Conference Agenda

Survey Solutions: An open source software to collect socio-economic and spatial data

Sergiy Radyakin, Michael Lokshin

World Bank, United States of America

Practical experience with mapping informal farms and houses in Zambia

Emmanuel Tembo³, Frank Kakungu², Kelvin Chibangula³, Shadreck Mutti¹

¹World Bank, Zambia; ²Central Statistics Office, Zambia; ³MLNR, Zambia

Combining drone imagery, street view, cadastral data and machine learning for urban development

Luis Triveno

World Bank, United States of America

Data collaboratives: How data sharing can yield better insights

Holly Krambeck, Sarah Antos

World Bank, United States of America

Building capacity to use drone imagery for land administration and management: Opportunities and challenges

Edward Anderson

World Bank group, Tanzania

Linking cadastral data & imagery to assess cultivation status of large land acquisitions: Examples from Ethiopia and Malawi

Brad Bottoms

New Light Technologies, United States of America

Identifying changes in housing investments using satellite imagery

Dunstan Matekenya

World Bank, United States of America

Using census maps to put chiefs' areas on the map: Evidence from Malawi

Julius Brian Chawezi Chisi¹, Emmanuel Nkurunziza², Davie Chilonga¹

¹Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development, Malawi; ²RCMRD, Kenya

Using the SDG module to assess to documents, tenure insecurity, and demand for title

Daniel Ayalew Ali¹, Klaus Deininger¹, Emmanuel Tembo², Frank Kakungu³, YuanYuan Yi¹

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²MLNR, ZambiaCSO, Zambia; ³CSO, zambia

Land inequality and development: Potential lessons for Africa from East Asia’s experience

Richard Frank Studwell

Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom

What Governments can do to harness the potential of big data

Julia Lane

NYU, United States of America

Benefits from open access to cadastral data: Lessons from Uruguay

Sylvia Amado

DNC, Uruguay

Technology for Simplification and Modernisation of the Common agricultural Policy

Felix Rembold

Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy

Opening remarks

Kristalina I. Georgieva

World Bank, United States of America

Digital technologies and land governance in Africa

Estherine Lisinge Fotabong

AUDA-NEPAD, South Africa

Land policies to allow effective urban service delivery and expansion: Ethiopia’s experience

H.E. Jantirar Abay Yigzaw

Ministry of Urban Development and Construction, Ethiopia

Why regularizing informal properties in Chile is a priority

Alejandra Bravo Hidalgo

Ministry of National Assets, Chile

Keynote: Linking satellite and administrative data for land economics research and practice

Adam Storeygard

Tufts University, United States of America

Building on new data for evidence-based land policy in Africa

Njuguna Ndung'u

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

Opening remarks

Godfrey Bahiigwa

African Union Commission, Ethiopia

The role of land governance in achieving Agenda 2063 and SDGs

Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki

AUDA-NEPAD, South Africa

Consolidating transparent land administration and land revenue generation in Uganda

Hon. Betty Ongom Amongi

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

The way forward on land reform in Namibia: lessons from the 2nd National Land Conference

Hon. Utoni Nujoma

Ministry of Land Reform, Namibia

Strengthening land governance in Mali

Hon. Mohamed M. Sidibe

Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, Mali

Using building footprint data to inform planning & monitor compliance with land use regulations: The case of Kigali & Musanze

Rhona Nyakulama, Gaspard Nelson Habiyaremye, Jean Claude Ntirenganya

Independent consultant, Rwanda

Establishing an interoperable land information system in Bamako for urban development

Checkine Mamadou Dieffaga

secretariat permanent de la reforme domaniale et fonciere au Mali, Mali

Strategies to ensure sustainability of Rwanda’s registry: Paperless registration of marriage/death, fee reductions, and regulatory change

Nishimwe Marie Grace

Rwanda Natural Resources Authority, Rwanda

Tenure insecurity and demand for land documents in Zambia: Evidence from a nation-wide household survey

Frank Kakungu¹, Daniel Ali², Klaus Deininger², Yuanyuan Yi²

¹Central Statisticsl Office, Zambia; ²World Bank, United States of America

Leveraging geospatial infrastructure to advance tenure security at scale

Jack Dangermond

ESRI, United States of America

NEPAD support to policy analysis capacity building in Africa

Rudo Makunike

NEPAD, South Africa

Policy relevant research: Building on AERC's PhD course to strengthen analytical capacity on land governance in Africa

Innocent Matshe

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

Harnessing the IT revolution for African land policies

Klaus Deininger

World Bank, United States of America

Expanding the frontier for research on land in Africa

Njuguna Ndung'u

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

Introductory remarks

Godfrey Bahiigwa

African Union Commission, Ethiopia

Setting the scene

Michael Roth

Consultant, United States of America

Discussant

Joan Kagwanja

UNECA, Ethiopia

Discussant

David Loue

Agence Foncière Rurale, AFOR, Côte d'Ivoire

Discussant

Danielle Haingonavalona

Ministry in charge of Land Affairs, Madagascar

Discussant

Tatjana Cenova-Mitrevska

Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia

Discussant

Emmanuel Nkurunziza

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

Closing remarks

Jorge Munoz

World Bank, United States of America

Closing remarks

Fritz Jung

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Colombia: The private sector’s roles in land tenure formalization in post-conflict areas

Javier Perez-Burgos

Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Colombia

Modernizing land information systems in Panama

Francisco Artola

Ministry of the presidency, Panama

Honduras: improving registry and cadastral service delivery through public and private outsourcing

Roman Alvarez

Instituto de la Propiedad, Honduras

Contracting and direct implementation in systematic land formalization. 25 years of experience in Peru.

Victor Endo

Global Land Alliance, Peru

Opportunities and challenges of planning to provide tenure security to existing dwellers and ensure effective service delivery in the course of urban expansion

Peris Korir

Ministry of Land and Physical Planning, Kenya

Applying Simplified planning to facilitate title issuance in Lusaka

Muchimba Muvombo, Alex Mwansa

City Hall Lusaka, Zambia

Scope for simplifying planning procedures in Zimbabwe

Hosiah Chisango

Harare City Municipality, Zimbabwe

Addressing physical urban planning to speed up tenure regularization

Emmanuel Nkurunziza

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

Expanding urban land access and housing in Ethiopia

H.E. Jantirar Abay Yigzaw

Ministry of Urban Development and Construction, Ethiopia

Land as a key enabler for delivering affordable housing in Kenya

Charles Mwaura

Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development

‘Chile Propietario’ program to regularize informal properties

Alejandra Bravo Hidalgo

Ministry of National Assets, Chile

Setting the scene

Wael Zakout

World Bank, United States of America

Discussant

Ammar Alhamadi

Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates

Discussant

Muhamad Alrajhi

Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia

Discussant

Georges Maarrawi

Ministry of Finance, Lebanon (Lebanese Republic)

Discussant

Mohamedsalih Baher

darfur land commission, Sudan

Discussant

Moha El-ayachi

Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, NELGA NA Coordinator, Morocco

Discussant

Musa Shkarnh

Land & Water Settlement Commission, Palestinian Territories

Discussant

Fritz Jung

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Discussant

Chris Penrose Buckley

DFID, United Kingdom

Conclusions and next steps

Wael Zakout¹, Oumar Sylla²

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²UN Habitat, Kenya

Indonesia: systematic land regularization and electronic land administration

Embun Sari

The Indonesia Ministry of Spatial Planning and Agrarian Reform, Indonesia

Land policy and administration reform in Nepal

Janak Raj Joshi

Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Nepal

Uzbekistan real property register and cadastre modernization

Maksud Ruzmetov

Goskomzemgeodezkadastr, Uzbekistan

Property registration in India – Delhi perspective

Amlanjyoti Goswami

Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India

Discussant

Faiz Faiz-ul-Hassan

Punjab Land Records Authority, Government of Punjab, Pakistan

Discussant

Serene Ho

The University of Melbourne, Australia

From fragmentation and elite capture to building new bridges in partnership: repurposing agrarian reform in South Africa in a new era

Laurel Oettle

AFRA, South Africa

Land reform policy in Indonesia

Harison Mucodompis

Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Management/National Land Agency, Indonesia

Land reform debate in Indonesia

Dewi Kartika Abdul Hamid

Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA), Indonesia

Land reform policy in Colombia

Margarita Maria Varon Perea

Colombia Rural, Colombia

Land reform policy in Colombia

Javier Perez-Burgos

Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Colombia

Modelling land-use change for indigenous socio-economic development: Curve Lake First Nation, Canada

Robert Fligg^1,2

¹Natural Resources Canada; ²University of Waterloo, Canada

Innovations in Indigenous land tenure in Canada: Reconciliation as the catalyst

Akbarali Karsan, Gavin Lawrence, Robert Fligg, Erin Tompkins, Steven Rogers, Brian Ballantyne

Natural Resources Canada, Canada

Exploring pluralism: building resilience and respect

Raelene Webb

Murray Chambers, Australia

First nations' post-counter map praxis

Francis Cadeau

Royal Roads University, Canada

Scramble for land rights: reducing inequity between communities and companies

Peter Veit

World Resources Institute, United States of America

Madagascar experience with role of tenure in forest restoration

Julien Noel

Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Madagascar

Role of tenure in protecting and restoring the Amazon forests

Brenda Brito do Carmo

Imazon, Brazil

Lessons from tenure and gender research for restoration

Anne Larson

CIFOR, Peru

Discussant

Fritz Jung

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Discussant

Delfin Jr Ganapin

World Wide Fund for Nature International (WWF International), Singapore

The importance of land reform for agricultural transformation

Henri Eyebe Ayissi

Ministry of State Property, Surveys and Land Tenure, Cameroon

Enhancing land tenure security and functioning of land markets in Zambia

H.E. Vincent Mwale

Ministry of Local Government, Zambia

Towards secure land rights for all in Uganda: Remaining challenges and ways of monitoring progress

Dorcas Wagima Okalany

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

Key challenges to advancing land tenure security in Malawi

Janet L. Banda SC.

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi

Conference wrap-up

Albert Zeufack

World Bank, United States of America

Lessons from the conference for land policy in Africa

Janet L. Banda SC.

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi

Takeaways on ways for strengthening land governance in LAC

Ivan Jacopetti do Lago

IRIB, Brazil

Lessons for the land administration profession

Rudolf Staiger

FIG- International Federation of Surveyors, Germany

Next frontiers for research on land policy and implementation

Jintao Xu

Peking University, China, People's Republic of

Opportunities for leveraging the private sector

Issa Faye

IFC, United States of America

Closing remarks

Klaus Deininger

World Bank, United States of America