Land Governance and the MDG's:
Responding to New Challenges Session Schedule Monday, March 9, 2009 | 8:30 - 9:30 AM | Registration and Coffee
H Auditorium | | 9:30 - 10:30 AM | Keynotes
HÂ Auditorium | | 10:30 -Â 12:00 PM | Country Experiences
HÂ Auditorium | | 12:00 -Â 13:00 PM | Â Â Â Lunch
H Auditorium | |  | Thematic Session Rooms   | |  | MC 13-121 | MC10-100 | MC 2-800 | | 13:00 - 14:30 PM | GOV1 | SYS1 | MKT1 | | 14:30 - 15:00 PM | Coffee Break
Thematic Session Rooms | | 15:00 - 16:30 PM | GOV2 | MKT2 | SYS2 | | Â 16:30 -Â 17:00 PM | Coffee Break
Thematic Session Rooms | | 17:00 - 18:30Â PM | Â GOV3 | MKT3 | TNR1 | | 19:00 - 20:30 PM | Â Reception
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MC 13-121 | | 8:30 -Â 9:30 AM | Introduction to STDM | | 9:30 - 11:00 AM | Contributions from key experts | | 11:00 - 14:00 PM | Lunch | | 14:00 - 15:15 PM | Opening & keynote address | | 15:15 -Â 15:35Â PM | Coffee Break | | 15:35 -Â 17:00 PM | Panel discussion &closing remarks |
      PROGRAM NB: Due to last-minute changes to the program, the Program is available for download.
 Monday, March 9, 2009 9:30 - 10:30 AM | Room | Session | |  H Aud | OPENING SESSION | | Chair: H. Schafer, Director, SDN, World Bank | |
Opening remarks | | Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â K. Sierra, Vice President SDN, World Bank | | Keynotes | | Â Â Â Â Â Â | Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Her Excellency E. Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia
         Professor S. Enemark, President, International Federation of Surveyors |
10:30 - 11:45 AM | Room | Session | |  H Aud | Country experiences | | Chair: M. Cackler, Acting Director, ARD, World Bank | |  |  C. Dauda, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Government of Ghana
 R. Sinha, Secretary Land Resources, Government of India
 M. Ratolojanahary, Minister of Land Reform & Admin., Gov. of Madagascar
 J. Winoto, Head, BPN Indonesia
 A. Sawyer, Head Governance Commission, Government of Liberia
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11:45 AMÂ - 12:45 PM
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13:00 - 14:30 PM
| Room | Session | | Â 13-121 | Contextualizing land governance at the country level (GOV1) | | Chair:Â M. Bwalya, Senior Specialist, NEPAD Secretariat | | Â |
Towards a general framework for assessing land governance (Burns)
| | Â | Improving land sector governance in Africa: The Case of Tanzania (Kironde) | | Â | Improving land sector governance in Latin America: The Case of Peru (Endo) | | Â | Improving land sector governance in Eastern Europe: Kyrgiz Republic (Underland) | | Â |
Discussant: T. Oesterberg, Swedesurvey, Sweden
| | Â | Â | | | | 10-100Â | Building Sustainable Well Governed Land Admin. Systems (SYS1) | | Chair:Â H. Onsrud, Director, Centre of Property Rights & Development,
              Norwegian Mapping Authority | |  |
Building spatial data infrastructures in Latin America (Borrero Mutis) | | Â | Positioning infrastructures for sustainable land governance (Higgins) | | Â | Establishing a modern land administration system: The Czech Republic (Suchanek) | | Â | Â Institutional and organizational developments for land administration (Greenway) | | Â | Â
Discussant: W. Zimmerman, Land Tenure Adviser, GTZ | | | | Â | Â |
| Â 2-800Â | Improving Private Sector Land Access (MKT1) | | Chair: V. Palmade, Lead Economist, AFTFP, World Bank | | Â |
Improving land policy for private sector development in Nigeria (Butler) | | Â | Institutional investment in agricultural activities: Potential and pitfalls (Selby) | | Â | Using 'doing business' as a catalyst for land policy reform: Burkina Faso (Toure) | |
Discussant: R. Spee, Global Leader, IBM Plant Locations International | | | | Â | Â |
15:00 - 16:30 PM | Room | Session | | Â 13-121Â Â | Land Govern. & Global Challenges of Food, Fuels, & Climate Change (GOV2) | | Chair: J. Lingham, Policy Division, DFID | | Â |
Addressing challenges of large-scale land acquisition for agric. production (Cotula) | |  | Drivers of investment in large-scale farming new & old: Evidence (Byerlee) | |  | Property rights to carbon in the context of climate change (Barnes) | |  |
Discussant:Â T. Ngaido, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
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| 10-100  | Potential and Challenges of Land Markets (MKT2) | | Chair: T. Oesterberg, Swedesurvey, Sweden | |
Making land markets work for all (Wallace) | | Impact of legal changes on land market activity in China’s changing env. (Riedinger) | | Measures to enhance trust in LAS and enhance proper use (Grover) | | Measures to improve equal access to land res. & related benefits in Uganda (Ahene) | |  |
Discussants: T. Burns, Managing Director, Land Equity International, Australia
                   R. Mahoney, Principal, Mahoney Geomatics, UK | |  | | |  |  |
| Â 2-800Â Â Â | Addressing Land Admin. & Mngt. Challenges at Country Level (SYS2) | | Chair: P. Creuzer, President, UNECE WPLA | | Â |
Large-scale adjudication based on aerial photog. in Namibia (Kapitango & Meijs) | | Â | Establishing a land administration system: Rwanda (Sagashya & English) | | Â | Urban land policies for the poor in East and Southern Africa (Silayo) | | Â |
Discussant:Â D. Roberge, Director, Office Surveyor General of Quebec, Canada | | Â | | Â | Â |
17:00 - 18:30 PM
| Room | Session | | 13-121Â Â | Land Governance at Country Level (GOV3) | | Chair: J. Sanjak, Managing Director, MCC | | Â |
The political economy of land policy reform: Mexico's PROCEDE (Gordillo de Anda) | |  | Legal & policy reforms to incr. security of tenure: Mozambique (Cossa & De Wit) | |  | Competing for urban land: Enhancing the bidding power by the poor (Napier) | |  |
Discussant:Â D. von Behaim, Land Tenure Advisor, GTZ
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| Â 10-100Â Â | Exploring the Different Dimensions of Land Markets (MKT3) | | Chair: W. Martin, Lead Economist, DECRG, World Bank | | Â |
Impacts of land certification on land market activity in Ethiopia (Holden) | | Â | Land consolidation in Vietnam: Results from a randomized experiment (Do) | | Â | Interaction between land and labor markets in China (Jin) | | Land market functioning in Ethiopia: Impacts and determinants (Ali) | |
Discussant: G. Kohlin, Associate Professor, Univ. of Gothenburg | | | | Â | Â | | Â 2-800Â | Securing (Individual or Communal) Rights to Marginal Lands (TNR1) | | Chair: C. di Leva, Chief Counsel, LEGEN, World Bank | |
Collective forest tenure reform in China: Outcomes & implications (Xu) | | Potential & pitfalls of communal tenure: Implications for South Africa (Cousins) | | Coastal communities:Â Securing equitable access to land & natural res. (Dumashie) | |
Discussants:Â R. Meinzen-Dick, Senior Researcher, IFPRI
                   J. Bruce, President, LADSI | | | | | | | |  |
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19:00 - 20:30 PM
| Room | Session | | MC Frnt Lobby | Reception | | Remarks | |     | I. Bjork-Klevby, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Habitat
S. Enemark, President, FIG
M. Cackler, Acting Director, ARD, World Bank
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
8:30 - 10:00 AM | Room | Session | | Â 13-121Â Â | Land Policy in Conflict- and Post-Conflict Settings (ACC1) | | Chair: J. Blok, Policy Officer, Sust. Land Management, European Commission | | Â |
Land policies and violent conflict: Towards addressing the root causes (Putzel) | |  | Potential contribution of land rights to recovery in DRC (Debroux, Bekhechi, & Topa) | |  | Dealing with land tenure in Iraq: Past failures and future opportunities (Stigall) | |
Discussants: S. Fricska, UN Habitat
                    D. Batson, US Dept. of State | | | |  |  |
| Â 10-100 Â | Â Private Vendors & Universities: Contributions to Innovation & Devt. (SPS)Â | | Chair: M. Higgins, Dept. of Nat. Resources & Water, Queensland, Australia | |
C. Paresi, UNU School of Land Administration Studies, ITC/Kadaster | | Â | P. Desjardins, Business Manager, GNSS Infrastructure Solutions, Trimble | | K. Schibli, EMEA Director, Coordination & Projects, Leica Geosystems | | B. Jones, Industry Manager, ESRI | | | | Â | | | Â Â 2-800Â Â | Spatial Planning and Urban Land Management (URB1) | | Â | Chair: I. Greenway, Chief Survey Officer & Director, Operational Land &
            Property Service, Northern Ireland | |
Providing technical assistance on nat'l territorial planning leg.: Albania exper. (Dowall) | | Improving land governance in urban settings: Approaches and experience (Rajack) | | The role of land information in Bogota's land tax reforms (Uribe) | | Â |
Discussants:Â M. Napier, Program Director, Urban Land Mark, South Africa
                   B. Kjellson, Nat'l Mapping, Cadastre & Land Reg. Auth., Sweden
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| | | | |  9-100   | Women's LandAccess: Legal Reform, Enforcement, & Empowerment (ACC3) | | Chair: E. Pehu, Adviser, ARD, World Bank | |  |
Women, land ownership, & econ. empowerment: Framework & issues (Meinzen-Dick) | |  | Do legal reforms really help women gain rights to land? (Giovarelli) | |  | Enforcement capacity: Challenges & opportun. integrating gender into Kosovo (Lamb) | |
Discussants: A. Mauro, Program Officer, Latin America, International Land Coalition
                   B. Cousins, Director, PLAAS, South Africa | | | |  |  |
10:30 - 12:00Â PM
| Room | Session | |  13-121  | Technology for Low-Cost Land Rights Recognition & Nat. Res. Mngt. (TNR2) | | Chair: Frits van der Wal, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |  |
Implementing the Social Tenure Domain Model: Ethiopia (Lemmen)   | |  | Real-time deforestation detection for enforcmnt. of forest reserves: Brazil (de Souza) | |  | A state-wide LIS for NRM & disaster monitoring (Krishna Murthy) | |  | Applying low-cost technologies in the field: Development of the talking titler (Barry) | |
Discussants:Â O. Larbi, Project Director, Ghana Land Admin.Project
                     D. Steudler, Ecole Polytech. Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland | | | |  |  |
| Â 10-100Â | Mechanisms and Impact of Redistributive Land Reform (ACC2) | | Chair: P. Munro Faure, Head, Land Tenure & Management Unit, FAO | | Â |
Direct and indirect impacts of CARL in the Philippines (Balisacan & Bresciani) | |  | Impacts of market-assisted land reform in South Africa (Keswell)         | |  | What is needed to ‘complete’ land reforms in West Bengal? (Yadav & Jin) | |
Discussant:Â M. Kirk, University of Marburg, Germany | | | | Â | Â |
| Â 2-800Â Â Â Â | Innovative Examples for Addressing Land Admin & Mngt. (SYS3) | | Chair: W. Zakout, Sector Manager, ECSSD, World Bank | | Â |
Experience from 10 Years of improving land administration in ECA (Adlington) | |  | China’s pilot rural land reg. scheme in context of current policy developments (Zhao) | |  | Using legal aid to empower rural women in Andra Pradesh: Experience (Hanstad) | |
Discussant: M. Goldstein, Senior Economist, PRMGE & DECRG | | | | Â | Â |
12:00 - 14:00 PM
| Room     | Session | | MC Atrium | Lunch speaker | |  |
Property rights and property wrongs: The cont'd relevance of land reform (Lipton)
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14:00 - 15:30 PM | Room | Session | | Â 13-121Â | Implementing Land Govern. in Practice: Bringing Partners Together (GOV4) | | Chair: K. Brooks, Sector Manager, AFTAR, World Bank | | Â |
The AU/AfDB/ECA land policy initiative: Progress thus far and next steps (Kagwanja) | | Implementing land policies on the ground: The role of the CAADP process (Bwalya) | |  | The French White paper on securing land rights & land governance (Vignacq) | |  | Land policy networks in SE Asia: How to make them more effective? (Chee Hai) | |  | Linkages btwn. land policy & food sec. in dev'ping countries (Farrington & Lingham) | |  | Increasing attention to land policy issues in donor programs: USAID's exper. (Myers) | |  | The FAO voluntary guidelines on land governance (Törhönen) | |  | Forging partnerships on a global land reporting initiative (Mauro) | | | |  |  |
| Â 10-100Â | Assessing the Impact of Improved Tenure Security (TNR3) | | Chair: G. Kohlin, Professor & Head, Envt. for Devt. Program, Univ. of Gothenburg | | Â |
Credit market impact of land titling in Nicaragua (Chamorro & Carter) | |  | Investment impacts of land certification in Ethiopia (Alemu) | |  | Benefits from changing women’s inheritance of land: Hindu Succession Act (Goyal) | |
Discussant: J. Sanjak, Managing Director MCC
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|  2-800  | Improving Urban Land Policies  (URB2) | | Chair: I. Bjork-Klevby, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Habitat | |  |
Developing urban indicators for managing mega cities (Kötter) | |  | Formalizing informal settlements in Eastern Europe: Lessons from exper. (Potsiou) | |  | Dealing with spatial diversity: Key land policy messages of the 2009 WDR (Freire) | |  | Formulating a sectoral approach to urban land policy: The case of Kenya (McLaren) | |
Discussant: G. Ingram, President & CEO, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy
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16:00 - 17:30 PM
|  Room |  Session | |  | CLOSING SESSION | | H Aud | Taking the Land Policy Agenda Forward: Conclusions & Next Steps | | Chair: J. Kagwanja, Economic Affairs Officer, UN-ECA | |  |
Land governance for the 21st century (Munro Faure & Onsrud) | | Â | Building sustainable land administration systems (van der Molen) | | Â | Securing social tenure for the poorest (Morden) | | Â | Making land markets work for all (Sanjak) | | Â | Improving access to land and shelter (Augustinus) | | Â | Land governance for rapid urbanization (Durand-Lasserve) | | | | Â |
 Wednesday, March 11, 2009
POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
NB: All post-conference workshops will take place in MCÂ 13-121
THE SOCIAL TENURE DOMAIN MODEL:
From concept to implementation
8:30 - 9:30 AM | The General Concept and Plans for Its Implementation | |
Introduction and problem statement | | S. Enemark, President, FIG | |
STDM: From design to implementation | | C. Paresi, Director, UNU School for Land Administration Studies, ITC | | C. Lemmen, Assistant Professor, ITC | |
UN-Habitat's role | | R. Sietchiping, UN-Habitat | |
Possibilities for testing in Ethiopia | M. Allebachew, World Bank, Ethiopia Country Office |
9:30 - 11:00 AM | Contributions from Key Experts | |
Institutional links | | T. Burns, Managing Director, Land Equity International, Australia | |
Software development | | K. Bell, Senior Land Specialist, East Asia & Task Manager, RALAS, World Bank | |
STDM and FLOSS | | M. Torhonen, Land Tenure Office, FAO | |
Similarities and differences to other software | P. Rabley, President, International Land Systems, US | Â |
 ACEH INDONESIA POST-TSUNAMI & POST-CONFLICT:
Building a better land administration system 14:00 - 15:15 PM | Opening and Keynote Address | | Chair: P. van der Molen, Head, Kadaster International | |
Opening remarks | | J. Roome, Sector Director, EASSD | |
Keynote address | | J. Winoto, Head, Indonesian National Land Agency (BPN) | |
The multi-donor response and progress so far | | K. Bell, Senior Land Specialist, East Asia & Task Manager, RALAS, World Bank | |
Project monitoring and civil society engagement | M. S. Shivakumar, RALAS Monitoring Specialist, World Bank | |
Findings of the RALAS Project Implementation and Beneficiary Assessment (PIBA) | | R. Deutsch, Consultant | | |
15:305 - 17:00 PM | Panel discussion on issues including land speculation, land acquisition, spatial planning, land allocation, re-settlement, the new Law on Governing Aceh, and the RALAS process | |
Closing remarks
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