Conference Agenda

The Ghana Enterprise Land Information System (GELIS) as a Component of National Geospatial Policy

Graham C Deane¹, Robert M Owen¹, Benjamin Quaye²

¹Airbus Defence and Space, United Kingdom; ²Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources - Land Administration Project

The Cabo Verde Land Management Information and Transaction System (LMITS). Integrating Spatial and Alphanumeric Information on Land and Property, to Improve Access and Reliability and to Strengthen Transparency

Carlos Varela, Sonia Schofield

Millennium Challenge Account - Cabo Verde II, Cape Verde

A Viable Approach to Establish Conclusive Land Title in India

Satyaprakash Timmiah Lakshmanappa¹, Dr.Sultan Singh Sr. Scientist-SG²

¹Govt of Haryana, India, India; ²Haryana Space Applications Centre (HARSAC)

Delivering Land Administration Services At Scale

Faiz Faiz-ul-Hassan, Iqbal Muhammad Zafar

Punjab Land Records Authority, Government of Punjab, Pakistan

How to Implement a Broad Reform Agenda - The role of the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre in development of the property market in Republic of Macedonia

Tatjana Cenova-Mitrevska

Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

Better Land Management in Botswana Through an Integrated Electronic Land Information System

Niko Zorkin¹, Thato Raphaka², Kent Nilsson³, Moagi Basaakane⁴

¹ENKON Information System, Canada; ²Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services, Botswana; ³Lantmäteriet; ⁴Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services, Botswana

Scaling Up a Pilot Land Management Initiative in Uganda to a National Land Information System (NLIS)

Richard Oput¹, Aurélie Milledrogues², Patrick Stimpson², Sergiy Lizenko³, Carol Roffer³, Christopher Burke²

¹Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development (MLHUD), Uganda; ²Institut Géographique National-France International (IGN-FI); ³Innola Solutions, Inc.

Land: The Hidden Assets in African Cities

Gora Mboup

Global Observatory linking Research to Action (GORA), United States of America

Community-Led, Citywide Settlement Profiling And Upgrading As Evidence Based Approach To Land Governance: The Case Of Muntinlupa City, Philippines

Qhobela Cyprian Selebalo⁵, Louie Robert Posadas³, Villa Mae Libutaque⁴, Ruby Papeleras¹, Lunalyn Cagan³, Danilo Antonio⁵, John Gitau⁵, Hellen Nyamweru Ndung'u⁵, Deanne Ayson²

¹Homeless People’s Federation Philippines, Inc.; ²Philippine Action for Community-led Shelter Initiatives, Inc.; ³Technical Assistance Movement for People and Environment, Inc.; ⁴LinkBuild, Inc.; ⁵UN-Habitat/GLTN

Making the Community Land Bill Effective: The Case of Mashimoni Settlement in Nairobi County and Kwa Bulo Settlement in Mombasa County of Kenya

Danson Maina¹, Rebecca Ochong², Danilo Antonio¹, Steve Ouma²

¹Pamoja Trust, Kenya; ²UN-Habitat/GLTN

The Role Of Gender In Securing Land Rights For Equity, Sustainability, And Resilience

Nangobi Joyce RoseMary¹, Pamela Ransom²

¹Slum Women's Initiative for Development (SWID), Uganda; ²Metropolitan College New York City

Securing Land Rights within the Continuum of Land Rights Approach: Evidence from the Poor Urban Communities in Kenya and Uganda

Danilo Antonio¹, Julius Okello², Nelson Marongwe¹, Hellen Nyamweru¹

¹UN-Habitat; ²African Institute for Strategic Research Governance and Development

Between informal and illegal: Noncompliance with Planning and Building Laws

Rachelle Alterman¹, Ines Calor²

¹Neaman Institute, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; ²Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Honduras Experience with Land Regularization in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas

Alain Adalberto Paz Quesada¹, Roman Alvarez¹, Enrique Pantoja²

¹Programa de Administración de Tierras de Honduras (PATH II), Honduras; ²The World Bank

(Formalizing) Informal Housing: Addressing the Elephant in the Room

Victor Endo¹, Luis Triveno², Abel Alarco³

¹Land Alliance; ²World Bank; ³NG Quality

Invasion of vacant lands in the realm of urban development: a case study of the Kenya coast

Prof. Muhammad Swazuri, Mr. Geoffrey Nyamasege, Mr. Tom Chavangi, Ms Esterina Dokhe

National Land Commission, Kenya

Participative Cartography in Benin

Felix Braeckman¹, Hervé Dossoumou², Egy Sossou², Anouk Lodder¹

¹VNG International The Netherlands; ²VNG International Benin

Registration and Release of Customary-land for Private Enterprise: Lessons from Papua New Guinea

Satish Chand

University of New South Wales, Australia

Supporting Greater Tenure Security For Community And Customary Land Rights – Lessons Learned From The Field And How Community Led Participatory Mapping Empowers Small Holder Farmers In Myanmar.

Nicholas Thomas, Thiengi May Soe, Myat Thu Aung

Tetra Tech, United States of America

Norwegian Support To The Land Sector In Kyrgyzstan

Elena Busch¹, Helge Onsrud¹, Bakytbek Djusupbekov²

¹Statens kartverk - Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway; ²Department of Cadastre and Registration, Kyrgyzstan

The intricacies of large scale agricultural investment in Gambella Region, Ethiopia

Azeb Degife

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Understanding the Implication of Macroeconomic Growth on Smallholder Farmer, Landless, Landpoor and Women's livelihood and Land Rights in Lower Mekong Basin Region

Kaneka Keo¹, Daniel Lindgren²

¹Oxfam America, Cambodia; ²Rapid Asia Co.,Ltd

Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Kenya: Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Kenya: The Yala Swamp Case Study of Kenya’s Land Governance System and Actual Practices

Odenda Lumumba

KENYA LAND ALLIANCE, Kenya

Smallholders and large –scale land acquisition in west Africa: the case of the management committees of customary land in Benin

Avohoueme Midjeou Beranger

LADYD, University of Abomey-Calavi, Republic of Benin

Natural and Social Capital Valuation: Piloting a Bottom-Up Approach to Valuing the Commons and Paving the Way for Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal

Daphne Yin¹, Yijia Chen¹, Jeffrey Hatcher¹, Santosh Bhandari², Pete Watt², Pratiti Priyadarshini³, Rahul Chaturvedi³, Jagdeesh Rao³, Peadar Davis⁴, Paul Bidanset⁴

¹Indufor North America, United States of America; ²Indufor Asia Pacific, New Zealand; ³Foundation for Ecological Security, India; ⁴Ulster University, United Kingdom

Detemining Minimum Compensation for Lost Farmland: A Theory- Based Impact Evalution of a Bio-Ethanol Multinational Company in Sierra Leone

Joseph Saffa, Mohamed Sorie Conteh, Lansana Hassan Sowa

Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF), Sierra Leone

Guarding Against Land-expropriation-related Mass Incidents (LERMIs): Practical Evidence From China's Local Governments

Siliang Wang¹, Shukui Tan¹, Lu Zhang¹, Conghui Cheng²

¹Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, People's Republic of; ²Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of

Do rehabilitation institutions from land acquisition fit with farmers’ preferences? Results from a contingent ranking experiment in India

Vikram Patil¹, Ranjan Ghosh², Vinish Kathuria³

¹Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, India; ²Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden; ³SJM School of Management of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

Compulsory Purchase Powers - Essential For Emerging Economies

Tony Mulhall, James Kavanagh

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, United Kingdom

Eminent Domain in Finland

Markku Markkula

National Land Survey of Finland, Finland

Displacement politics and post-aid urban development: Resettlements, donors and infrastructure development in Beira city, Mozambique

Murtah Read^1,2, Annelies Zoomers^1,2, Kei Otsuki^1,2, Mayke Kaag^2,3

¹Utrecht University; ²LANDac; ³African Studies Center Leiden

Land For Infrastructure Development: Compulsory Acquisition And Compensation Of Undocumented /Unregistered Land In Kenya

Agatha Wanyonyi, Monica Obongo, Peter Mburu, Jane Ndiba

Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, Kenya

The Impact of Initial Security of Tenure on Smallholder Farmers’ Household Income and Food Security: A Case Study of the Chiradzulu District in Malawi

Kefasi Kamoyo¹, Solomon Mkumbwa², Harold Liversage³, Rex Baluwa¹

¹Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Malawi; ²Land and Global Land Tool Network- UN Habitat, Kenya; ³International Fund for Agricultural Development, Italy

Putting Land Rights into Value

Andreas Lange

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany

Land And Poverty Alleviation

Amit Bhola

Shri Balaji Agrotech Pvt Ltd, India

Property Based Information Systems of Turkey

Mehmet Fatih Diri

General Directorate of Land Registy and Cadastre, Turkey

REGIA: creating new context for better governance

Aidas Petrosius, Kestutis Sabaliauskas, Arvydas Bagdonavičius

State Enterprise Centre of Registers, Lithuania

Formalizing Real Estate Markets Within Europe, Structural Reforms And Challenges

Chrysi Potsiou

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SURVEYORS FIG

International Property Market Scorecard – A Tool for Data Collection

Sylvia Luchini¹, William Endsley², Anna Kompanek³

¹The International Real Property Foundation, United States of America; ²World Citizen Consulting; ³Center for International Private Enterprise

Evaluating the Equity and Efficiency Impacts of Land Use Regulations: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Approach

Eric Heikkila¹, Robin Rajack²

¹University of Southern California, United States of America; ²Inter-American Development Bank

Effects of Land Misallocation on Capital Allocations in India

Gilles Duranton², Ejaz Ghani¹, Arti Grover¹, William Kerr³

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; ³Harvard Business School

Factor Missallocation, Firm Entry and Exit, and Productivity in Ukraine's Agricultural Sector

Klaus Deininger¹, Denys Nizalov², Mykola Ryzhenkov³, Sudhir Singh¹

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²University of Kent/ KEI at KSE, United Kingdom; ³Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine

Apartment owners associations

Leon Verstappen, Noortje Vegter, Fokke Jan Vonck

University of Groningen, Netherlands, The

Land Ownership in Nigeria: Towards a Legal Framework for Condominium

Awwal Magashi

Adam Smith International, Nigeria

The World Is Not a Pizza - How Single-Photon LiDAR Shows the World in 3D – Affordably and Reliably

Ronald Roth

Leica Geosystems, United States of America

Land And Forest Tenure Reform Implementation And Tenure Security: An Orientation for Policy Makers And Practitioners

Anne Larson, Esther Mwangi, Mani Banjade

Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia

Towards Sustainable Pastoralism Through Improving Governance of Pastoral Lands: Implementation of the FAO VGGT Governance of Techncial Guide No. 6

Vivian Onyango¹, Gregorio VelascoGil¹, Fiona Flintan², Jonathan Davies³

¹Pastoralist Knowledge Hub (PKH), FAO,; ²International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); ³World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP)/International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Forest Governance Market and Climate Programme (FGMC)

Francesca Marzatico⁰², Hugh Speechly⁰¹, Sandra Thiam⁰³, Art Blundell⁰⁴

¹Palladium; ²Palladium; ³European Forest Institute; ⁴Forest Trends