Conference Agenda

A tripartite normative interaction in land registration: inheritance and land information updating

Zaid Abubakari, Christine Richter, Jaap A. Zevenbergen

University of Twente, Netherlands

Women and customary land tenure: emerging developments and ways forward in Savelugu, Ghana

Prince Donkor Ameyaw¹, Uchendu Eugene Chigbu¹, Walter Timo de Vries¹, Simon Peter Mwesigye², Eric Yeboah³

1: Techninical University of Munich, Germany; 2: UN-Habitat / Global Land Tool Network, Uganda; 3: Kwame Nkrumah Univerisy of Science and Technonology, Ghana

Securing property rights for Women and children through Distributed Ledger Technology in Judiciary

Manohar Velpuri

Absolutum Consultancy Private Limited, India

Women and land: A conflict of culture and law

Beverly Mumbo, Miriam Wachira, Caroline Oduor, Teresa Omondi

Federation of Women Layers, Kenya

Improving gender equality in land tenure in the Republic Geodetic Authority of Serbia

Vasilija Zivanovic¹, Borko Draskovic¹, Rumyana Tonchovska², Sasa Rikanovic¹

1: Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia; 2: UN Food and Agriculture Organization

From laws to action: Achieving SDG indicator 5.a.2 in the Western Balkans

Naomi Kenney¹, Adela Llatja², Margreet Goelema², Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Lovro Tomasic³, Margret Vidar¹, Bianca Wengenmayer³

1: FAO, Italy; 2: GIZ, Germany; 3: UINL, Italy

Using open data to analyze participation in the labor market and property registration of women in Kosovo

Brikene Meha, Barlet Meha

Marin Sh.P.K., Kosovo

Women, Financial Inclusion and the Law: Why Property Rights matter for Women's access to and use of financial services

Tazeen Hasan, Nayda Almodovar

World Bank Group, United States of America

Securing women’s property rights in utilization of commons: Lessons from the Kadenge community of Yala Swamp

Hope Otieno

National Legal Aid Service, Kenya

Customary land tenure systems and gendered land rights in Ghana’s northern region: Results from phase II gender equity and land tenure focus groups

Gina Rico Mendez, Kathleen Ragsdale, Kelly Lower, Mary Read-Wahidi

Mississippi State University, United States of America

Women’s tenure security on collective lands: Implications for measurement and policy

Ruth Meinzen-Dick¹, Rachael Knight², Cheryl Doss³

1: IFPRI, United States of America; 2: Namati; 3: University of Oxford

Exploring the role of gender equity in customary land administration to boost production

Pamela Bella Nyamutoka Katooro¹, Simon Peter Mwesigye², Rose Mugabe¹, Alex Muhumuza¹

1: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Uganda; 2: UN Habitat/GLTN, Uganda

Land and womanhood- ethnography on propertied women in Bengal

Amrita Mondal

Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Germany

"Innovations to protect women’s customary land rights: Practical experiences from Sierra Leone."

Samuel Mabikke¹, Rexford Ahene², MariaPaola Rizzo³, Francesca Romano³

1: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Sierra Leone; 2: Lafayette University, USA; 3: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Italy

The farmer and her husband: legal innovations for women in contract farming

Sarah Brewin, Carin Smaller, Francine Picard, Sophia Murphy

IISD, Switzerland

Strengthening traditional institutions of nomadic herders for sustainable management of public rangelands in Mongolia

Enkhamgalan Tseelei¹, Gankhuyag Nyam-ochir¹, Erdenechuluun Tumur²

1: National Federation of Pasture user groups of herders, Mongolia; 2: National University of Agriculture, Mongolia

Landscape approach for addressing land use conflicts in pastoral areas: the case of Tanzania

Stephen Nindi¹, Victor Mwita², Deus Kalenzi³, Isaack Luambano³, Fiona Flintan³

1: Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Tanzania; 2: Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries; 3: International Livestock Research Institute

Emerging forms of land market participation and implications on pastoralists’ livelihoods in Kenya

Linet Rutoh¹, David Jakinda Otieno¹, Willis-Oluoch Kosura¹, Stephen Mureithi¹, Gert Nyberg²

1: The University of Nairobi, Kenya; 2: Department of Forest Ecology and Management, SLU, Sweden

Securing land rights for marginalized communities - Experience from working with Pastoralist, hunter and gathers in Tanzania

Naomi Shadrack Mwaiponya, Amina Ndiko

OXFAM, Tanzania

Evaluation results of a program aimed at reducing property grabbing among widows in Uganda

Andee Parks, Shawn Kohl, Jessica Kyle, Claire Wilkinson

International Justice Mission

Women's tenure rights across the rural urban continuum: implications for a gender responsive urban land reform in Namibia.

Prisca Mandimika¹, Thomas Haenert²

1: Ministry of Land Reform, Namibia; 2: GIZ Office Namibia

Community land titling: a contextual analysis of women’s land rights in Kenya

Erin Kitchell, Rachael Knight, Jaron Vogelsang

Namati, United States of America

Innovations to secure women's land rights and build resilience

Mino Harivelo Ramaroson¹, Gaynor Paradza¹, Birte Scholz¹, Frances Birungi²

1: Huairou Commission, United States of America; 2: UCOBAC, Uganda

Implementing Uganda's gender strategy on land through issuance of certificates of customary ownership : A case of Kabale and Adjumani districts in Uganda

Naome Justine Kabanda¹, Henry Harrison Irumba¹, Sylla Oumar², Simon Peter Mwesigye², Danilo Antonio²

1: Ministry of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development, Uganda; 2: UN-Habitat/Global Land Tool Network, Kenya

When joint ownership is not sufficient to ensure joint registration: Lessons from Cabo Verde

Elisa Scalise¹, Michelle Adato², Naomi Cassirer²

1: Resource Equity, United States of America; 2: Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America

Inclusive and gender-aware participatory land registration in Indonesia

Simon Ulvund¹, Eva Maria Unger², Chrit Lemmen², Christelle van den Berg², Tjeerd Wits¹, Resti Diah Utami¹, Hanhan Lukman³

1: Meridia, The Netherlands; 2: Kadaster International, The Netherlands; 3: ATR / BPN, Indonesia

Promoting women’s right to land inheritance through agriculture incentivization

Rene Claude Niyonkuru¹, Louis Marie Nindorera²

1: Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; 2: Independent Consultant

Storytelling: a powerful strategy to increase women’s access to land/property rights in Uganda and beyond

Judith Hermanson¹, Natalie R Gill¹, Sylvia Luchini¹, Jessica A Kaahwa²

1: IHC Global, United States of America; 2: Makerere University

The impact of land regularization in rural Tanzania; gender, rights and anti- poverty case: the civil society organization’s parallel support to the land tenure support programme

Nasieku Kisambu¹, Jonathan Kioko¹, Mary Richard²

1: We Effect, Tanzania; 2: Tanzania Women Lawyers Association, Tanzania

A multi-stakeholder approach to advancing women’s land rights using the SDGs framework: experience from Tanzania

Godfrey Massay

Landesa, Tanzania

Women’s tenure rights and land reform in Angola

Allan Cain

Development Workshop, Angola

Using institutional cooperation, focusing on Capacity Building, to secure Gender Equality

Kent Johan Ronny Nilsson¹, Grace Nishimwe²

1: Lantmäteriet, Sweden; 2: Rwanda Land Management and Use Authority, Rwanda

Contribution of urban green infrastructure to achieve sustainable development goals: an innovative mechanism to bring different actors together

Sisay Nune Hailemariam

World Bank, Ethiopia

Inclusive development? Paradox of state-led land development in India

Urmi Sengupta¹, Sujeet Sharma²

1: Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom; 2: Architecture, Planning and Environment LTD, United Kingdom

Assessment of urban upgrading interventions in mekong delta region in Vietnam

Mansha Chen¹, Van Thang Nguyen²

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: National Economics University, Vietnam

Formalizing the informal through incremental tenure strengthening in urban Battambang: Experience on tenure transformation in Cambodia

Rebecca Ochong¹, Bells Regino-Borja², Bernadette Bolo-Duthy², Keo Kanika²

1: Habitat for Humanity International, Philippines; 2: Habitat for Humanity, Cambodia

The Odisha Liveable Habitat Mission: The process and tools behind the world’s largest slum titling project

Frank Pichel¹, Shishir Ranjan Dash², G. Mathivathanan³, Shikha Srivastava²

1: Cadasta Foundation, United States of America; 2: Tata Trusts, India; 3: Housing and Urban Development Department, Government of Odisha State, India

Urban landholding registration in Ethiopia: law and practice

Abdu Hussein

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

The socio-economic impact of implementing land registration and land information systems in Saudi Arabia

Philip Auerswald¹, Muhamad Alrajhi²

1: George Mason University, United States of America; 2: Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Crop prices and the demand for titled land: evidence from Uganda

Viviana Maria Eugenia Perego

The World Bank, United States of America

The effects of land title registration on tenure security, investment and production: evidence from Ghana

Andrew Agyei-Holmes², Niklas Buehren¹, Markus Goldstein¹, Robert Osei², Isaac Osei-Akoto², Christopher Udry³

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, Ghana; 3: Northwestern University, Department of Economicsm, United States of America

Early lessons from the evaluation of land management reforms in Cabo Verde

Audrey Moore, Evan Borkum, Irina Cheban

Mathematica Policy Research, United States of America