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Location: MC 4-100

Date: Tuesday, 26/Mar/2019
8:30am - 10:00am	01-04: Land administration and changing gender norms Session Chair: Oumar Sylla, UN-Habitat, Kenya
MC 4-100
	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 ¹Techninical University of Munich, Germany; ²UN-Habitat / Global Land Tool Network, Uganda; ³Kwame 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
10:30am - 12:00pm	02-04: Can land administration foster gender equality? Session Chair: Rumyana Tonchovska, UNFAO, Italy
MC 4-100
	Improving gender equality in land tenure in the Republic Geodetic Authority of Serbia Vasilija Zivanovic¹, Borko Draskovic¹, Rumyana Tonchovska², Sasa Rikanovic¹ ¹Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia; ²UN 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 ¹FAO, Italy; ²GIZ, Germany; ³UINL, 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
12:00pm - 2:00pm	Women's caucus
MC 4-100	Women's caucus
2:00pm - 3:30pm	03-04: Recognizing women's rights over common resources Session Chair: David Bledsoe, Resource Equity, United States of America
MC 4-100
	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 ¹IFPRI, United States of America; ²Namati; ³University 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 ¹International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Uganda; ²UN Habitat/GLTN, Uganda
3:45pm - 5:15pm	04-04: Legal and normative aspects of making law gender sensitive Session Chair: Jolyne Sanjak, Tetratech, United States of America
MC 4-100
	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 ¹Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Sierra Leone; ²Lafayette University, USA; ³Food 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

Date: Wednesday, 27/Mar/2019
8:30am - 10:00am	05-04: Land tenure for sustainable rangeland management Session Chair: Liz Alden Wily, independent, Kenya
MC 4-100
	Strengthening traditional institutions of nomadic herders for sustainable management of public rangelands in Mongolia Enkhamgalan Tseelei¹, Gankhuyag Nyam-ochir¹, Erdenechuluun Tumur² ¹National Federation of Pasture user groups of herders, Mongolia; ²National 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 ¹Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Tanzania; ²Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries; ³International 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 ¹The University of Nairobi, Kenya; ²Department 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
10:30am - 12:00pm	06-04: Gender and land policy Session Chair: Renee Giovarelli, Resource Equity, United States of America
MC 4-100
	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 ¹Ministry of Land Reform, Namibia; ²GIZ 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 ¹Huairou Commission, United States of America; ²UCOBAC, Uganda
12:00pm - 2:00pm	Women's caucus
MC 4-100	Women's caucus
2:00pm - 3:30pm	07-04: Beyond joint titling: Making land institutions gender-sensitive Session Chair: Bina Agarwal, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
MC 4-100
	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 ¹Ministry of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development, Uganda; ²UN-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 ¹Resource Equity, United States of America; ²Millennium 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 ¹Meridia, The Netherlands; ²Kadaster International, The Netherlands; ³ATR / BPN, Indonesia Promoting women’s right to land inheritance through agriculture incentivization Rene Claude Niyonkuru¹, Louis Marie Nindorera² ¹Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; ²Independent 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 ¹IHC Global, United States of America; ²Makerere University
3:45pm - 5:15pm	08-04: Ways to secure women's tenure in practice Session Chair: Janet Edeme, African Union Commission, Ethiopia
MC 4-100
	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 ¹We Effect, Tanzania; ²Tanzania 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 ¹Lantmäteriet, Sweden; ²Rwanda Land Management and Use Authority, Rwanda

Date: Thursday, 28/Mar/2019
8:30am - 10:00am	09-04: Harnessing benefits from urban planning Session Chair: Eric Heikkila, University of Southern California, United States of America
MC 4-100
	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 ¹Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom; ²Architecture, Planning and Environment LTD, United Kingdom Assessment of urban upgrading interventions in mekong delta region in Vietnam Mansha Chen¹, Van Thang Nguyen² ¹World Bank, United States of America; ²National Economics University, Vietnam
10:30am - 12:00pm	10-04: Harnessing the scope for incremental tenure upgrading Session Chair: Abdu Muwonge, World Bank, Kenya
MC 4-100
	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 ¹Habitat for Humanity International, Philippines; ²Habitat 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 ¹Cadasta Foundation, United States of America; ²Tata Trusts, India; ³Housing and Urban Development Department, Government of Odisha State, India Urban landholding registration in Ethiopia: law and practice Abdu Hussein Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
12:00pm - 2:00pm	Women's caucus
MC 4-100	Women's caucus
2:00pm - 3:30pm	11-04: Demand for and impacts of land tenure regularization Session Chair: Jennifer Lisher, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America
MC 4-100
	The socio-economic impact of implementing land registration and land information systems in Saudi Arabia Philip Auerswald¹, Muhamad Alrajhi² ¹George Mason University, United States of America; ²Ministry 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 ¹World Bank, United States of America; ²Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, Ghana; ³Northwestern 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

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