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World Bank Land Conference 2025: Securing Land Tenure and Access for Climate Action

May 5-8, 2025

Washington, DC

World Bank Land Conference 2025

The World Bank Land Conference has catalyzed the global land community for over 20 years. 

The Conference is the premier global forum for the land sector, bringing together over 1,000 participants from governments, development partners, civil society, academia, and the private sector to showcase policy-relevant research, discuss technical issues and sector good practice, and inform our dialogue. The Conference also aims to encourage cross-sectoral knowledge exchange and has incubated numerous investments, initiatives, and research projects led by diverse stakeholders, including the Voluntary Guidelines, the Land Governance Assessment Framework, and the Stand for Her Land Campaign.

The 2025 World Bank Land Conference will be held from May 5–8, 2025 in Washington, DC. To view the conference agenda, please visit our Event Platform, accessible via the button in the upper right corner.

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  • The theme of the 2025 World Bank Land Conference is "Securing Land Tenure and Access for Climate Action: Moving from Awareness to Action."

    Improving land governance and securing property rights are becoming increasingly crucial as the global development community seeks to address climate change and reverse the erosion of economic growth, poverty reduction, and human development since 2020. The importance of securing tenure to achieve climate action has been recognized in several major international climate-related initiatives, including the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use (2021) and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. And the global community has begun to scale up financing to strengthen land administration and secure land rights to advance climate adaptation and mitigation, especially for Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

    Building on the momentum from the 2024 Land Conference, which highlighted the land sector’s relevance to climate change, the 2025 World Bank Land Conference therefore aims to move from awareness to action by highlighting effective strategies for securing land tenure and access and to scale up land sector initiatives, investments, and policy reforms in support of climate change mitigation and adaption.

     

  • The World Bank Land Conference 2025 will be held from May 5–8, 2025 at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC.

    The Conference will include a range of events organized by the World Bank, development partners, civil society, and other partners, including high-level plenary sessions, thematic sessions, research sessions, regional operational workshops, global land initiatives, and an innovation expo in the World Bank Atrium and online. 

    • Plenary Sessions: These sessions will feature high-level external and internal speakers to motivate multistakeholder and multisectoral global action in the land sector and highlight key lessons and evidence. 
    • Thematic Sessions: These 90-minute parallel sessions will highlight operational innovations related to the annual theme. They aim to share cross-country best practice and facilitate knowledge sharing on the annual theme. 
    • Global Land Initiative Sessions: These 90-minute parallel sessions will facilitate key global partnership or policy initiatives in the land sector (e.g. Stand for Her Land Campaign). They aim to catalyze multistakeholder initiatives and policies to advance the global land agenda.
    • Land Administration Best Practice Sessions: These 90-minute parallel sessions will highlight sector best practice. They aim to share cross-country best practice and facilitate knowledge sharing on technical issues falling outside the annual theme and to strengthen the sector operational evidence base. 
    • Regional Operational Workshops: These workshops will consist of 2-3 sessions per region and will provide a forum to discuss key technical/land issues and innovations in the region, highlight operational lessons learned from governments and their partners, and discuss outstanding policy reforms and technical issues. They will support in-depth South-South operational knowledge exchange and technical learning across the World Bank, governments, and partners.
    • Research Sessions: These sessions will feature presentations and technical discussion of innovative research papers on land-related policies and land governance on the annual theme and aim to strengthen the evidence base for policymaking. They will be devoted to presenting rigorous research methods in a seminar-type setting to allow academic debate.

    Last Updated: Mar 17, 2025

CONFERENCE DETAILS

  • DATE: May 5–8, 2025
  • VENUE: 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433
  • SPONSORSHIP & BOOTH EXHIBITION: Contact Land Conference Team
  • CONTACT: landconf@worldbank.org
  • VIEW THE AGENDA: 
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