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
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
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
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