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Conference Agenda

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Session Overview

Date: Monday, 25/Mar/2019
	Posters on display all day; Presenters available 12-2 PM and 5.30-6 PM or contact by email Location: MC Atrium
9:30am - 10:30am	00-01: Innovative approaches to land data generation Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Klaus Deininger, World Bank, United States of America
11:00am - 12:30pm	00-02: Using land data in innovative ways for policy and interventions Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Klaus Deininger, World Bank, United States of America
1:30pm - 2:30pm	00-03: Land ownership and development: Potential lessons for Africa from East Asia’s experience Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Joao Pedro Azevedo, The World Bank, United States of America
2:00pm - 4:00pm	00-04: Land in the World Bank's new Environmental and Social Framework Location: MC 2-800 Chair: Mary Lisbeth Gonzalez, World Bank, United States of America
2:45pm - 4:00pm	00-05: Using big data to advance land governance Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Trevor Monroe, The World Bank, United States of America
3:00pm - 4:00pm	00-16: Stand for her land Location: MC 4-800 Chair: Victoria Stanley, World Bank, United States of America
3:30pm - 4:15pm	Coffee Break Location: Front Lobby and Preston Lounge
4:30pm - 5:00pm	00-10: Conference opening Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Simeon Djankov, World Bank, United States of America
5:00pm - 6:00pm	00-11: Opening keynote Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Simeon Djankov, World Bank, United States of America
6:05pm - 6:10pm	Overflow Room Conference Opening and Keynote Location: Overflow rooms: Preston Lounge; MC 4-800
7:00pm	Poster Board 01-01 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 01-02 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 01-03 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 01-04 Location: MC Atrium
	Poster Board 01-05 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 01-06 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 01-07 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 01-08 Location: MC Atrium
	Poster Board 01-09 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 01-10 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 01-11 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 01-12 Location: MC Atrium
	Poster Board 01-13 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 01-14 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 01-15 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 01-16 Location: MC Atrium

Date: Tuesday, 26/Mar/2019
8:00am - 6:00pm	Posters on display all day; Presenters available 12-2 PM and 5.30-6 PM or contact by email Location: MC Atrium
8:30am - 10:00am	01-01: Land for African development: towards stakeholder synergies Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Estherine Lisinge Fotabong, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), South Africa Translation English - French	01-02: Strengthening land governance for sustainable growth in Ukraine Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Anthony A. Gaeta, The World Bank, United States of America VC	01-03: Ways to establish cadastral systems at scale Location: MC 2-800 Chair: Claire Galpin, World Bank, United States of America	01-04: Land administration and changing gender norms Location: MC 4-100 Chair: Oumar Sylla, UN-Habitat, Kenya
	01-05: Evaluating impacts of land tenure interventions Location: MC 5-100 Chair: Hosaena Ghebru, International Food Policy Research Institute, United States of America	01-06: Using data systems to increase accountability Location: MC 6-100 Chair: Michael Taylor, International Land Coalition, Italy	01-07: Managing public land for the common good Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Lorenzo Cotula, IIED, United Kingdom	01-08: Methodological approaches to urban property valuation Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Ruud Kathmann, Netherlands Council for Real Estate Assessment, Netherlands, Netherlands, The
	01-09: Using remote sensing to assess impacts of forest policy Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium	01-10: Land consolidation: A tool to improve land use Location: MC 10-100 Chair: Morten Hartvigsen, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Hungary	01-11: Fit for purpose land administration Location: MC C1-100 Chair: Yerach Doytsher, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel	01-12: Planning land use to attract investment Location: MC C1-200 Chair: Kaitlin Cordes, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America
	01-13: Formalizing customary tenure: How to make it work? Location: MC 7-860 Chair: Margaret Rugadya, Ford Foundation, Uganda
10:00am - 10:30am	Coffee Break Location: Front Lobby
10:30am - 12:00pm	02-01: Harnessing the IT & data revolution for African land policy Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Clement Adjorlolo, New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), South Africa	02-02: Spatial transformation to achieve green urban growth Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez, The World Bank, United States of America	02-03: Innovative technology in the land sector Location: MC 2-800 Chair: Steven Nystrom, FIG Commission 9, United States of America	02-04: Can land administration foster gender equality? Location: MC 4-100 Chair: Rumyana Tonchovska, UNFAO, Italy
	02-05: Evaluating impacts of land tenure interventions Location: MC 5-100 Chair: Malcolm Childress, Global Land Alliance, United States of America	02-06: Indonesia's 'one map' policy: Does it live up to its potential? Location: MC 6-100 Chair: Jill Pike, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America	02-07: Supporting land management by customary authorities Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Stephen Brooks, US Agency for International Development, United States of America	02-08: Remote sensing and automation for property tax assessment Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Amy Rasmussen, International Association of Assessing Officers, United States of America
	02-09: Using cadastral information to value and govern natural capital Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Randall Bluffstone, Portland State University, United States of America	02-10: Balancing rights, development and natural resources protection Location: MC 10-100 Chair: Omoding James Peters Opio, AfDB, Côte d'Ivoire	02-11: Fit for purpose land administration Location: MC C1-100 Chair: Rudolf Staiger, FIG- International Federation of Surveyors, Germany	02-12: Can large investment catalyze agricultural transformation? Location: MC C1-200 Chair: Thomas Jayne, Michigan State University, United States of America
	02-13: Gender aspects of land tenure Location: MC 7-860 Chair: Victoria Stanley, World Bank, United States of America
12:00pm - 2:00pm	Lunch Location: Front Lobby and Preston Lounge		Women's caucus Location: MC 4-100
12:30pm - 2:00pm	00-12: Leveraging geospatial infrastructure to advance tenure security at scale Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Haishan Fu, World Bank, United States of America
2:00pm - 3:30pm	03-01: Building analytical capacity on land in Africa Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Emmanuel Nkurunziza, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Kenya	03-02: New ways of measuring urban extent Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Shlomo Angel, New York University, United States of America	03-03: Low-cost ways to establish cadastral systems Location: MC 2-800 Chair: Andy Wickless, Trimble, Inc., United States of America	03-04: Recognizing women's rights over common resources Location: MC 4-100 Chair: David Bledsoe, Resource Equity, United States of America
	03-05: Land price determinants Location: MC 5-100 Chair: Dieter von Fintel, Stellenbosch University, South Africa	03-06: Land policy to improve agricultural land use Location: MC 6-100 Chair: Wordsworth Odame Larbi, FAO, Ethiopia	03-07: Land policies for smart city development Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Rachelle Alterman, Neaman Institue for National Policy Research, Technion, Israel	03-08: Making property tax systems transparent and equitable Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Ronald Worth, International Association of Assessing Officers, United States of America
	03-09: Linking tenure to planning in forest land Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Anne Larson, CIFOR, Peru	03-10: Can participatory land use planning help secure tenure? Location: MC 10-100 Chair: Christopher Mulenga, University of Lusaka, Zambia	03-11: Interoperability of land data: Conceptual issues Location: MC C1-100 Chair: Jacob Vos, Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The	03-12: Can large farms attract local growth? Location: MC C1-200 Chair: Derick Bowen, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America
	03-13: Drawing policy advice from land data analysis Location: MC 7-860 Chair: Hamady Diop, NEPAD, South Africa
3:30pm - 3:45pm	Coffee Break Location: Front Lobby
3:45pm - 5:15pm	04-01: Scaling-up land programs - African experiences and global solutions Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Michael Roth, World Bank, United States of America Translation English - French	04-02: Registry interoperability and data protection Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Nicolás Nogueroles, IPRA-CINDER (International Property Registries Association), Spain	04-03: Interoperability of spatial data: Examples and regulatory framework Location: MC 2-800 Chair: Gitanjali Swamy, IoTask, India	04-04: Legal and normative aspects of making law gender sensitive Location: MC 4-100 Chair: Jolyne Sanjak, Tetratech, United States of America
	04-05: Assessing impact of Infrastructure investments Location: MC 5-100 Chair: Innocent Matshe, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya	04-06: Kenya's land policy reforms: Did they deliver? Location: MC 6-100 Chair: John Bugri, KNUST, Ghana	04-07: Managing sprawl: From data to policies Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Neeraj Baruah, Vivid Economics, United Kingdom	04-08: Implementing urban land value capture Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Riel Franzsen, University of Pretoria, South Africa
	04-09: Approaches towards sustainable land use management Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Kim Thompson, USAID, United States of America	04-10: Addressing the challenges of pastoral tenure Location: MC 10-100 Chair: Stephanie Burgos, Oxfam America, United States of America	04-11: Are PPPs the future of land administration? Location: MC C1-100 Chair: Jacob Zevenbergen, University of Twente, Netherlands, The	04-12: Gender impacts of large-scale investment Location: MC C1-200 Chair: Kerstin Nolte, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
	04-13: Land rights regularization and common property resources Location: MC 7-860 Chair: David Ameyaw, International Center for Evaluation and Development, Kenya
5:30pm - 8:00pm	OAS: Inter-American Network on Cadastre and Property Registry: innovation to improve land governance in Latin America (followed by a cocktail reception) Location: Organization of American States (OAS) - 1889 F St. NW Washington DC Public: By invitation only (Registered participants for the land and Poverty Conference from the LATAM region) Language: Spanish only Deadline to RSVP: Tuesday March 19, 2019 - RSVP		Red Interamericana de Catastro y Registro de la Propiedad: Innovación para mejorar la gobernanza de la tierra en América Latina (seguido por un coctel de recepción) Location: Organization of American States (OAS) - 1889 F St. NW Washington DC Público: Por invitación (participantes registrados en la conferencia de tierras y pobreza del Banco Mundial) Lenguaje: Español Fecha límite para reservar participación: martes 19 de marzo del 2019 – RSVP

Date: Wednesday, 27/Mar/2019
8:00am - 6:00pm	Posters on display all day; Presenters available 12-2PM and 5.30-6 PM or contact by email Location: MC Atrium
8:30am - 10:00am	05-01: Private sector roles in Latin America's land administration Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Ivonne Astrid Moreno Horta, WORLD BANK, Colombia	05-02: Implementing land readjustment Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Patrick Lamson-Hall, New York University Marron Institute, United States of America	05-03: Towards the registry of the future Location: MC 2-800 Chair: Nicolás Nogueroles, IPRA-CINDER (International Property Registries Association), Spain	05-04: Land tenure for sustainable rangeland management Location: MC 4-100 Chair: Liz Alden Wily, independent, Kenya
	05-05: Impact of informal tenure upgrading Location: MC 5-100 Chair: Remi Jedwab, George Washington University, United States of America	05-06: Institutionalizing bottom-up monitoring Location: MC 6-100 Chair: Rueben Lifuka, Transparency International, Germany	05-07: Improving access to land for urban expansion Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Rebecca Leshinsky, RMIT University, Australia	05-08: New ways of registering customary land Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Janet L. Banda SC., Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi
	05-09: Implementing REDD in practice Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Peter Veit, World Resources Institute, United States of America	05-10: Overlapping jurisdictions at the peri-urban fringe Location: MC 10-100 Chair: Shikha Srivastava, Tata Trusts, India	05-11: Implementing NSDI: From guidelines to practice Location: MC C1-100 Chair: Kathrine Kelm, World Bank, United States of America	05-12: Protecting land rights in the course of land acquisition Location: MC C1-200 Chair: Joan Kagwanja, UNECA, Ethiopia
	05-13: Providing policy advice through applied research Location: MC 7-860 Chair: Ammar Alhamadi, Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates	05-14: Research on land markets in Ukraine Location: MC 6-860 Chair: Oleg Nivievskyi, Kyiv Economic Institute/ Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine VC/webex
10:00am - 10:30am	Coffee Break Location: Front Lobby
10:30am - 12:00pm	06-01: Simplified planning for systematic tenure regularization Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Anne Odic, AFD, France	06-02: Emerging technologies, data ownership & privacy Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Josephus van Erp, Maastricht University, Netherlands, The VC	06-03: How to realize the potential of blockchain for land administration? Location: MC 2-800 Chair: John Reynolds, BLOCKCHAIN DIGITAL, United Kingdom	06-04: Gender and land policy Location: MC 4-100 Chair: Renee Giovarelli, Resource Equity, United States of America
	06-05: Land markets at the rural-urban fringe Location: MC 5-100 Chair: Songqing Jin, Michigan State Univ./Zhejiang Univ., China, People's Republic of	06-06: National Land Policy Documents: Potential & Challenges Location: MC 6-100 Chair: Estherine Lisinge Fotabong, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), South Africa	06-07: Regulations for urban planning Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Peter Mwangi, Walker Kontos, Kenya	06-08: Providing low-cost housing Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Rajan Samuel, Habitat for Humanity India, India
	06-09: Enhancing tenure security for forest land Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Jintao Xu, Peking University, China, People's Republic of	06-10: Ensuring use of public land for public good Location: MC 10-100 Chair: Jorge Espinoza, GIZ, Brazil	06-11: Land administration: Cases from Asia Location: MC C1-100 Chair: Suzuka Sato, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan	06-12: Dealing with the impacts of failed land acquisition Location: MC C1-200 Chair: Jann Lay, GIGA - Germany, Germany
	06-13: Providing policy advice through applied research Location: MC 7-860 Chair: Anna Locke, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom	06-14: Mapping land rights for better socio-economic outcomes Location: MC 6-860 Chair: Jorge Munoz, World Bank, United States of America
12:00pm - 2:00pm	Lunch Location: Front Lobby and Preston Lounge		Women's caucus Location: MC 4-100
12:30pm - 2:00pm	00-13: New initiatives in urban land policy Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Sameh Naguib Wahba, World Bank, United States of America		Discussing on the Latin-American land administration ecosystem (light lunch, in Spanish only) Location: MC 13-121 Lounge Chair: Mike Mora, Organization of American States, United States of America In this networking session participants will have an opportunity to hear an introductory lighting talk aimed at sparking informal conversations among the attendees about the state of the Latin-American land administration ecosystem. Also, participants will have the opportunity to contribute with their ideas to strengthen this ecosystem by adding thoughts to a wall dedicated to generate a narrative for the strengthening of the ecosystem in areas of regulation, technologies and institutional arrangements.
2:00pm - 3:30pm	07-01: Land governance in the Arab states Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Wael Zakout, World Bank, United States of America	07-02: Farm size & productivity in Africa Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Keith Fuglie, USAID, United States of America	07-03: Applications of earth observation in rural areas Location: MC 2-800 Chair: Thomas Esch, DLR, Germany	07-04: Beyond joint titling: Making land institutions gender-sensitive Location: MC 4-100 Chair: Bina Agarwal, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
	07-05: Emerging technologies, data ownership & privacy Location: MC 5-100 Chair: Josephus van Erp, Maastricht University, Netherlands, The WEBEX	07-06: Challenges of redistributive land reform Location: MC 6-100 Chair: Arno Schaefer, European Commission, Belgium	07-07: How to regulate expropriation for large-scale investments? Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Leon Verstappen, University of Groningen, Netherlands, The	07-08: Improving housing delivery Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Shishir Ranjan Dash, Tata Trusts, India
	07-09: Enhancing tenure security for forest land Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Dietmar Stoian, ICRAF, France	07-10: Using public lands as a catalyst for equitable development Location: MC 10-100 Chair: Devie Chilonga, Mnistry of Lands, housing and urban development, Malawi	07-11: Land administration: Cases from South America Location: MC C1-100 Chair: Maria Elena Garcia Flores, CINDER, Mexico	07-12: Enforcing adherence to standards for large land-based investment Location: MC C1-200 Chair: Chris Jochnick, Landesa, United States of America
	07-13: Linking global issue to local reality on the commons Location: MC 7-860 Chair: Gerardo Segura Warnholtz, World Bank, United States of America	07-14: Demarcation of indigenous lands Location: MC 6-860 Chair: Raelene Webb, Murray Chambers, Australia
3:30pm - 3:45pm	Coffee Break Location: Front Lobby
3:45pm - 5:15pm	08-01: Land records completion and modernization in Asia Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Mika-Petteri Törhönen, The World Bank, United States of America	08-02: Strengthening professional ethics in the land sector Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Maurice Barbieri, CLGE (Council of European Geodetic Surveyors), Switzerland	08-03: Applications of earth observation to assess urban service delivery Location: MC 2-800 Chair: Moses Musinguzi, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda	08-04: Ways to secure women's tenure in practice Location: MC 4-100 Chair: Janet Edeme, African Union Commission, Ethiopia
	08-05: Urban land research, land assembly and land markets in China Location: MC 5-100 Chair: Fang Xia, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, People's Republic of	08-06: The political economy of land tenure reform Location: MC 6-100 Chair: Caleb Stevens, USAID, United States of America	08-07: Can building regulations be designed properly? Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Richard Grover, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom	08-08: Land tenure insecurity and land-related investment Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Michael Kirk, University of Marburg, Germany
	08-09: Expanding land markets and investments Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Cornelis de Zeeuw, Kadaster, Netherlands, The	08-10: Community empowerment to ensure a fair investor negotiations Location: MC 10-100 Chair: Lorenzo Cotula, IIED, United Kingdom WEBEX	08-11: Land administration: Cases from Eastern Europe Location: MC C1-100 Chair: Mihai Taus, Romanian Land Registry Association, Romania	08-12: Improving decision-making on common lands Location: MC C1-200 Chair: Steven Lawry, Center for International Forestry Research, United States of America
	08-13: Land and post-conflict: the case of Colombia Location: MC 7-860 Chair: Mike Mora, Organization of American States, United States of America	08-14: Recognizing indigenous rights Location: MC 6-860 Chair: Hubert M. G. Ouedraogo, DID international, Burkina Faso
5:45pm - 7:15pm	Spec-21: Launch of publication: “Securing Forest Tenure Rights for Rural Development: An Analytical Framework”. Location: MC 2-800 By invitation only. Please contact: Gsegura@worldbank.org - see also https://www.profor.info/content/securing-forest-tenure-rights-rural-development-analytical-framework-0
7:00pm	Poster Board 02-01 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 02-02 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 02-03 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 02-04 Location: MC Atrium
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	Poster Board 02-09 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 02-10 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 02-11 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 02-12 Location: MC Atrium
	Poster Board 02-13 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 02-14 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 02-15 Location: MC Atrium	Poster Board 02-16 Location: MC Atrium

Date: Thursday, 28/Mar/2019
8:30am - 10:00am	09-01: Redistributive land reform in the 21st century Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Michael Taylor, International Land Coalition, Italy	09-02: Land tenure security and deforestation Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Michael Toman, World Bank, United States of America	09-03: Potential and pitfalls of using drone imagery Location: MC 2-800 Chair: Edward Anderson, World Bank group, Tanzania	09-04: Harnessing benefits from urban planning Location: MC 4-100 Chair: Eric Heikkila, University of Southern California, United States of America
	09-05: SDGs on land: Methodology and reporting Location: MC 5-100 Chair: Sydney Gourlay, World Bank, United States of America VC/ webex	09-06: Monitoring global commitments on land tenure Location: MC 6-100 Chair: Astrid Jakobs de Padua, World Bank, United States of America	09-07: Building crowd-sourced data into formal systems Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Achilles Kallergis, New York University, United States of America	09-08: Evaluating impacts of tenure interventions Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Heather Huntington, DevLab@Duke, United States of America
	09-09: Bottom-up approaches: A key to land use planning Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Klaus Ackermann, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany	09-10: Land administration: Cases from Africa Location: MC 10-100 Chair: Chris Penrose Buckley, DFID, United Kingdom	09-11: Land as instrument for post-conflict peacebuilding Location: MC C1-100 Chair: David F. Varela, Global Land Alliance, Colombia	09-12: How can large investors be held accountable? Location: MC C1-200 Chair: Samuel Kimeu, Transparency International Kenya, Kenya
10:00am - 10:30am	Coffee Break Location: Front Lobby
10:30am - 12:00pm	10-01: Indigenous tenure for resilience and reconciliation Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Enrique Pantoja, World Bank, United States of America	10-02: How to achieve the SDG goals and global commitments on land? Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Clarissa Augustinus, Independent, Ireland	10-03: Potential and pitfalls of using drone imagery Location: MC 2-800 Chair: Tobias Landmann, Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH, Germany	10-04: Harnessing the scope for incremental tenure upgrading Location: MC 4-100 Chair: Abdu Muwonge, World Bank, Kenya
	10-05: The role of land in structural transformation Location: MC 5-100 Chair: Jonathan Conning, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, United States of America	10-06: Data to determine compensation for land acquisition Location: MC 6-100 Chair: James Kavanagh, RICS, United Kingdom	10-07: New aspects of land reform in Africa Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Michael Becker, GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Kosovo	10-08: Evaluating impacts of tenure interventions Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Andreas Lange, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany
	10-09: Capacity building: Lessons from experience Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Charl-Thom Hilgardt Bayer, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia	10-10: Land administration: Cases from Africa Location: MC 10-100 Chair: Dominik Wellmann, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany	10-11: Remote sensing and deep learning for agricultural productivity Location: MC C1-100 Chair: Felix Rembold, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy	10-12: Large investments: Protecting human rights & environment Location: MC C1-200 Chair: Ward Anseeuw, International Land Coalition, Italy
	10-13: Legal pluralism and tenure reforms: Has there been progress? Location: MC 7-860 Chair: Richard Gaynor, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America
12:00pm - 2:00pm	Lunch Location: Front Lobby and Preston Lounge		Women's caucus Location: MC 4-100
12:30pm - 2:00pm	00-15: Climate change, forest landscape restoration and tenure Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Robert Nasi, CIFOR, Indonesia Mitigation the effects of climate change requires catalyzing ecological restoration from below and above. This session discusses public and private initiatives and incentives around forest landscapes, while focussing on lessons learned from implementing law and policy towards strengthening community rights to land and forests. VC
2:00pm - 3:30pm	11-01: Round table: Innovative land policies for sustainable development Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Klaus Deininger, World Bank, United States of America	11-02: Political economy of tenure change Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Jonathan Conning, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, United States of America	11-03: Improving interoperability of registries & open data access Location: MC 2-800 Chair: Connie Fair, Land Title & Survey Authority of British Columbia, Canada	11-04: Demand for and impacts of land tenure regularization Location: MC 4-100 Chair: Jennifer Lisher, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America
	11-05: Land and water governance Location: MC 5-100 Chair: Marie-Laure Lajaunie, World Bank, United States of America	11-06: Improving resilience via better land data Location: MC 6-100 Chair: Luis Triveno, World Bank, United States of America	11-07: Using data and planning to improve urban resilience Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Allan Cain, Development Workshop, Angola	11-08: Improving access to land for the youth Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Violet Shivutse, HUAIROU COMMISSION, Kenya
	11-09: Promising initiatives to build capacity Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Diane Dumashie, International Federation of Surveyors - FIG, United Kingdom	11-10: Land administration: Cases from Africa Location: MC 10-100 Chair: Anthony Burns, Land Equity International, Australia	11-11: Resolving dispute over land Location: MC C1-100 Chair: Jonathan Lindsay, World Bank, United States of America	11-12: Gathering the data needed to assess large farm productivity Location: MC C1-200 Chair: Daniel Ayalew Ali, World Bank, United States of America
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Coffee Break Location: Front Lobby
4:00pm - 5:00pm	Closing Plenary Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Albert Zeufack, World Bank, United States of America

Date: Friday, 29/Mar/2019
8:55am - 4:00pm	FT-1: Field Trip I: Commissioner of Revenue’s office in Stafford County (Virginia, USA Location: Stafford county, Virginia You will gain a first-person perspective of how Stafford County, Virginia, a local U.S. county, administers land, values properties, and ensures fair and equitable taxation. Join us for a short trip south of Washington, D.C. to the peri-urban community of Stafford, for a briefing co-hosted by Scott Mayausky, Commissioner of Revenue for Stafford County, and also from the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO). Lunch, transportation, and a tour of the George Washington’s boyhood home is included in the $29 registration fee. Pre-registration required via: www.iaao.org/wbc19
8:59am - 12:30pm	Consultation DRC: Consultation: Lessons learned on preventing and addressing land-related conflict in East DRC Location: MC 13-121 By invitation only: please contact: Hans.Raadschilders@minbuza.nl Translation French-English
9:00am - 10:30am	12-01: Using drones for land use mapping and risk assessment Location: MC C1-100	12-02: Analyzing and improving land conflict resolution mechanisms - sharing experiences from the GIZ Global Program Responsble Land Policy Location: MC C1-200	12-03: Scaling up municipal spatial data infrastructure: regulatory innovations and technology solutions Location: MC 6-100	12-04: Guidelines on resilience and land administration Location: MC 8-100
	12-05: Innovative grassroots women led tools for gender responsive land governance Location: MC 9-100	12-06: National Land Observatories: a tool for transparency, accountability, and informed decision making over land for all Location: MC 10-100	12-07: Analyzing land use change using Google Earth Engine -I- Location: MC 6-860 Chair: Brad Bottoms, New Light Technologies, United States of America	12-08: Working with the Private Sector: bridging the gap between the Public, Private and Civil Society Sectors to catalyze innovation in Land Markets Location: MC 7-860
	12-09: Promoting women’s land rights in land investment in Tanzania - using RIPL engendered guidebooks Location: MC 2-850
9:45am - 12:00pm	FT-II: Field trip II: Washington DC - Infrastructure financing, taxation and urban revitalization of the Wharf/southwest waterfront Location: The Wharf; Washington DC
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee Break Location: Front Lobby
11:00am - 12:30pm	13-01: How land professionals can contribute to making the SDGs a reality Location: MC C1-100	13-02: Using machine learning for property valuation Location: MC C1-200	13-03: Urban Planning Tools: Suitability and Urban Performance. How spatial data is helping cities in making evidence-driven decisions Location: MC 6-100	13-04: "Its4land" - innovative geospatial tools for fit-for-purpose land rights mapping Location: MC 8-100
	13-05: Starting with women: tools for empowerment Location: MC 9-100	13-06: Enabling voices, demanding rights: A guide to gender-sensitive community engagement in large-scale land-based investment in agriculture Location: MC 10-100	13-07: Analyzing land use change using Google Earth Engine -II- Location: MC 6-860 Chair: Brad Bottoms, New Light Technologies, United States of America	13-08: Urban data collection tools and approaches Location: MC 7-860
	13-09: How to conduct impact evaluation of land tenure and governance interventions, from theory to practice Location: MC 2-850
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: Front Lobby
1:30pm - 3:00pm	14-01: Build a blockchain land record register Location: MC C1-100	14-02: The Land Matrix: An open online tool to collect, visualize and provide information about large-scale land acquisitions and to support decentralized land observatories. Location: MC C1-200	14-03: MODELLING intensity of land use for three-dimensional urban activity space Location: MC 6-100	14-04: Practical approaches to implementing and monitoring free, prior and informed consent processes Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Luis Felipe Duchicela, Equitable Origin, United States of America
1:30pm - 3:00pm	14-05: A Women Land Rights scorecard, tool for monitoring implementation of African Union Instruments at country level, A case of eight countries Location: MC 9-100	14-06: The East African community model contract for farmland investments: ensuring responsible investment in land in east africa. Location: MC 10-100	14-08: Women's land rights conceptual framework Location: MC 7-860	14-09: Tackling land corruption risks to achieve the SDGs. Location: MC 2-850

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Conference: 20th Land and Poverty Conference