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Session Overview | |
Location: MC 7-100 |
Date: Tuesday, 26/Mar/2019 | |
8:30am - 10:00am |
01-07: Managing public land for the common good Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Lorenzo Cotula, IIED, United Kingdom Common pool resource access rights and wrongs: Insights from Ghana Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Ghana Spatial planning for land use and protection as an anti-poverty tool in rural areas: case study of innovative approaches on the USAID-funded agriculture and rural development support project Chemonics International Inc. The official biological killing of productive land under the silence of a class of citizens and applause of others: when all contribute in destroying living land!!! 1: Ibn Khaldoun University of Tiaret (Algeria); 2: Abou-Bekr Blekaid University of Tlemcen (Algeria) Improving governance of tenure: Technology as the enabler 1: FAO, Ethiopia; 2: FAO, HQ, Italy |
10:30am - 12:00pm |
02-07: Supporting land management by customary authorities Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Stephen Brooks, US Agency for International Development, United States of America Customary land secretariats in Ghana as change agents in land dispute management Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Ghana Innovative customary land governance in Zambia: experiences, lessons learned and emerging impacts 1: People's Process on Housing & Poverty in Zambia, Zambia; 2: Chamuka Royal Establishment; 3: UN-Habitat/GLTN Improving customary land administration in Ghana- CLSs shows the way Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands, Ghana Making Customary Land Secretariats financially and operationally sustainable from the ground up in Ghana 1: Meridia, Netherlands; 2: Innola, United States of America |
2:00pm - 3:30pm |
03-07: Land policies for smart city development Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Rachelle Alterman, Neaman Institue for National Policy Research, Technion, Israel Experiments of urban land supply and development: India RICS School of Built Environment, India Citizen-centric digital land and asset management in the greenfield city development: case study of Amaravati Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority, India Egovernance initiatives of slum rehabilitation authority, Mumbai Government of Maharashtra, India Imagine and design the legal framework for the cities of the future: the example of Mauritian ‘smart cities’ 1: Ordre des Géomètres-experts, France; 2: Conseil Supérieur du Notariat, France |
3:45pm - 5:15pm |
04-07: Managing sprawl: From data to policies Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Neeraj Baruah, Vivid Economics, United Kingdom Anatomy of Density New York University, United States of America Measuring urban economic density The London School of Economics, United Kingdom Master scheme for the simplification and digital transformation of urban land management 1: IGN FI, France; 2: Ministry of Construction, Housing and Urban Planning (MCLAU), Ivory Coast The National Urban Policy as a Framework for managing Urban expansion and land use change in Malawi Mnistry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi |
Date: Wednesday, 27/Mar/2019 | |
8:30am - 10:00am |
05-07: Improving access to land for urban expansion Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Rebecca Leshinsky, RMIT University, Australia Urban planning orientation tools implementation in Bamako District University of Law and Political Science of Bamako, Mali Urban planning and land shortcoming in Morocco: Aspects of injustice and perspectives 1: National Institute of Urban Planning, Morocco; 2: University Qadi ayyad, Morocco; 3: Institute of agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, Morocco; 4: National Council of Licensed Surveyors, Morocco Urban planning and land issues in the city of Antananarivo Ministry of Regional Development, Building, Housing and Public Works - Madagascar Assessing suitability and acceptability of development plans and town planning schemes in small and medium town: a case of Gujarat CEPT University, India |
10:30am - 12:00pm |
06-07: Regulations for urban planning Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Peter Mwangi, Walker Kontos, Kenya Spatial planning, urban expansion and land use conversion: a study on urban form of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam Exploring options for leaseholds in the Mukuru special planning area 1: Cardiff University, United Kingdom; 2: Akiba Mashinani Trust, Kenya; 3: Katiba Institute, Nairobi Aligning land use policies to community vision in regulating land beyond urban: an initiative in Odisha, India Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, India Spatial Planning as an instrument for the sustainability of investment and efficient provision of services - Comayagua Case 1: Property Institute, Honduras; 2: World Bank, United Stated; 3: Comayagua, Honduras |
2:00pm - 3:30pm |
07-07: How to regulate expropriation for large-scale investments? Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Leon Verstappen, University of Groningen, Netherlands, The Drawing insights from a global comparison of legal safeguards for expropriation World Bank, United States of America Acquiring land compulsorily at any cost? Policy recommendations for improved resettlement outcomes. 1: Ellen De Keyser, Belgium; 2: Consultant Surveyors and Planners, Uganda Assessment of community involvement and compensation money utilization in Ethiopia: Case studies from Bahir Dar and DebreMarkosPeri-urban areas 1: Debre Markos University, Ethiopia; 2: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria The question of compensation in the large-scale land acquisition and redistribution in Southern Africa Parliament of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe |
3:45pm - 5:15pm |
08-07: Can building regulations be designed properly? Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Richard Grover, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom Process of buildings legalization in Republic of Macedonia from the perspective of the real estate cadastre Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Guidelines for formalization of informal constructions 1: FIG International Federation of Surveyors, Greece; 2: FIG, United States of America; 3: UNECE WPLA, The Netherlands Between informal and illegal: comparative analysis of non-compliance with planning and building laws Neaman Institue for National Policy Research, Technion, Israel Modernizing planning and development regulations in the Gaza Strip, Palestine 1: UN-Habitat, Palestinian Territories; 2: Palestinian Housing Council, Palestinian Territories |
Date: Thursday, 28/Mar/2019 | |
8:30am - 10:00am |
09-07: Building crowd-sourced data into formal systems Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Achilles Kallergis, New York University, United States of America Is it possible to collect low-cost household data on slum conditions? Evidence from slum dwellers enumerations New York University, United States of America Evidence-based community-driven mapping: Catalyzing city planning and service provision in Muntinlupa and other cities 1: Technical Assistance Movement for People and Environment Inc. (TAMPEI), Philippines; 2: Philippine Action for Community-led Shelter Initiatives Inc. (PACSII), Philippines; 3: Homeless People's Federation Philippines Inc. (HPFPI), Philippines; 4: Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), Kenya “Information is power only if used “-Improving Tenure security in informal settlements using participatory data collection: The case of Informal settlements in Gobabis Namibia Namibia University of Science and Technology Count me in: the case of improving tenure security of slum dwellers in peri-urban Lusaka 1: Lusaka City Council, Zambia; 2: UN Habitat, Kenya; 3: UN Habitat, Zambia |
10:30am - 12:00pm |
10-07: New aspects of land reform in Africa Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Michael Becker, GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Kosovo Using remote-sensed data and machine learning to measure the impact of Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform Programme on crop cultivation and vegetation quality 1: Stellenbosch University, South Africa; 2: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany Land reform policy-induced access to agricultural land and nutritional outcomes in Zimbabwe University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Building a National Spatial Data Infrastructure one step at a time- the case for Zambia Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Zambia Assessing communal land use management related policy /legislative setting and applications in Bir-Temicha watershed, upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia GiZ, Africa Union, Ethiopia |
2:00pm - 3:30pm |
11-07: Using data and planning to improve urban resilience Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Allan Cain, Development Workshop, Angola Cities and good urban land management practice as a catalyst for climate change adaptation in developing countries: case of Blantyre city, Malawi Blantyre City Council, Malawi Developing voluntary gender responsive relocation policy guidelines to support sustainable urban development 1: Habitat for Humanity International, United States of America; 2: University of East London |