Land Governance & the MDGs Conference

Legend:  Paper    Presentation    Video

• The importance of land policy in post-conflict situations:
  The case of Liberia
  Her Excellency E. Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia

• Land governance for sustainable development
  Professor S. Enemark, President, FIG

• Implementing a nation-wide land administration system
  M. Ratolojanahary, Minister of Land Reform & Administration, Govt of Madagascar

• Improving land administration in Ghana:
  Lessons and challenges in moving ahead
  C. Dauda, Minister of Lands & Natural Resources, Govt of Ghana

• Moving towards clear land title in India:
  Potential benefits, a roadmap, and remaining challenges
  R. Sinha, Secretary Land Resources, Government of India

• The challenges of land administration in post-conflict Liberia: Status and next steps
  A. Sawyer, Head Governance Commission & Former President, Government of Liberia

• Taking land policy & administration in Indonesia to the next stage: BPN's strategic plan
  J. Winoto, Head, BPN Indonesia

 

• Towards a general framework for assessing land governance
  T. Burns, Managing Director, Land Equity International, Australia

• Improving land sector governance in Africa:
  The case of Tanzania 
  L. Kironde, Professor, Ardhi University, Tanzania 

• Improving land sector governance in Latin America:
  The case of Peru
  V. Endo, Vice President, Int'l Operations, Inst. for Liberty &Democracy, Peru

• Improving land sector governance in Eastern Europe:
  The case of the Kyrgiz Republic
  A. Undeland, Independent consultant, Kyrgiz Republic

• Discussant: W. Zimmerman, Land Tenure Adviser, GTZ

• Drivers of investment in large-scale farming new and old: Evidence & implications for policy
  D. Byerlee, World Bank

• Addressing the challenges of biofuels and resource extraction
  L. Cotula, Senior Researcher, Law & Sust. Devt., Natural Res., IIED, UK 

• Property rights to carbon in the context of climate change
  G. Barnes, Assoc.Prof. Geomatics, Univ. of Florida, Gainsville

• Discussants: T. Ngaido, Sr. Research Fellow & Head, IFPRI Senegal
                         S. Schonberger, Lead Operations Officer, World Bank

• The political economy (& governance impact) of land policy reform:
  The case of Mexico' s PROCEDE
  G. Gordillo de Anda, Univ. of Indiana, & fmr Vice Min. of Ag., Gvt of Mexico  

• Legal & policy reforms to increase security of tenure & improve land administration 
  R. Cossa, Director, DNTF, Mozambique
  P. de Wit, Land Policy and Strategy Adviser, MCA, Mozambique

• Using legal aid to empower rural women in Andhra Pradesh:
  Experience and lessons thus far
  T. Hanstad, Executive Director, RDI

• Discussant: D. von Behaim, Senior Planning Officer, Land Mngt., GTZ

• The AU/AfDB/ECA land policy initiative:
  Progress thus far and next steps
  J. Kagwanja, Economic Affairs Officer, UN-ECA

• Implementing land policies on the ground:
  The role of the CAADP process
  M. Bwalya, Senior Specialist, NEPAD Secretariat

• The French White paper on securing land rights & land gov.
  A. Durand Lasserve, Dir. of Research, Nat'l Centre of Sci. Res. France

• Land policy networks in South East Asia:
  How to make them more effective?
  Theo Chee Hai, Director, Geometra Surveys Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

• Linkages between land policy & food security
  in developing countries
  J. Farrington, Research Fellow, ODI & J. Lingham, Policy Division, DFID

• The FAO voluntary guidelines on land governance
  M. Torhonen, Land Tenure Office, FAO, Italy 

• Forging partnerships on a global land reporting initiative
  A. Mauro, Program Officer, International Land Coalition, Latin America 

•  Discussion

 

 

  THEME 2: SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS FOR LAND ADMIN.& MNGT.

• Building Spatial Data Infrastructures in Latin America 
  S. Borrero Mutis, Sec. General, Panamer. Inst. Geog. & Hist., Mexico

• Positioning infrastructures for sustainable land governance 
   M. Higgins,  Dept. of Nat. Resources and Water, Queensland, Australia

• Establishing a modern land administration system:
  The case of the Czech Republic
  V. Suchanek, COSCMC       

• Institutional and organizational developments for land admin. 
  Ian Greenway, Chief Executive, Ordinance Survey of Northern Ireland  
  

• Discussant: T. Oesterberg, Swedesurvey, Sweden

• Land registration using aerial photography in Namibia:
  Costs and lessons
  D. Kapitango, Devt. Planner, Communal Land Bd.,Oshikoto, Namibia Gov.
  M. Meijs, Government of Namibia

• Establishing a land administration system:
  Technical and Economic Analysis for Rwanda
  D. Sagashya, Deputy Director, National Land Centre, MINIRENA, Rwanda
  C. English, Senior Project Director & Land Consultant, HTSPE

• Urban land policies for the poor in East and Southern Africa
  E. Silayo, Senior Lecturer, Ardhi University, Tanzania

• Discussant: D. Roberge, Director, Office Surveyor General of Quebec

• Experience from 10 tears of improving land administration in ECA
  G. Adlington, Lead Land Administration Specialist, World Bank  

• China’s pilot rural land registration scheme in the context of current policy developments
  Y. Zhao, Director General, FEA,  Government of China   

• Competition for urban land:
  Enhancing the bidding power by the poor
  M. Napier, Urban Land Mark South Africa

• Discussants: P. Creuzer, President, UN-ECE WPLA
                          M. Goldstein, Senior Economist, PRMGE & DECRG

 

• Collective forest tenure reform in China:
  Outcomes & implications
  J. Xu, Professor, Beijing University

• Potential & pitfalls of communal tenure:
  Experience in Africa & implications for South Africa
  Ben Cousins, Director, PLAAS, South Africa 

• Coastal Communities:
  Securing equitable access to land and natural resources
  D. Dumashie, Private Consultant, UK

• Discussants: R. Meinzen-Dick, Senior Researcher, IFPRI
                         J. Bruce, President, LADSI

• Implementing the Social Tenure Domain Model with open source software:
  The case of Ethiopia
  C. Lemmen, Assistant Professor, ITC, Netherlands

• Near real-time Deforestation Detection for Enforcement of
  Forest Reserves in Mato Grosso
  C. de Souza, Imazon, Brazil 

• A state-wide LIS for NRM & disaster monitoring:
  Scope for land administration
  YVN Krishna Murthy, Director, Indian Space Research Organization

• Applying low-cost technologies in the field:
  Development of the talking titler
  M. Barry, Associate Professor, University of Calgary, Canada

• Discussants: D. Steudler, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
                          O. Larbi, Project Director, Ghana Land Admin. Proj.

• Credit market impact of land titling in Nicaragua:
  Methodology & emerging challenges
  J.S. Chamorro, Office of the President, Nicaragua &
  M. Carter, Professor, University of Wisconsin  

• Investment impacts of land certification in Ethiopia
  T. Alemu, Professor, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Benefits from changing women’s inheritance of land:
  The case of Hindu Succession Act
   A. Goyal, Economist, World Bank  

• Discussant: J. Sanjak, Managing Director, MCC

 

• Improving land policy for private sector development in Nigeria:
  Lessons & challenges ahead
  S. Butler, Senior Associate, NORC, University of Chicago

• Institutional investment in agric.activities: Potential & pitfalls
  A. Selby, Senior Investment Policy Officer, CICIG, Morgan Stanley, UK
  

• Using 'doing business' as a catalyst for land policy reform:
  The case of Burkina Faso
  A. Traore, Doing Business Better in Burkina Faso

• Discussant: R. Spee, Global Leader, IBM Plant Locations International

MKT2: Potential and challenges of land markets

• Making land markets work for all
  J. Wallace, Professor, University Melbourne, Australia

• The impact of legal changes on land market activity in China’s rapidly changing envt.
  J. Riedinger, Dean, Michigan State University 

• Measures to enhance trust in LAS and enhance proper use
  R. Grover, Principal Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, UK

• Measures to improve equal access to land resources and related benefits in Uganda
  R. Ahene, Professor, Lafayette College, US   

• Discussants: T. Burns, Managing Director, LEI, Australia
                         R. Mahoney, Principal, Mahoney Geomatics, UK

• Impacts of land certification on land market activity in Ethiopia
  S. Holden, Norwegian University of Life Sciences  

• Land consolidation in Vietnam:
  Results from a randomized experiment
  T. Do, Economist, World Bank   

• Interaction between land and labor markets in China
   S. Jin, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, US

• Land market functioning in Ethiopia: Impacts and determinants
   D. Ali, Economist, World Bank  

• Discussant: G. Kohlin, Associate Professor, Univ. of Gothenburg

 

• Land policies and violent conflict: Towards addressing the root causes
  J. Putzel, Professor, London School of Economics   

• The potential contribution of land rights to recovery in the DRC
  P. Debroux, M. Bekhechi, and G. Topa, World Bank

• Dealing with land tenure in Iraq: Past failures and future opportunities
  D. Stigall, US Army, JAG

• Discussants: S. Fricska, UN Habitat & D. Batson, US Dept. of Defense

ACC2: Mechanisms and impact of redistributive land reform

• Direct and indirect impacts of CARL in the Philippines:Lessons for the future
  A. Balisacan, Director SEARCA & F. Bresciani, World Bank

• Impacts of market-assisted land reform in South Africa: A matching approach
  M. Keswell, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

• What is needed to ‘complete’ land reforms in West Bengal?
   V. Yadav, Prof. & S. Jin, Asst. Prof., Michigan State University, US

• Discussant: M. Kirk, Professor, University of Marburg, Germany

• Women, land ownership and economic empowerment:
  Framework, issues & questions
  R. Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

• Do legal reforms really help women gain access to land?
  R. Giovarelli, Senior Fellow, Global Center for Women's Land Rights, Rural Development Inst.

• Enforcement capacity: Challenges & opportunities in
  integrating gender into Kosovo land project
  T. Lamb, International Legal Consultant 

• Lessons learned from program on women's access to land: India
  T. Hanstad, Executive Director, Rural Development Institute

• Linking research and action and evidence-based advocacy:
  The ILC experience
  A. Mauro, Program Manager, Latin America, International Land Coalition

 

• Providing technical assistance on nat'l territorial planning legislation:
  The Albania experience
  D. Dowall, Professor, UC Berkeley

• The role of land information in Bogota’s land tax reforms
   M.C. Uribe, Bogota Municipal Cadastre, Colombia 

• Improving land governance in urban settings: Approaches and experience thus far
  R. Rajack, Senior Development Specialist, FEU, World Bank

• Discussant: B. Kjellson, National Mapping, Cadastre & Land Registr.
                            Authority of Sweden

• Developing urban Indicators for Managing Mega Cities
  T. Kötter, Professor, University of Bonn, Germany

•  Formalizing informal settlements in Eastern Europe: Lessons from experience
   C. Potsiou, Assistant Professor, National Technical University, Greece

• Dealing with spatial diversity: Key land policy messages of the 2009 WDR
   M. Freire, Senior Advisor, FEU, World Bank 

• Formulating a sectoral approach to urban land policy: The case of Kenya
  R. McLaren, Director, Know Edge Ltd, Edinburgh, UK  

•  Discussant: G. Ingram, President & CEO, Lincoln Inst. for Land Policy

 

• Land Governance for the 21st century
  P. Munro Faure, Head, Land Tenure Service & Mngt. Unit, FAO
  H. Onsrud, Director, Centre Prop. Rights & Devt., Norwegian Cadastre

• Building sustainable land administration systems
  P. van.der Molen, Head, Kadaster International    

• Securing social tenure for the poorest
  C. Morden, Director, North American Liaison Office, IFAD 

• Making land markets work for all
  J. Sanjak, Managing Director, MCC   

• Improving access to land and shelter
  C. Augustinus, Chief, Land Tenure & Property Admin., UN Habitat   

• Land governance for rapid urbanization
  A. Durand-Lasserve, Dir. of Research, Nat'l Centre of Sci. Res., France

 

• C. Paresi, Director, UNU School for Land Administration Studies

• P. Desjardins, Business Manager, GNSS Infrastructure Solutions, Trimble

• K. Schibli, EMEA Director, Coordination & Projects, Leica Geosystems

• B. Jones, Industry Manager, ESRI

Lunch Speaker on Tuesday:

• Property rights and property wrongs: The relevance of land reform and a small-farmer strategy for property reduction and economic development
  M. Lipton, Professor, University of Sussex, UK

               

  THE SOCIAL TENURE DOMAIN MODEL:
From concept to implementation

 

Workshop Summary

 

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

• Institutional links
  T. Burns, Managing Director, Land Equity International, Australia

• Software development
  K. Bell, Senior Land Specialist, World Bank

• STDM and FLOSS
  M. Torhonen, Land Tenure Office, FAO

• Similarities and differences to other software
  P. Rabley, President, International Land Systems, US

    ACEH INDONESIA POST-TSUNAMI & POST-CONFLICT:
Building a better land administration system

 

•  Keynote: The government response to Aceh's land administration
  Dr. J. Winoto, Head of the Indonesian National Land Agency (BPN)

•  The multi-donor response and progress so far
  K. Bell, Senior Land Specialist, 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

  IMPACT EVALUATION OF LAND-RELATED PROJECTS:
A Methodology Workshop

 

IMPACT EVALUATION: Key rationale, concepts, & application to land

• An introduction to impact evaluation
  M. Goldstein, AFTPM and DECRG

• Key issues of evaluating impacts for land-related projects
  J. Conning, CUNY

EXAMPLES USING EXISTING DATA

• Land reform in South Africa
  M. Keswell, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

• Land certification in Ethiopia
  D. Ali, DECRG

• Computerization of land records in Andhra Pradesh
  A. Goyal, DECRG

 

LUNCH: KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

• Land registration, economic growth, and poverty reduction
  G. Feder, IFPRI

LINKING IMPACT EVALUATION TO PROJECT INTERVENTION

• Integrating impact evaluation into project cycle: MCC's approach
  A. Rothbaum & J. Sanjak, MCC

• AADAPT: The Bank's program for impact eval. of agric. projects
  A. Legovini, DECIE

 

EXAMPLES OF PLANNED IMPACT EVALUATIONS

• Mozambique: Award of rural land certificates
  J. Witriol & J. Bhatt, MCC

• Tanzania: Residential licenses and CROs
  A. Zeitlin, Oxford University

• Benin: Plan Foncier Rural
  A. Richter, UI & NORC and K. Mark, MCC

• Ghana: Equity implications of land certificates
  O. Larbi, Ghana Land Admin. Proj. Administrator & M. Goldstein, DECRG