Conference Agenda

Using high resolution imagery to reliably generate building footprints at scale: Current technology and potential applications

Jeremy Hale

DigitalGlobe, United States of America

Linking building footprints with cadastral and tax data in Lusaka: Implications for Zambia and beyond

Kelvin Chibangula², Daniel Ayalew Ali¹, Trevor Kaunda², Klaus Deininger¹

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, Zambia

Urban Thematic Exploitation Platform - Supporting Sustainable Urban Development with Big Data from Space

Christoph Aubrecht

European Space Agency (ESA) & The World Bank, United States of America

New Opportunities for Using the Cloud to Improve Data Access and Analysis

Michael Lokshin

World Bank, United States of America

Integrating Mapping into Household Surveys

Michael Lokshin

World Bank, United States of America

Fiscal and Productivity Losses from Inaccurate Land Rights in Malawi

Klaus Deininger, Fang Xia, Daniel Ali

World Bank, United States of America

Monitoring Performance and Impact of Sustainable Land Management projects in Ethiopia

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger, Daniel Monchuk

World Bank, United States of America

Assessing the size of informal land cultivation and shadow market for agricultural commodities in Ukraine

Denys Nizalov¹, Denis Bashlyk²

¹University of Kent/ KEI at KSE, United Kingdom; ²Stategeocadastre, Ukraine

Using spatial data to generate small area estimates of poverty and population: Initial lessons

David Locke Newhouse

The World Bank, United States of America

Generating a Global Map of Sub-national Poverty Estimates

Joao Pedro Wagner De Azevedo

The World Bank, United States of America

Block Chains and Smart Contracts

Josephus van Erp

Maastricht University, Netherlands, The

Block chains in the Netherlands

Jacob Vos

Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The

Development of cadastral system in Ukraine: blockchain initiatives

Denis Bashlyk, Oleksandr Kolotilin

Stategeocadastre, Ukraine

Opening remarks

Trevor Taylor

OGC, United States of America

Open Geospatial Consortium Draft White Paper on Land Administration

Christiaan Lemmen¹, Peter Van Oosterom², Mohsen Kalantari³, Eva-Maria Unger⁴, Cornelis De Zeeuw⁴

¹Kadaster and University of Twente, The Netherlands; ²Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; ³University of Melbourne, Australia; ⁴Kadaster, The Netherlands

Cities, Land Use and Property Rights

Edward Glaeser

Harvard University, United States of America

Discussant

Anacláudia Rossbach

Cities Alliance, Brazil

Discussant

Robert Lewis-Lettington

UN-HABITAT, Kenya

Implementation of Land Rights Commitments Through Suppliers

Andrew Slight

PepsiCo, United States of America

A Multi-stakeholder Approach to Addressing Land Tenure Risk Through the Supply Chain

Donald Bryson Ogden

Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America

Opportunities in Private Sector Engagement and Action on Land Rights

Joan Carling

Indigenous Peoples Major Group for the SDGs, United States of America

Implementing Land Rights Commitments Across Company Operations

Laura Eshbach

Landesa, United States of America

Harnessing Ukraine's Economic Potential through Open Land Markets: Current Status and Next Steps

Maksym Martynyuk

Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine

Capitalizing on Land Reform's Investment Potential by Ensuring Credit Access for Small Farmers: Challenges and Prospects

Leah Soroka, Vahe Vardanyan

World Bank, United States of America

Legal and Administrative Measures to Protect Land Rights against Multiple Challenges

Olena Sukmanova

Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Ukraine

Using Monitoring Results to Take Ukraine's Land Governance to the Next Level

Oleksandr Kolotilin, Liudmyla Shemelynets

State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre, Ukraine

Linking Land Cadaster and Registry of Rights: Institutional Challenges and Technical Solutions

Stanislav Lurie

State Enterprise "National Information Systems", Ukraine

Helping Ukraine complete its journey towards transparency in the land sector

Klaus Deininger¹, Denys Nizalov²

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²University of Kent/ KEI at KSE, United Kingdom

A New Wave of Land Reforms in China: Conceptual Issues, Initial Evidence, and Avenues for Future Research

Songqing Jin

Zhejiang University, China, People's Republic of

Targeted Poverty Alleviation in China since 2013: Central Government’s Plan and Typical Local Practices

Yurui Li

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, China, People's Republic of

Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Land Policy Innovation in China: From Theory to Practices

Yang Zhou

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, People's Republic of

Improving land governance and increasing women’s access and control over land through collective actions – the case of Pernambuco

Patricia Maria Queiroz Chaves

Espaço Feminista, Brazil

The Untold Story – How Media Coverage Can Change The Narrative On Land And Property Rights

Astrid Zweynert

Thomson Reuters Foundation, United Kingdom

Using spatial data tools to support the development and sustainability of social land concessions for the landless or land-poor in Cambodia

Try Thy, Punwath Prum, David Hindley

Open Development Cambodia (ODC), Cambodia

Land Corruption in Africa: Secure Tenure Rights and Engage Local Communities

Jean Brice Tetka¹, Annette Jaitner¹, Michael Okai², Bienvenu Tsivozahy³

¹Transparency International-Secretariat, Germany; ²Transparency International-Ghana; ³Transparency International-Madagascar

An Assessment of PPPs in Land Administration: Development of a Set of Pre-requisites for Effective PPP Implementation

John Meadows, Kate Fairlie, Daniel Paez, Tony Burns

Land Equity International, Australia

Engaging the Private Sector: A Taxonomy of Real Problems Faced by Industry That Can Be Addressed by Improved Land Management Systems

Philip Edgar Auerswald^1,2, Gitanjali Swamy^2,3

¹George Mason University, United States of America; ²Zilla Global LLC; ³Iotask LLC

Contracting out services for land regularization. The new roles of the private sector in land administration

Victor Endo¹, Luis Triveno², Enrique Pantoja²

¹Land Alliance, Peru; ²World Bank, USA

Conceptual Design of a Private Investment Scorecard for Land Administration in Developing Countries

Daniel Paez¹, Tony Burns²

¹Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; ²Land Equity International

Benefits Sharing Model on Large Scale Investment in Land: A Case of Large Scale Investment in Tanzania

Mbaraka Stambuli

Ministry of Lands Housing and Human Settlements Development, Land Tenure Support Programme (LTSP), Tanzania

Identifying Community Membership in Collective Land Tenure: Exploring Linkages and Sharing Experiences in the Case of River Cess County in Liberia

Ali Kaba

The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI)

Innovative Mechanisms For Better Responsible In Large-Scale Land Based Investment In Agriculture And Forestry Development In Vietnam

Nguyen Anh Phong¹, Pham Quang Tu², Ta Thu Trang¹

¹Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam; ²OXFAM Vietnam

Towards Responsible Agricultural Investment in Lao PDR: a study of agribusiness experiences

Justine Morven Sylvester

GIZ, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Mapping and Territory: What Critical Cartography Offers to an Analysis of Land Governance?

Fernando Galeana

Cornell University, USA

Conflict in Collective Formalization Processes: Opportunities for Transformation?

Anne Larson¹, Esther Mwangi², Iliana Monterroso¹, Nining Liswanti³, Tuti Herawati³

¹CIFOR, Peru; ²CIFOR, Kenya; ³CIFOR, Indonesia

Urgency of Village Boundary Setting / Resource Mapping, Villages and Land Governance in Indonesia

Muchammad Sigit Widodo¹, Akhmad Safik¹, Sofwan Hakim¹, Rubeta Andriani², Martin Hardiono², Kevin Barthel²

¹Millennium Challenge Account - Indonesia (MCA-Indonesia); ²Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

Addressing Encroachment on State Forest Land in Tunisia

Amanda Bradley, Jamel Kailene

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy

Transitions to land tenure rights based on the ‘living customary law’: innovations to secure land rights in peri-urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa

Emaculate Ingwani¹, Simon Bekker²

¹University of Venda, South Africa; ²Stellenbosch University

Institutional Framework and Access to Land in Peri-urban Tanzania: A Perspective from Actors

Said Nuhu

Ardhi University, Tanzania

Planning rural areas in an urbanized world: Critical issue for Colombia

Margarita María Varón Perea¹, Javier Caropresse¹, Andres Mejía¹, Angela Penagos²

¹Colombia Rural, Colombia; ²RIMISP, Colombia

Development Control in Practice: Protection of Agricultural Land in Kosovo

Shkelqim Daci¹, Servet Spahiu²

¹GIZ, Kosovo; ²Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning

Reframing Local Land Use Planning Methods and Tools In South West Cameroon as a Foundation for Secure Tenure, Sustainable and Equitable Rural Development, and REDD+

Tim Fomete³, James Acworth², Arnaud Afana¹, Richard Sufo³, Jos Bonnemaijer², Uchendu Chigbu⁷, Harrison Ajebe⁴, Patrick Epie⁵, Massimiliano Rossi⁵, Thomas Sembres⁶, Pascal Douard³

¹Ministry of Economy, Plan and Territorial Management (MINEPAT); ²LTS international; ³Rainbow Environment Consult; ⁴Ajemalebu Self Help (AJESH); ⁵Rainforest Foundation UK; ⁶European Forest Institute (EFI); ⁷Technical University of Munich (TUM)

The "Where?" in Participatory Local Land Use Planning: A Web Mapping Approach in South-West Cameroon

James Acworth¹, Thomas Maschler², Tim Fomete⁶, Harrison Ajebe⁵, Pascal Douard⁷, William Apted¹, Simone Vaccari¹, Johannes Pirker⁸, Charlotte Wilczok³, Robert Kringel³, Patrick Epie⁴, Samuel Dieval⁴, Richard Sufo⁶, Patrice Nsegbe⁹

¹LTS international; ²World Resources Institute (WRI); ³German Federal Geosciences Institute (BGR); ⁴Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK); ⁵Ajemalebu Self Help (AJESH); ⁶Rainbow Environment Consult; ⁷European Forest Institute (EFI); ⁸International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); ⁹Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development (MINEPAT), Cameroon

A Tool for Ensuring Policy Impacting Research Results in Land Use Land Cover and Land use Planning

John Kalisa

World Bank Group, Rwanda

Village by Village, Map by Map: Lessons for One Map Implementation - Affecting Synergies Between Villages, Regulatory and Administrative Structures, Through an Interconnected, Participatory and Community Centred-Approach to Village Boundary Settings (VBS) in Indonesia.

Dhyana Paramita

Abt Associates, Indonesia

Community Land Protection in Liberia: The Impact on Neocustomary Norms and Institutions

Alexandra Hartman¹, Kate Marple-Cantrell², Heather Huntington², Adi Greif²

¹University College London, Political Science; ²The Cloudburst Group, United States of America

Does Tenure Reform Influence Household Food Security?

Nining Liswanti, Esther Mwangi, Michael Ndwiga, Tuti Herawati, Anne Larson, Iliana Monterosso

Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia

Silver Bullets or Shooting Blanks: Estimating the Impact of Formal Land Property Rights on Economic Development in Rural Colombia.

Camilo Pardo¹, Kurt Birson²

¹George Mason University, United States of America; ²George Mason University, United States of America

Rural property rights and migration: evidence from Ethiopia.

Sebastian Kriticos

The London School of Economics, United Kingdom

The Swedish Land Registry Blockchain Project: Update and Implications for Modernizing Land Registration Systems

Henrik Hjelte, Todd Miller

ChromaWay, United States of America

Dubai Real Estate Block Chain

Khalifa Alsuwaidi

Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates- Emirates Real Estate Solutions

Blockchain and Land: Proof of Concept

Aanchal Anand¹, Stela Mocan¹, Yasemin Palta¹, Peter Zhou¹, Mahesh Karajgi¹, Rumyana Tonchovska²

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²Food and Agriculture Organization

Blockchain - Georgian Experience Phase II

Papuna Ugrekhelidze, Elene Grigolia

National Agency of Public Registry Ministry of Justice of Georgia, Georgia

Gender Gap In Ownership To Agricultural Land In Rural Tanzania: Implications to Wealth Distribution

Sophia Kongela

ARDHI UNIVERSITY, Tanzania

Gender and Land Tenure Security in Gusii Kenya: Improving Household welfare through land Rights

Dolphine Kwamboka Isinta, Michael Flitner

Bremen University, Germany

Enhancing Women’s Land Rights Under Customary Tenure Through Issuance Of Certificates Of Customary Ownership And Communal Land Associations

Dorcas Wagima Okalany, Naome Kabanda

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

Gender-disaggregated data: A key prerequisite for realizing women’s land rights in Africa

Fridah Wanjiku Githuku¹, Dickson Njunge¹, Michelle McLinden-Nuijen²

¹GROOTS Kenya; ²LANDac/ Utrecht University, Netherlands, The

Introducing WOLTS: Action-oriented research on women’s land tenure security in Mongolia and Tanzania

Elizabeth Daley¹, Kristina Lanz¹, Yansanjav Narangerel², Amani Mhinda³, Zoe Driscoll¹, Natsagdorj Lkhamdulam², Joyce Ndakaru³, Jim Grabham¹

¹Mokoro Ltd, United Kingdom; ²People Centered Conservation (PCC), Mongolia; ³HakiMadini, Tanzania

Nested Interconnection: Transgressing Community-Based Natural Resource Management towards Innovating Collective Landscape Mobilization

Ratchada Arpornsilp^1,2, Rawee Thaworn²

¹Cornell University (CU), United States of America; ²The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC), Thailand

Using Data to Support Women’s Rights: Property Markets and Housing Rights through a Gender Equity Lens

Sylvia Luchini, Karly Kiefer, Bill Endsley

IHC Global, United States of America

Sharing Evaluation Findings with Community Stakeholders

Kate Marple-Cantrell

The Cloudburst Group, United States of America

Setting the agenda for Government’s catalytic role in Democratic Republic of Congo: harnessing land resources for development

Lumeya Dhu Maleghi

Ministère des Affaires Foncières, Congo, Democratic Republic of the

The Role of Customary Authorities in Facilitating Governance

Drani Stephen Izakare

Madi Community

Developing requisite capacities for land governance in Africa

Paul Tchawa

University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon

Secured Land Rights and Sustainable Agricultural Investments

Harison Randriarimanana

Presidency in charge of Agriculture and Livestock, Madagascar

Envision Integrated Land Use Policy and Planning to Enahanced Land Governance in Ethiopia: Practice and Challenges

Ato Belete Tafere

Prime Minister Office, Ethiopia

Putting It All together: Whose Land? Whose Agenda?

Joan Kagwanja

UNECA, Ethiopia

The Fight to Eliminate Fraud, Corruption, Tax Avoidance and Evasion in Land Administration

David Laurence Magor

Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation, United Kingdom

Land Registries, Fraud and Money Laundering

Nicolás Nogueroles¹, Jan Moerkerke², Jacques Vos³, Luis Alberto Aliaga Huaripata⁴, Eduardo Martinez⁵, Oscar Rodriguez⁶

¹IPRA-CINDER (International Property Registries Association), Spain; ²ELRA (European Land Registries Association)Belgium; ³Kadaster Holland; ⁴Tribunal Registral de Peru; ⁵Colegio de Registradores Spain; ⁶Registro Nacional de Costa Rica

Fraud And Money Laundering in the Land Registry of Costa Rica

Oscar Rodríguez Sánchez

Registro Nacional, Costa Rica

European Directives and the Role of the Land and Business Registries Against Money Laundering and Terrorism

Carmen Miquel

IPRA-CINDER, Spain

Fraud Prevention Through the Key Registries in Netherland

Jacob Vos

Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The

Money Laundering in Peru, Preventive Measures and Fight From the Public Registries

Luis Alberto Aliaga Huaripata

Superintendencia Nacional de los Registros Publicos, Peru

How to Fight Fraud by Double Sales and Overlapping Registration of Real Property in A Simple Way - the Belgian Example

Jan Moerkerke

ELRA - European Land Registry Association, Belgium

Scalable Platform Based On Open Source For Land Administration Systems

Sergiy Lizenko, Maksym Kalyta, Vasyl Melnychuk

Innola Solutions, Inc., United States of America

Harmonizing Laws and Regulations with New Technologies and Innovations in Land Administration

Tarek Zein

Hansa Luftbild AG, Germany

Interconnected Donors: Sustainable Development from Pilot to Delivery at Scale

Kent Johan Ronny Nilsson¹, Frank Pichel², Maria Lodin³

¹Lantmäteriet, Sweden; ²Cadasta Foundation, USA; ³Kartverket, Norway

Sharing Information to make better decisions about our World

Trevor Taylor

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), United States of America

Taking Land Governance Performance Monitoring To The Next Level: Towards a Uniform Vision For Data Standards

Lisette Mey, Neil Sorensen, Laura Meggiolaro

Land Portal Foundation

How People-Centered Land Monitoring can Contribute to the Realization of the SDGs and VGGTs – The case of ILC's Dashboard

Ward Anseeuw¹, Eva Hershaw²

¹CIRAD / International Land Coalition, Italy; ²International Land Coalition, Italy

Strengthening Global Coordination for Land Governance Monitoring and Data for Policy Decisions; Experiences from Global Land Indicators Initiative

Everlyne Nairesiae Lingoine

GLII/GLTN - UN Habitat

Land Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Consolidating and Harmonizing Monitoring Initiatives

Neil Sorensen¹, Laura Meggiolaro¹, Romy Sato²

¹Land Portal Foundation, France; ²Global Donor Working Group on Land

Resilient Housing for Resilient Cities

Theresa Williamson

Catalytic Communities, Brazil

Do Families Want to Invest in Making Their Homes More Resilient?

Julie Abrams

MicroBuild Fund and Impact Investing Analytics, United States of America

Can We Actually Retrofit Homes? Does It Make Economic and Social Sense?

Elizabeth Ann Hausler

Build Change, United States of America

How Can We Leverage Technology to Identify Housing Units that Need Retrofitting at a Low-cost?

Sarah Antos

World Bank, United States of America

Deforestation Risks: Financial Costs and Tropical Agriculture Supply Chains

Gabriel Thoumi. CFA. FRM

Climate Advisers, United States of America

Facing Criticism: Responsibility, Large-Scale Land Acquisition, and its Critics

Tijo Salverda

University of Cologne, Germany

Land and Poverty through the prism of the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries: Sustainable development, Large Scale Land Based investments and its impacts on land rights, poverty alleviation and food security in Tanzania.

Maïmouna-Lise Pouye

University of Oslo, Norway

The First Biennial Investor Survey on Land Rights: Revealing the perceptions and practices of the private sector on land and resource issues and risks

Jeffrey Hatcher¹, Sarah Lowery², Daphne Yin¹, Iris Dicke¹, Michael Owen¹, Yijia Chen³

¹Indufor North America, United States of America; ²USAID; ³Individual

Linking The Continuum Of Land Rights To Production Orientation And Management Styles: Lessons From Research In Namibia

Elke Astrid Matthaei^1,2

¹GIZ, Germany; ²University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Strengthening Women’s Land Rights: Lessons From Agricultural Development Programmes In Sub-Saharan Africa

Elisa Mandelli, Steven Jonckheere, Anja Rabezanahary, Harold Liversage

IFAD, Italy

Capacity Development Lessons from Tenure Security Learning Initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa (TSLI-ESA)

Uchendu Eugene Chigbu¹, Agatha Wanyonyi², Brendah Achungo², Solomon Mkumbwa², Oumar Sylla², Harold Liversage³

¹Technical University of Munich, Germany; ²GLTN/UN-HABITAT, Kenya; ³IFAD, Italy

Mainstreaming support for good land governance into agricultural and rural development programmes: Lessons from IFAD-supported projects

Steven Raoul Filip Jonckheere, Harold Liversage

IFAD, Italy

Analysis And Reflection On Methodologies And Practices For The Formalization Of Land Rights

Florian Lebourdais, Jean-François Dalbin

Ordre des Géomètres-experts, France

Market-led Initiatives To Land Tenure Security In Ghana: Contribution Of Gated Communities

Richmond Juvenile Ehwi, Peter Tyler, Nicky Morrison

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Impact and Effectiveness of Urban Planning on City Spatial Development – A Case of Tanzania Secondary Cities

Chyi-Yun Huang¹, Ally Hassan Namangaya², MaryGrace Weber¹, Isabel D Cantada¹

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²Ardhi University, Tanzania

Impact of Litigation on the Real Estate Market in Mumbai

Sahil Gandhi¹, Vaidehi Tandel², Alex Tabarrok³, Shamika Ravi⁴

¹Tata Institute of Social Sciences; ²IDFC Institute; ³George Mason University; ⁴Brookings India and Member, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council

Environmental Rural Cadaster (CAR) in the Priority Municipalities for Deforestation Monitoring and Control in Amazonia, Brazil

Rejane Marques Mendes¹, Bernardo de Araújo Moraes Trovão¹, Janaína de Almeida Rocha¹, Carlos Henrique Pires Luiz², Leandro Meneguelli Biondo¹, Carlos Eduardo Portella Sturm¹, Ricardo Abad Meireles Mendonça³, Pedro de Almeida Salles¹, Tatiana de Azevedo Branco Calçada¹, Gustavo Henrique Oliveira¹

¹Brazilian Forest Service / Ministry of the Environment; ²Pro-Nature Foundation, Brazil; ³German Agency for International Cooperation - GIZ

Rural environmental registry for traditional peoples and communities: Social participation and the history of enhancement of the module of registration

Gabriela Berbigier Gonçalves Guimarães Grisolia¹, Janaina de Almeida Rocha¹, Elisa de Siqueira², Carlos Portella Sturm¹, Rejane Marques Mendes¹, Lilianna Gomes¹

¹Ministry of Environment, Brazil; ²GITEC-IGIP GmbH

FNDF Semi-arid Rural Environmental Registry Public Call: Experiences, Results and Perspectives

Lara Souto, Cristina Galvão Alves, Janaína Rocha

Brazilian Forest Service, Brazil

Legitimizing the State or a Grievance?: Land Restitution and Titling in Colombia

Jacob Kopas

Columbia University, United States of America

Land and Growth

Ejaz Ghani

World Bank, United States of America

Property Rights Reforms and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico

Matthew Pecenco, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

UC Berkeley, United States of America

Blockchain, Real Estate, and Land Governance

Michael Graglia, Christopher Mellon

New America, United States of America

Blockchain Technology: The Safest Way For Better Land Governance?

Juan Pablo Soliz Molina

Thomson Reuters Bolivia s.r.l.

Evaluating the Use of Blockchain in Land Transactions: An Archival Science Perspective

Victoria Lemieux

The University of British Columbia, Canada

What Should We (Not) Do With Land Administration Data? The Risk Of Privatization And Blockchain`s Code As Law

Jacob Vos

Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The

Women’s Land Rights as a Pathway to Poverty Reduction A Framework and Review of Available Evidence

Ruth Meinzen-Dick¹, Agnes Quisumbing¹, Cheryl Doss², Sophie Theis¹

¹IFPRI, United States of America; ²Oxford University

Exploring Gender-Biased Customary Land Tenure Systems in Ghana: Results from Focus Groups with Men and Women Farmers in the Northern Region

Gina Rico Mendez, Kathleen Ragsdale, Mary R. Read-Wahidi

Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University, United States of America

Ensuring Gender Mainstreaming in the Design and Implementation of REDD + Related Activities

Katharina Siegmann

World Bank, United States of America

Innovations in Securing Land and Resource Rights for the Poor and Women in Customary Settings: the Case of Chamuka Chiefdom, Zambia

Solomon Mkumbwa¹, Morgan Kumwenda², Farirai Shumba³, Helen Nyamweru Ndungu¹, Oumar Sylla¹, Danilo Antonio¹

¹UN-HABITAT/GLTN, Kenya; ²His Royal High Chief Chamuka IV, Chisamba, Zambia; ³People’s Process on Housing and Poverty in Zambia

Improved land registration in Plateau State and its impact on land market and government revenue

Solomon Hoomlong¹, Gabriel Arancibia², Chiemeka Ngwu³

¹Plateau Ministry of Lands, Survey and Town Planning, Nigeria; ²Thomson Reuters, Canada; ³Teqbridge Ltd., Nigeria

Meeting the Governance Challenges of Agriculture Land Registration in Nigeria

Austen Okumo, Regina Birner

Hohenheim University, Germany

Digital Cadastre with Manual Land Tenure Systems Scale-Up in Ethiopia

EskedarZelalem Mengistu¹, Tigistu G/meskel², Adam Podolcsak¹, Bernd Eversmann¹, Tommi Tenno¹, Tarek Zein³, Yohannes Redda²

¹NIRAS Responsible And Innovative Land Administration(REILA_2) Projec In Ethiopia; ²Ministry Of Agriculture and Natural Resource Rural Land Administration and Use Directorate; ³Hanas Luftbild

Best Practice in Land Administration Project Implementation: Challenging Existing Orthodoxies in Customary Land Governance in Ghana

John Bugri

KNUST, Ghana

Enabling Gender-Disaggregated Reporting on Land Ownership and Use: How FAO Collaborates with Partners to Make It Possible

Pietro Gennari, Chiara Brunelli

FAO, Italy

Helping to Establish the Methodology for Country-level Data Collection on Key (Urban) Land Data Globally: The Role of UN Habitat

Aisa Kacyira, Robert Lewis-Lettington, Oumar Sylla

UN-HABITAT, Kenya

Moving SDG indicators 1.4.2. & 5.a.1 to tier I: Why and how

Gero Carletto, Klaus Deininger, Thea Hilhorst, Wael Zakout

World Bank, United States of America

Making Room for Urban Expansion in Colombia

Nicolas Galarza

New York University, United States of America

Making Room for Urban Expansion in Ethiopia

Bizualem Admasu Nesir

Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, Ethiopia

Using Land Value Capture in Transport Oriented Development in Cape Town

Craig John Kesson

City of Cape Town, South Africa

Urban Growth Scenarios: Perspectives from Jordan, Indonesia, Côte d'Ivoire and Mexico

Ricardo Ochoa Sosa, Tania Guerrero Ríos, Carmen Valdez Berriozábal, Guillermo Velasco Rodríguez

CAPSUS S.C.

Evaluating the Impacts of the Dar es Salaam BRT System

Gharad Bryan³, Melanie Morten², Bilal Siddiqi¹

¹World Bank; ²Stanford University; ³London School of Economics

Charting new ground: Towards an evidence-based approach to capitalize on Africa's land resources

Klaus Deininger

World Bank, United States of America

Reaping the Dividends of an Improved Land Administration System in Rwanda: A Post-land Tenure Regularisation Reflection

Emmanuel Nkurunziza

Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Kenya

Improving land taxation in Africa: Practical ways for moving ahead

Riel Franzsen

African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria

Improving Africa's Analytical Capacity on Land

Innocent Matshe

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

Property Tax Reform

Rajul Awasthi

World Bank, United States of America

Land Taxes: An Opportunity to Make Urbanization Self-financing

Michael Blake

International Growth Centre, United Kingdom

The Potential for Taxing Urban Vacant Land in Kampala, Uganda

Astrid Haas, Mihaly Kopanyi

International Growth Centre, Uganda

Harnessing Zambia’s Land Potential

Joseph Minango, Kelvin Chibangula

Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, Zambia

Measuring Geospatial Maturity; a First Step Towards Sensible, Sustainable and Resilient Investment

John David Kedar, Neil Dewfield, James Darvill, Kimberley Worthy

Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom

Spatial Data Infrastructure Diagnostic Tool - Partnerships for Implementation

Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Kathrine Kelm², Peter ter Haar³

¹Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, Italy; ²World Bank, USA; ³Senior Geospatial Consultant

Open Data and Spatial Data Infrastrcuture Develpment in Moldova

Ovdii Maria

Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre of Moldova, Moldova

SERBIAN NSDI DIGITAL PLATFORM: „Collect. Connect. Create.“ — Our words for the future

Darko Vucetic, Borko Draskovic, Nemanja Paunic, Miroslav Hrcan

Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia

The legal component, one of the key segments for NSDI development in Republic of Macedonia

Sonja Dimova

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

The Challenges of Multi-Level and Multi-Stakeholder Land Tenure Projects - The case of Burundi - Abstract

Irutingabo Jean Pierre, David Betge, Andrew Lippett

ZOA INTERNATIONAL-BURUNDI, Burundi

Contribution Of Pngt2-3 To the Generalization Of The Application Of Law 034-2009 / An On The Burkina Faso Rural Land Regime: Success - Insufficiency And Lessons Learned

Moussa Ouedraogo¹, Issifou Ganou¹, Suleymane Nassa²

¹Observatoire National du Foncier au Burkina Fas; ²Deuxième Programme National de Gestion des Terroirs

Côte d’Ivoire The Implementation Of The Rural Land Ownership Law

Jean-Philippe Lestang¹, David Loue², Gerard Paillat³, Franck-Yves Dabin^1,3

¹GEOFIT, France; ²Agence foncière rurale (AFOR).; ³CETIF

Scaling-up Effective Land Administration in Urban DRC: A Case Study of a Pilot Project in Beni, North Kivu.

Lobo Ngumba Aime¹, Serges Kakule Vutegha¹, Gracien Ahadi Senzeru¹, Kahindo Mwirima Nicole¹, Kyle Hamilton¹, Oumar Sylla², Danilo Antonio², Armand Ndilmbaye², Christol Paluku²

¹UN-Habitat/Global Land Tool Network; ²Université Chrétienne Bilingue du Congo (UCBC)

Leveraging Big Data to Promote Sustainable Supply Chains: The Case of Paraguay’s Beef Sector

Ryan Sarsfield², Peter Veit², Matt Sommerville¹

¹USAID Tenure and Global Climate Change Project, Tetra Tech; ²World Resources Institute

Can Consumer-Led Initiatives Reinforce Government Action To Arrest Tropical Deforestation Driven By Industrial Agriculture?

Arthur Blundell

Natural Capital Advisors, United States of America

Multi-level public-private governance arrangements for sustainable palm oil in Indonesia

Pablo Pacheco

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia

Are Sustainable Pathways Possible for Oil Palm Development in Latin America?

Colombine Lesage^1,2,3, Laurène Feintrenie^3,4,5

¹ENSAIA, Nancy, France.; ²Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.; ³CIRAD - Forests and Societies research unit, Montpellier, France.; ⁴CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica.; ⁵ICRAF, Lima, Peru.

Examining the Real Costs of Community-led Rights Documentation from USAID’s Experience in Burma and Zambia

Emiko Guthe, Matt Sommerville

USAID Tenure and Global Climate Change Project, Tetra Tech

Mapping Community Land in Mozambique: Opportunities and Challenges for Combining Technology with Good Land Governance

José Monteiro¹, Antonio Inguane¹, Emidio Oliveira¹, Madaleine Weber², David Palomino Valentín²

¹Community Land initiative (iTC); ²Cadasta Foundation

What do communities want from land reform? A socio-technical exploration of community-led land rights documentation projects

Kate Fairlie¹, Frank Pichel², Serene Ho³

¹Land Equity International, Australia; ²Cadasta Foundation; ³KU Leuven

"Rethinking Customary Land Governance, Fiduciary Duties and Development Opportunities form a Real Estate Management Perspective"

Rexford Ahene

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE/ FAO-NRC, United States of America

Enabling Market to Deliver Affordable Urban Land and Housing at Scale: What Can We Learn and Adapt from China to Ethiopia?

Yan Zhang¹, Ambachew Mekonenn², Abebe Zeluel², Peter Ellis¹, Abebaw Alemayehu¹, Isabel Cantada¹, Abuye Aneley²

¹World Bank; ²The Ministry of Urban Development and Housing

Land Use Problems and Land Management: A Land Inventory Study in Istanbul

Nihat Enver Ulger^1,3, Selcuk Aydemir², Can Iban³, Hakan Akbulut²

¹Avrasya Land Management and Urban Regeneration Strategy Development Center, Istanbul - Turkey; ²Emlak Konut Real Estate Investment Trust, Turkey; ³Okan University, Geomatics Engineering Department, Turkey

Spatial Planning Beyond Boundaries

Georg Jahnsen Jahnsen, Felix Knopf, Elke Matthaei, Abhishek Agarwal, Sumana Chatterjee, Tanaya Saha, Shriman Narayan

GIZ, India

Improving Land Management By Introducing The Achievements Gained Through Pilot Projects

Dragana Godjevac Obradovic

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, Directorate for Agricultural Land, Serbia

Making Land Consolidation Feasible in the Western Balkans - Establishing a Focal Sub-Regional Expert Hub

Michael Becker

GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Kosovo

An Evaluation Of Land Consolidation Practices And Impact Assessment Of Projects: A Case Study Of Beyazaltin Village Land Consolidation Project In Eskisehir Province, Turkey

Metin Turker¹, Harun Tanrivermis²

¹General Directorate; ²Ankara University

Land Consolidation in Kosovo, Constrains and Difficulties

Pranvera Alshiqi Maloku

Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Gmbh, Kosovo

InteGra Powered PRIDE(TM)s - Resolving the problem of land fragmentation and enhancing crop productivity

Chanchal Pramanik, Srinivasu Pappula, Sudhakara Ganesh, Navin Twarakavi, Ravinkumar S, Richa Hukumchand, Avil Saunshi

Tata Consultancy Services, India

Land Tenure Systems and Urban Land Use: theory, and evidence from Kampala City

Julia Bird, Tony Venables

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Understanding Housing Consumption Behavior Across The Formal And Informal Land Market Divide: Econometric Estimations And Household Views From Metropolitan Buenos Aires

Cynthia Goytia¹, Robin Rajack²

¹Harvard University and Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentine Republic; ²Inter American Development Bank

The Brazilian Housing Program - Minha Casa Minha Vida – Effect on Urban Sprawl

Ciro Biderman, Frederico Roman Ramos, Martha Hanae Hiromoto

Fundacao Getulio Vargas - Sao Paulo, Brazil

Housing at the Centre of Urban Policies: The Case of Peru

Emilio Matuk¹, Luis Triveno²

¹29x55, Peru; ²World Bank

The Need For Technology And Approaches Of Tomorrow

Cornelis de Zeeuw, Christiaan Lemmen

Kadaster, Netherlands, The

Megatrends Shaping the Future Cadastral Systems

Kirsikka Riekkinen^1,2, Pauliina Krigsholm^2,1

¹Aalto University, Finland; ²National Land Survey of Finland

Innovations in Land Data Governance: Unstructured Data, NoSQL, Blockchain, and Big Data Analytics Unpacked

Rohan Bennett, Mark Pickering, Jason Sargent

Swinburne Business School, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Future National Geospatial Agencies: Shaping Their Contribution To Society And The Sustainable Development Goals

John David Kedar, Kimberley Worthy, James Darvill, Victoria Giddings

Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom

Women's Land Rights and Food Security in Kenya: Challenges and Opportunities

Muriuki Muriungi¹, Patricia Kameri-Mbote²

¹University of Nairobi, Kenya; ²University of Nairobi, Kenya

Women’s Land Rights in Liberia: How can they be Protected and Strengthened in the Land Reform Process?

Justine Ntale Uvuza¹, Jennifer Duncan¹, My-Lan Dodd¹, Izatta Ngabe², Lena Cummings³, Vivian Neal⁴

¹LANDESA, United States; ²Land Governance Support Activity , Liberia; ³Women’s NGO Secretariat of Liberia, Liberia; ⁴Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia, Liberia

The Effectiveness of a Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Strategy in Changing Social Attitudes on Equal Rights to Property for Women – The Case of Kosovo

Merita Limani, Driton Zeqiri, Don Cuizon

USAID Property Rights Program, Tetra Tech

Customary land tenurein matrilineal societies of Tanzania: Does inheritance matter?Experience from Morogoro rural district

Jenesta Urassa

Ardhi University, Tanzania

After the Title? Building a Multi-Stakeholder Platform in Support of Territorial Governance in Honduras

Roman Alvarez¹, Enrique Pantoja², Fernando Galeana³, Mary Lisbeth Gonzalez²

¹Property Institute; ²The World Bank; ³Cornell University

Sustainability Of Land Use And Land Tenure Systems: A Case Study Of Polatli District In Ankara Province, Turkey

Yesi̇m Ali̇efendi̇oglu, Harun Tanrıvermiş

Ankara University

Formalising Land Rental Transactions in Ethiopia – Is Land Certification enough?

Christina Mayr¹, Ignacio Fiestas¹, John Leckie²

¹Nathan Associates, United Kingdom; ²DAI, United Kingdom

Securing Customary Land Rights For Development In Namibia: Learning From New Approaches, Opportunities And Social Settings.

Prisca Mandimika¹, Jericho Mulofwa²

¹Ministry of Land Reform, Namibia; ²Ministry of Land Reform - Project for Communal Land Development.

Opening Remarks

Oumar Sylla

UN-Habitat, Kenya

Guidelines for Impact Evaluation of Land Tenure and Governance Interventions

Jennifer Lisher

Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America

Discussant

Heather Huntington

Cloudburst Consulting Group, United States of America

Discussant

Michael O'Sullivan

World Bank, United States of America

Discussant

Caleb Stevens

USAID, United States of America

Discussant

Jolyne Sanjak

Landesa, United States of America

Creating Value to Capture It – Property Rights in Nairobi

Augustine Masinde Khaemba¹, George Arwa²

¹Ministry of Land,Housing and Urban Development, Kenya; ²Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, Kenya

Land Value Capture in South Africa: Applicability and Constraints

Rob McGaffin

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Porto Maravilho: Creating Social and Economic Value through Revitalization of Rio de Janeiro’s Industrial Waterfront

Alberto Silva

UNHabitat, Brazil

Improving Coverage In A Challenging Environment: Evidence And Lessons From Kano

Malandi Umar Kura

Kano State Bureau for Land Management

Building a Unified Land Information System for All Tenure Types

Victorien D. Kougblenou

ANDF, Benin

Challenges And Benefits From Integrating Textual And Spatial Data

Oscar Rodríguez Sánchez

Registro Nacional, Costa Rica

From Diagnosis to Action: Using Monitoring Data to Improve Governance

Denys Nizalov¹, Denis Bashlyk²

¹University of Kent/ KEI at KSE, United Kingdom; ²Stategeocadastre

Real estate registration system in Dubai: leveraging innovation and the impact of data centralization

Sultan Alakraf

Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates

The SDG Indicator on Land Degradation Neutrality

Melchiade Bukuru

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, United States of America

Forests, Trees and Agroforestry: contribution to Land Degradation Neutrality

Robert Nasi

CIFOR, Indonesia

Landscapes and Land Degradation Neutrality

Janet Ranganathan

World Resources Institute, United States of America

The Economics of Land Degradation Neutrality in Asia

Pushpam Kumar

UNEP, Kenya

Discussant

Gregory Scott

United Nations Statistics Division, United States of America

The VGGT and F&G: Versatile Tools for Tenure Governance

Wordsworth Odame Larbi

FAO, Ethiopia

Open Data as a Mechanism of Social Change for Vulnerable Urban Communities

David Palomino², Madaleine Weber², Daniel Cotillas¹, Maria Luisa Zanelli¹

¹Habitat for Humanity; ²Cadasta

Towards Transparency in Land Ownership: a Methodology to Research Beneficial Land Ownership

Caitlin Pierce², Nick Tagliarino³, Poppea Daniel⁵, Megan MacInnes⁴, Jean Brice Tetka¹, Leon Verstappen³, Annette Maria Jaitner¹

¹Transparency International Secretariat, Germany; ²Traverse Research; ³IALTA; ⁴Global Witness; ⁵Research Consultant

A Global Review of Land Tenure, Climate Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity

David Mitchell¹, Darryn McEvoy¹, Danilo Antonio²

¹RMIT University, Australia; ²Land and GLTN Unit, UN-Habitat, Kenya

Drawing on Best Practice to Assess the Geomaturity of a Country’s NSDI Using a Recent Example of the Work Undertaken in Greece

Alkiviadis Lamprou², Dr. Vanessa Lawrence CB^1,4, Georgios Papakyriakopoulos¹, John Schonegevel³

¹The World Bank; ²Ministry of Environment and Energy, Government of Greece; ³New Frontiers Ltd; ⁴Location International

A Model for Modernizing the Organization of Land Registration Systems

Georgios Papakyriakopoulos¹, Dr. Vanessa Lawrence CB^1,2, John Schonegevel³, Dr. Maria Zifou⁴, Alkiviadis Lamprou⁴

¹The World Bank; ²Location International; ³New Frontiers Ltd; ⁴Ministry of Environment and Energy, Government of Greece

Understanding Business Planning for the Modernisation of a Land Registration System

Avgerinos Avgerinou – Panagiotou¹, Dr Maria Zifou², Alkiviadis Lamprou², Georgios Papakyriakopoulos¹, Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB^1,3, John Schonegevel⁴

¹World Bank; ²Ministry of Environment and Energy, Government of Greece; ³Location International; ⁴New Frontiers Ltd

Creating a Strategy for the Organisational Modernisation of a Land Registration System

Dr. Maria Zifou², Alkiviadis Lamprou², Georgios Papakyriakopoulos¹, Avgerinos Avgerinou-Panagiotou¹, Dr. Vanessa Lawrence CB^1,3, John Schonegevel⁴

¹The World Bank; ²Ministry of Environment and Energy, Government of Greece; ³Location International; ⁴New Frontiers Ltd

Understanding The ‘People Issues’ Of Organisationally Modernising a Land Registration System

Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB^1,3, Dr Maria Zifou², Alkiviadis Lamprou², Georgios Papakyriakopoulos³, Avgerinos Avgerinou – Panagiotou³, John Stokes⁴

¹Location International; ²Ministry of Environment and Energy, Government of Greece; ³World Bank; ⁴New Frontiers Ltd

From Abundance to Scarcity: Consequences of Large Scale Land Acquisitions in central Mali.

Camilla Toulmin

Lancaster University/IIED, United Kingdom

Bottlenecks and Opportunities to Generate Economic and Environmental Benefits out of Sustainable Forest Plantations in Mozambique

Andre Aquino, Joao Moura

World Bank, Mozambique

Labor Impacts of Large Agricultural Investments: focus on Mozambique, Kenya and Madagascar

Perrine Burnod¹, Ward Anseeuw², Sara Mercandalli³, Aurelien Reys⁴, Markus Giger⁵, Boniface Kiteme⁶, Tsilavo Ralandison⁷

¹French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) and Malagasy Land Observatory, Madagascar; ²CIRAD and International Land Coalition (ILC), Rome; ³CIRAD and University of Pretoria, South Africa; ⁴CIRAD, France; ⁵Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland; ⁶CETRAD (Centre for Training and Integrated Research In ASAL Development), Kenya; ⁷University of Kyoto, Japan

Legal Claim Making in Large-Scale Land Based Investments – Does it Help Affected Communities?

Annette Schramm

University of Tuebingen, Germany

Mobile Applications for Secure Tenure (MAST) and the Technical Register for Social Tenure (TRUST) – development and applications in Iringa and Mbeya Districts in Tanzania

Tressan Sullivan¹, Malaki Msigwa², Mustapha Issa³, Clive English⁴, Alexander Solovov⁵

¹DAI US; ²DAI US; ³DAI US; ⁴DAI Europe; ⁵DAI US

Strengthening GIS standards to improve monitoring of land indicators for SDGs: Using India as a use case

Pranab Ranjan Choudhury¹, Marcello De Maria^2,3, Laura Meggiolaro²

¹Natural Resources Management Consultants (NRMC), India; ²Land Portal Foundation, Netherlands; ³University of Reading, United Kingdom

An Overview Of Innovative Tools For Land Tenure Documentation

Monica Lengoiboni, Christine Richter, Jaap Zevenbergen

ITC, University of Twente, Netherlands, The

Apps and Drones for Better Land Governance

Angela Arnante¹, Rene Sanapo², Jaime Faustino³

¹Foundation for Economic Freedom, Philippines; ²Foundation for Economic Freedom, Philippines; ³The Asia Foundation, Philippines

Achieving Urban Spatial justice in South Africa: Context, Reality and the Integrated Urban Development Framework

Michael Sutcliffe, Sue Bannister

City Insight (Pty) Ltd, South Africa

The Concentration Dilemma: Urban-Rural Transition in Metropolitan Area of Chengdu Since Early 2000s

Ting Chen

Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Zurich

Changing rural to urban in extractive territories. Land administration comparing Argentina, Chile, and Peru

Analia Garcia

MIT, United States of America