Land and Poverty Conference 2017: Responsible Land Governance

Welcome to the 18th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, the premier global forum on land governance.

OVERVIEW
Themes
Recordings
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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. Please view the 2016 World Bank Land and Poverty Conference.

2017 Conference structure (see program)

March 20: Pre-conference workshop and official opening at 4:30 p.m.
March 21, 22 and 23: Parallel thematic tracks with oral presentations and policy round table discussions. Final session will be followed by a reception on March 23.
March 23: "Lightning Talks" and demonstrations on geospatial data and technology solutions for land governance challenges (please submit proposals via website).
March 24: Learning Day with presentations of tools, instruments and approaches via MasterClasses, workshops and field visits (please submit proposals via website).
Exhibition booths: All week in World Bank Atrium (please contact the conference organizers on availability and conditions).

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

Monday, March 20, 2017
8:30–9:30am	Using Spatial Data for Land Administration
9:30–10:45am	Acquiring and using Land Data in Innovative Ways
4:30–6:00pm	Opening Session
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
8:30–10:00pm	Political and Economic Challenges of Land Policy Reform
10:30–12:00pm	Addressing Land Rights Risks in Value Chains
10:30–12:00pm	Private Sector Business Models in Land Administration
2:15–3:45pm	Localizing Real Rights: How to Link Registry and Cadaster?
2:15–3:45pm	Expanding African Capacity for Land Governance
4:00–5:30pm	Acting to Secure Community and Indigenous Land Rights
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
8:30–10:00am	Forest Tenure Reform Implementation: What have we Learned?
2:15–3:45pm	Will Blockchain Technology Revolutionize Land Administration?
4:00–5:30pm	Urban Expansion: Measurement Challenges and Implications for Policy
4:00–5:30pm	Using Land Policy for Sustainable Value Chains: the case of Brazil
10:30am–12:00pm	Is there Scope for Inclusive Agribusiness Models?
Thursday, March 23, 2017
8:30–10:00am	Doing Business: Quality of Land Administration
	Innovation Fair: Analyzing Land Data & Data Processing Part 1
	Innovation Fair: Analyzing Land Data & Data Processing Part 2
1:00–2:30pm	Migration and Land Tenure Dynamics
1:00–2:30pm	Progress with Responsible Investment Pledges
2:45–4:15pm	Potential and Limits of VGI
4:45–5:30pm	Award Ceremony “Greatest Improvement Quality Land Administration”: Punjab Land Record Authority