Localizing the SDGs

Land and Poverty Conference 2017: Responsible Land Governance—Towards an Evidence-Based Approach

20 Mar - 24 Mar, Washington DC, United States of America 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Organized by World Bank
Posted by Fabienne Perucca, UN-Habitat

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The Land and Poverty conference will present the latest research and practice on the diversity of reforms, interventions, and innovations in the land sector around the world. The 2017 conference theme will be: Responsible Land Governance: Towards an Evidence-Based Approach. The focus is on the role of data and evidence for realizing land policy reform, identify strategies for working at scale and monitoring achievements.

The conference has become one of the largest international events on land governance, attracting over 1,200 participants from governments, academics, civil society, and the private sector.

Conference Agenda: https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2017/sessions.php

2017 Conference themes

Research on land governance and rigorous impact evaluations
- Academic research on governance of land and natural resource tenure systems and institutions
- Impact on sustainable development and equity
- Results of rigorous impact evaluations of “land interventions” using counterfactual; methodological considerations.
Delivering land administration services at scale
- Cost effective and fast expansion of coverage
- Reliability, transparency and monitoring performance
- Linking land information systems to tax, courts, land use and financial institutions
- Business models for service delivery
- Addressing capacity gaps, fit-for-purpose
Harnessing geospatial data, cloud platforms, and other data technologies
- Policy application automated data analysis
- Combining administrative data, statistics and geospatial data
- Open data and open source
- Spatial data infrastructure and data access
- Standards and interoperability, block chains, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), mobile phones and participatory mapping
Land and urbanization
- Tenure dimension of competitive cities and agglomeration
- Land pooling and land readjustment
- Tenure regularization, valuation and taxation
- land value capture, PPP (Public Private Partnerships) and benefit sharing
Land for infrastructure, investment, disaster risk reduction
- Eminent domain, expropriation and compensation
- Safeguards, mediation and grievances
- Legacy issues, guidelines for responsible large-scale and land-based investments
- ESG (Environmental Social Governance), standards, commodity round tables and (territorial) Certification
- Benefit sharing, inclusive business models and monitoring compliance
Securing land rights for equity, sustainability, and resilience
- Institutions for managing the commons and customary land, forests and natural resources
- Pastoralism, gender, youth
- Indigenous peoples’ tenure systems
- Combatting climate change

http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2016/08/22/land-and-poverty-conference-2017-responsible-land-governance-towards-an-evidence-based-approach

2017-03-20 9:00 AM 2017-03-24 5:00 PM Europe/London Land and Poverty Conference 2017: Responsible Land Governance—Towards an Evidence-Based Approach The Land and Poverty conference will present the latest research and practice on the diversity of reforms, interventions, and innovations in the land sector around the world. The 2017 conference theme will be: Responsible Land Governance: Towards an Evidence-Based Approach. The focus is on the role of data and evidence for realizing land policy reform, identify strategies for working at scale and monitoring achievements. The conference has become one of the largest international events on land governance, attracting over 1,200 participants from governments, academics, civil society, and the private sector. Conference Agenda: https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2017/sessions.php 2017 Conference themes Research on land governance and rigorous impact evaluations Academic research on governance of land and natural resource tenure systems and institutions Impact on sustainable development and equity Results of rigorous impact evaluations of “land interventions” using counterfactual; methodological considerations. Delivering land administration services at scale Cost effective and fast expansion of coverage Reliability, transparency and monitoring performance Linking land information systems to tax, courts, land use and financial institutions Business models for service delivery Addressing capacity gaps, fit-for-purpose Harnessing geospatial data, cloud platforms, and other data technologies Policy application automated data analysis Combining administrative data, statistics and geospatial data Open data and open source Spatial data infrastructure and data access Standards and interoperability, block chains, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), mobile phones and participatory mapping Land and urbanization Tenure dimension of competitive cities and agglomeration Land pooling and land readjustment Tenure regularization, valuation and taxation land value capture, PPP (Public Private Partnerships) and benefit sharing Land for infrastructure, investment, disaster risk reduction Eminent domain, expropriation and compensation Safeguards, mediation and grievances Legacy issues, guidelines for responsible large-scale and land-based investments ESG (Environmental Social Governance), standards, commodity round tables and (territorial) Certification Benefit sharing, inclusive business models and monitoring compliance Securing land rights for equity, sustainability, and resilience Institutions for managing the commons and customary land, forests and natural resources Pastoralism, gender, youth Indigenous peoples’ tenure systems Combatting climate change Washington DC,United States of America World Bank