Conference Agenda
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| Location: Preston Auditorium |
| Date: Monday, 25/Mar/2019 | |
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
00-01: Innovative approaches to land data generation Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Klaus Deininger, World Bank, United States of America Survey Solutions: An open source software to collect socio-economic and spatial data World Bank, United States of America Practical experience with mapping informal farms and houses in Zambia 1: World Bank, Zambia; 2: Central Statistics Office, Zambia; 3: MLNR, Zambia Combining drone imagery, street view, cadastral data and machine learning for urban development World Bank, United States of America Data collaboratives: How data sharing can yield better insights World Bank, United States of America Building capacity to use drone imagery for land administration and management: Opportunities and challenges World Bank group, Tanzania |
| 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 Linking cadastral data & imagery to assess cultivation status of large land acquisitions: Examples from Ethiopia and Malawi New Light Technologies, United States of America Identifying changes in housing investments using satellite imagery World Bank, United States of America Using census maps to put chiefs' areas on the map: Evidence from Malawi 1: Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development, Malawi; 2: RCMRD, Kenya Using the SDG module to assess to documents, tenure insecurity, and demand for title 1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: MLNR, ZambiaCSO, Zambia; 3: CSO, zambia |
| 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 Land inequality and development: Potential lessons for Africa from East Asia’s experience Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom |
| 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 What Governments can do to harness the potential of big data NYU, United States of America Benefits from open access to cadastral data: Lessons from Uruguay DNC, Uruguay Technology for Simplification and Modernisation of the Common agricultural Policy Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm |
00-10: Conference opening Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Simeon Djankov, World Bank, United States of America Opening remarks World Bank, United States of America Digital technologies and land governance in Africa AUDA-NEPAD, South Africa Land policies to allow effective urban service delivery and expansion: Ethiopia’s experience Ministry of Urban Development and Construction, Ethiopia Why regularizing informal properties in Chile is a priority Ministry of National Assets, Chile |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
00-11: Opening keynote Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Simeon Djankov, World Bank, United States of America Keynote: Linking satellite and administrative data for land economics research and practice Tufts University, United States of America Building on new data for evidence-based land policy in Africa African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya |
| Date: Tuesday, 26/Mar/2019 | |
| 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 Opening remarks African Union Commission, Ethiopia The role of land governance in achieving Agenda 2063 and SDGs AUDA-NEPAD, South Africa Consolidating transparent land administration and land revenue generation in Uganda Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda The way forward on land reform in Namibia: lessons from the 2nd National Land Conference Ministry of Land Reform, Namibia Strengthening land governance in Mali Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, Mali |
| 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 Using building footprint data to inform planning & monitor compliance with land use regulations: The case of Kigali & Musanze Independent consultant, Rwanda Establishing an interoperable land information system in Bamako for urban development 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 Rwanda Natural Resources Authority, Rwanda Tenure insecurity and demand for land documents in Zambia: Evidence from a nation-wide household survey 1: Central Statisticsl Office, Zambia; 2: World Bank, United States of America |
| 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 Leveraging geospatial infrastructure to advance tenure security at scale ESRI, 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 NEPAD support to policy analysis capacity building in Africa NEPAD, South Africa Policy relevant research: Building on AERC's PhD course to strengthen analytical capacity on land governance in Africa African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya Harnessing the IT revolution for African land policies World Bank, United States of America Expanding the frontier for research on land in Africa African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya |
| 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 Introductory remarks African Union Commission, Ethiopia Setting the scene Consultant, United States of America Discussant UNECA, Ethiopia Discussant Agence Foncière Rurale, AFOR, Côte d'Ivoire Discussant Ministry in charge of Land Affairs, Madagascar Discussant Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia Discussant Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Kenya Closing remarks World Bank, United States of America Closing remarks Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany |
| Date: Wednesday, 27/Mar/2019 | |
| 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 Colombia: The private sector’s roles in land tenure formalization in post-conflict areas Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Colombia Modernizing land information systems in Panama Ministry of the presidency, Panama Honduras: improving registry and cadastral service delivery through public and private outsourcing Instituto de la Propiedad, Honduras Contracting and direct implementation in systematic land formalization. 25 years of experience in Peru. Global Land Alliance, Peru |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
06-01: Simplified planning for systematic tenure regularization Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Anne Odic, AFD, France Opportunities and challenges of planning to provide tenure security to existing dwellers and ensure effective service delivery in the course of urban expansion Ministry of Land and Physical Planning, Kenya Applying Simplified planning to facilitate title issuance in Lusaka City Hall Lusaka, Zambia Scope for simplifying planning procedures in Zimbabwe Harare City Municipality, Zimbabwe Addressing physical urban planning to speed up tenure regularization Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Kenya |
| 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 Expanding urban land access and housing in Ethiopia Ministry of Urban Development and Construction, Ethiopia Land as a key enabler for delivering affordable housing in Kenya Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development ‘Chile Propietario’ program to regularize informal properties Ministry of National Assets, Chile |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
07-01: Land governance in the Arab states Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Wael Zakout, World Bank, United States of America Setting the scene World Bank, United States of America Discussant Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates Discussant Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia Discussant Ministry of Finance, Lebanon (Lebanese Republic) Discussant darfur land commission, Sudan Discussant Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, NELGA NA Coordinator, Morocco Discussant Land & Water Settlement Commission, Palestinian Territories Discussant Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany Discussant DFID, United Kingdom Conclusions and next steps 1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: UN Habitat, Kenya |
| 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 Indonesia: systematic land regularization and electronic land administration The Indonesia Ministry of Spatial Planning and Agrarian Reform, Indonesia Land policy and administration reform in Nepal Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Nepal Uzbekistan real property register and cadastre modernization Goskomzemgeodezkadastr, Uzbekistan Property registration in India – Delhi perspective Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India Discussant Punjab Land Records Authority, Government of Punjab, Pakistan Discussant The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 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 From fragmentation and elite capture to building new bridges in partnership: repurposing agrarian reform in South Africa in a new era AFRA, South Africa Land reform policy in Indonesia Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Management/National Land Agency, Indonesia Land reform debate in Indonesia Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA), Indonesia Land reform policy in Colombia Colombia Rural, Colombia Land reform policy in Colombia Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Colombia |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
10-01: Indigenous tenure for resilience and reconciliation Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Enrique Pantoja, World Bank, United States of America Modelling land-use change for indigenous socio-economic development: Curve Lake First Nation, Canada 1: Natural Resources Canada; 2: University of Waterloo, Canada Innovations in Indigenous land tenure in Canada: Reconciliation as the catalyst Natural Resources Canada, Canada Exploring pluralism: building resilience and respect Murray Chambers, Australia First nations' post-counter map praxis Royal Roads University, Canada |
| 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 Scramble for land rights: reducing inequity between communities and companies World Resources Institute, United States of America Madagascar experience with role of tenure in forest restoration Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Madagascar Role of tenure in protecting and restoring the Amazon forests Imazon, Brazil Lessons from tenure and gender research for restoration CIFOR, Peru Discussant Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany Discussant World Wide Fund for Nature International (WWF International), Singapore |
| 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 The importance of land reform for agricultural transformation Ministry of State Property, Surveys and Land Tenure, Cameroon Enhancing land tenure security and functioning of land markets in Zambia Ministry of Local Government, Zambia Towards secure land rights for all in Uganda: Remaining challenges and ways of monitoring progress Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda Key challenges to advancing land tenure security in Malawi Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Closing Plenary Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Albert Zeufack, World Bank, United States of America Conference wrap-up World Bank, United States of America Lessons from the conference for land policy in Africa Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi Takeaways on ways for strengthening land governance in LAC IRIB, Brazil Lessons for the land administration profession FIG- International Federation of Surveyors, Germany Next frontiers for research on land policy and implementation Peking University, China, People's Republic of Opportunities for leveraging the private sector IFC, United States of America Closing remarks World Bank, United States of America |