Policy in DRC? Andre Teyssier¹, Floribert Nyamwoga² 1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Ministry of Land Affairs, DRC Large Scale Land Leases : A Rural Communities' Business Ndeye Coura Diop, Alain Diouf, Pape Samba Ndiaye, Aliou Bassoum, André Teyssier PDIDAS, Senegal The Apology Of The Right To Exploit Rural Land By The “Land And Federal Code” In Benin Jean Aholou AFC, Benin Using LGAF to Develop Land Policy in Mali Moussa Djiré Bamako University of Legal and Political Sciences, Mali
10:30am - 12:00pm	02-05: Do We Need New Institutions to Implement African Land Policies? Location: J 1-050 Chair: Andre Teyssier, World Bank, United States of America Translation French, Institutional reform to implement the new land policy in Rwanda Nishimwe Marie Grace Rwanda Natural Resources Authority, Rwanda Establishment of the Agence Nationale du Domaine et du Foncier in Benin Alain Atchade Agence Nationale du Domaine et du Foncier (ANDF), Benin Policy and Institutional Reform in Mali Checkine Mamadou Dieffaga secretariat permanent de la reforme domaniale et fonciere au Mali, Mali Policy and Institutional Reform in Mauritania Mamadou Baro University of Arizona, United States of America Institutional developments in Madagascar Land Sector Rivo Andrianirina - Ratsialonana Land Observatory Madagascar, Madagascar
2:15pm - 3:45pm	03-05: Building Institutions for Land Administration Services Location: J 1-050 Chair: Stig Enemark, Aalborg University, Denmark Institutional Reform as a Key Driver in the Delivery of Modern Land Administration Peter Ritchie GIS Transport, Nigeria The National Spatial Data Infrastructure of Zambia Shlomo Sivan Sivan Design D.S. Ltd, Israel Establishing A Delivery Unit For Land Administration- How To Deliver Land Administration Services In Developing Countries, Sustainably And To Scale. Owen Edwards Private Individual, United States of America Conceptual Modelling Of Information System Process To Design Tech Solutions To Fight Land Corruption Through Transparency International's Land and Corruption In Africa Programme Jean Brice Tetka, George Anadiotis, Andrea Staeritz Transparency International-Secretariat, Germany
4:00pm - 5:30pm	04-05: Mobile Technologies to Scale Up Land Data Collection Location: J 1-050 Chair: Collins Odote, University of Naiorbi, Kenya Embracing the Rubber-Boot Approach to Securing Customary Land Rights with focus on Low-Cost Land-Use Inventory Tobias Bendzko¹, Prince Donkor Ameyaw¹, Uchendu Eugene Chigbu¹, Walter Timo de Vries¹, Derek Osei Tutu² 1: Chair of Land Management, Technical University Munich; 2: Public and Vested Land Management Division, Lands Commission. Accra-Ghana From Squatter Farmers To Tenant Farmers: Application Of Low Cost Geo-Spatial Technologies in Kalangala Richard Kabuleta¹, Connie Masaba¹, Danilo Antonio², Samuel Mabikke², Solomon Mkumbwa², Harold Liversage³ 1: Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Uganda; 2: UN-Habitat/GLTN; 3: IFAD Scalability of Forest Land Mapping Interventions Undertaken Using GIS Technology in Context of Up-Scaling Implementation of Forest Rights Act in India – Emerging Evidence from the Ground Ruchika Singh World Resources Institute India

Date: Wednesday, 22/Mar/2017
8:30am - 10:00am	05-05: Can Legal Provisions Help Increase Gender Equality? Location: J 1-050 Chair: Benedicte Leroy De La Briere, World Bank, United States of America The Role of Legal Professions in Addressing Gender Equality in Land Ownership, Cases from the Office a Public Notary in Albania Adela Llatja¹, Elona Saliaj² 1: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Albania; 2: Public Notary Gender Equality and Women's Rights: The Essential Role of the Notaire in Implementing and Diffusing the De Jure Law Edith Vezina^1,2 1: International Union of Notaries; 2: Sherbrooke University Land and Gender in the Western Balkans: Understanding Customs and People’s Lives to Achieve the SDGs Margret Vidar¹, Adela Llatja², Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Christopher Will² 1: FAO, Italy; 2: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany Women’s Rights To Land And Property In Kenya Pauline Musangi Hakijamii, Kenya
10:30am - 12:00pm	06-05: Ensuring Land Policy's Contribution to Gender Equality Location: J 1-050 Chair: Vinodh Jaichand, Independent, South Africa The Policy Response to Women’s Entitlement to Land: Implementation Gradualism in the Limits of Social Norms Govind Kelkar, Shipra Deo Landesa, India, India Gender Equality - Goal or Tool? Kent Johan Ronny Nilsson¹, Maria Lodin² 1: Lantmäteriet, Sweden (The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority); 2: Kartverket, Norway (The Norwegian Mapping Authority) Political Economy of Land Governance and Women’s Empowerment – The Case of Meghalaya Sanjukta Roy The World Bank, India Claiming And Realizing Right To Land: Can Development Organizations Address The Gender Disparities In Bangladesh? Ferdous Jahan¹, Sharif Wahab² 1: University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; 2: Ohio University, USA
2:15pm - 3:45pm	07-05: Avenues to Enhance Women's Land Ownership Location: J 1-050 Chair: Julian Quan, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom Securing the Land Rights of Poor and Women through Provision of Legal Services to Address Their Land Problems Somdatta Mandal, Naveen Kumar Landesa/ Rural Development Institute, India Securing land rights for widows living with and affected by HIV using customary justice structures Gina Alvarado Merino¹, Allan Maleche² 1: International Center for Research on Women, United States of America; 2: Kenya Ethical and Legal Issues Network on HIV and AIDS Namibia: Good Practices and Lessons Learned for Gender and Communal Land Hirut Girma Landesa, United States of America Women’s Knowledge and Perception towards their Land and Property Rights Across Bombali, Portloko And Tonkolili Districts In Northern Region, Sierra Leone. Joseph Saffa, Mohamed Sorie Conteh, Lansana Hassan Sowa Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF), Sierra Leone
4:00pm - 5:30pm	08-05: How to Ensure Gender Equality in Access to Communal Lands? Location: J 1-050 Chair: Margaret Buck Holland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States of America A Comparative Analysis of National Laws Recognizing Women’s Rights To Community Forests in the Developing World Stephanie Keene, Chloe Ginsburg Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America Changing Form and Content of Women’s Land Rights under Customary Tenure: Is Registration or Titling an Opportunity? Herbert Kamusiime¹, Eddie Nsamba-Gayiiya², Christine Kajumba¹ 1: Associates Research Uganda; 2: Consultant Surveyors and Planners, Uganda Gender and Collectively Held Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Six Global Case Studies Renee Giovarelli^1,2, Amanda Richardson^1,2, Elisa Scalise^1,2 1: Resource Equity, United States of America; 2: Landesa, United States of America Collective Land Tenure in Colombia: Current State and Prospective Challenges Marco Alberto Velásquez Ruiz Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

Date: Thursday, 23/Mar/2017
8:30am - 10:00am	09-05: Dealing with the Far-Reaching Impacts of Land Access Location: J 1-050 Chair: Alda Salomao, CENTRO TERRA VIVA, Mozambique Land, Inequality and Power in Latin America Stephanie Burgos¹, Arantxa Guereña² 1: Oxfam America, United States of America; 2: Independent Consultant Land Markets in FARC Territory: Access to Land in Post-conflict Colombia Camilo Pardo¹, Ivonne Moreno² 1: George Mason University, United States of America; 2: World Bank The Determinants of Land-Grabbing in the Colombian Civil War: A Preliminary Analysis Camilo Pardo George Mason University, United States of America Land Inequality in Brazil Gustavo Ferroni Oxfam, Brazil
10:30am - 12:00pm	10-05: Policies for Low Density Cities Location: J 1-050 Chair: Anna Wellenstein, World Bank, United States of America Urban Land Management for Sustainable Development in Riyadh, KSA Olga Kaganova, Annie Bidgood, Ellen Hamilton, Fuad Malkawi World Bank, United States of America Transforming Riyadh from Challenges to Urban Policies Actions: A Planning Perspective Ibrahim Fahad I Aleid, Abdulrahman Abdullah A Alsultan Arriyadh Development Authority, Saudi Arabia A Land Administration Perspective Mohammed Al Rajhi Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia A Municipality Perspective Osama Al-Bar City of Makkah, Saudi Arabia
1:00pm - 2:30pm	11-05: Reconciliation over Land Rights in Post-Conflict Settings Location: J 1-050 Chair: Susan Mbaya, Sue Mbaya and Associates, South Africa The Politics of Institutional Proliferation and the Management of Repatriation-induced Land Disputes in Post-war Burundi Rosine Tchatchoua-Djomo African Studies Centre Leiden, The Netherlands Conflict Dynamics of Dual Land Administration in Karen State/Kawthoolei of Myanmar SiuSue Mark International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, The Hague, Netherlands Land and Conflict in Myanmar Francesca Marzatico Palladium , Myanmar
2:45pm - 4:15pm	12-05: Post-Conflict Policies for Land Governance Location: J 1-050 Chair: Victoria Stanley, World Bank, United States of America Inclusive Urbanization through Evidence Based Advocacy & Innovative Approaches to Tenure Security for the Displaced in Afghanistan’s Cities Marcus Tudehope, Depika Sherchan, Azima Roya UN Habitat Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of Overcoming Obstacles To Land Registration Reform In Bosnia-Herzegovina Through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation Sean Parramore Queen Mary University of London, Belgium Protecting Future Rights for Future Citizens: Children’s Property Rights in Complex Emergencies Sandra Joireman University of Richmond, United States of America

Date: Friday, 24/Mar/2017
9:00am - 10:30am	13-13: Experience from Russian Land Administration Reform Location: J 1-050 Translation Russian, Masterclass by Rosreestr- Russian registry Experience sharing Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr) Konstantin Koltoniuk Rosreestr, Russian Federation
11:00am - 12:30pm	14-13: Land policy reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo Location: J 1-050 Progress and outlook of land reform and land use policy in RDC -I Floribert Bayengeha Nyamwoga D.R. CONGO OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT, Congo, Democratic Republic of the
1:30pm - 3:00pm	15-12: Land policy reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo Location: J 1-050 Progress and outlook of land reform and land use policy in RDC –I Floribert Bayengeha Nyamwoga D.R. CONGO OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT, Congo, Democratic Republic of the

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