Conference On Land Administration

Conference on New Challenges for Land Policy and Administration February 14-15, 2008 The World Bank, Washington DC

Draft Program Thursday, February 14

Coffee

9.00 – 9.15 Opening remarks Klaus Deininger, World Bank Clarissa Augustinus, GLTN & UN-Habitat Paul Munro-Faure, FAO

9.15 – 10.45 Land Tenure Issues in Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation Chair: C. Di Leva

Land tenure and the social dimensions of climate change Steve Bass, IIED Brazil: Implications of the climate change debate on land tenure in the Amazon Paulo Barreto, IMAZON Key tenure issues emerging in the context of carbon finance A. White, Rights and Resources Initiative Carbon finance and natural resource tenure: The case of Indonesia G. Dieterle, Adviser ARD (tbc)

Discussants: M. Kirk, K. Chomitz (tbc), S. Margulis (tbc)

10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break

11.15 – 13.00 New Technology & ICT in Land Administration: Country Cases

Towards a System of Title Registration in Andra Pradesh V. K. Agrawal, Commisioner of Survey, Settlement and Land Records K.C.M Kumar, Managing Director, Speck Systems Ltd, Hyderabad Modernization of Land Administration in Lithuania K. Sabaliauskas, Director General State Enterprise Center of Registers, Lithuania R. Kasperavicius, Deputy Director General State Ent. Center of Registers, Lithuania New approaches to managing land information The Case of Vietnam Dr. Vo, Former Vice Minister, MONRE Mr. Doi, MONRE Warwick Jones, CEO LandZone

Discussants: C. Graefen, K. Bell, M. Torhonen 13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH

14.00 – 15.30 Emerging Legal and Policy Issues Chair: J. Lindsay

The relevance of Islamic land law for policy and project design S. Sait, University of East London Compulsory Acquisitions: Lessons from experience and emerging issues P. Munro-Faure, FAO Ensuring access to land for private investors P. McAuslan, Birbeck College University of London Legal Aid in the context of CDD projects: The AP example R. Mitchell and R. Nielsen, RDI

Discussants: W.O. Larbi, Project Director, Ghana Land Project R. Mitchell, RDI, J. Bruce

16.00 – 17.30 New Approaches to Recording Land Rights in Rural and Urban Areas

Towards a Robust Social Tenure Domain Model C. Lemmen, ITC Large-scale recognition of traditional land rights: Lessons from Botswana N. Boipuso, University of Botswana Mozambique 10 years after the New Land Law C. Tanner Benin: Linking land rights to land use planning tbd

Discussants: H. Ouedraogo, ILC;

16.15 – 17.45 Evaluating the Impact of Land-related Interventions

Land-Certification in Ethiopia: Process, Impact, and Implications D. Ayalew World Bank Linking Evaluation to Monitoring: The Madagascar land observatory A. Teyssier, CIRAD Assessing the Impact of Land Titling in Peru: The case of the PETT R. Fort, GRADE

Discussants: J. Sanjak, P. Olinto, G. Feder Friday, February 15

Coffee

8.30 -10.00 Evidence on Land Reform Impacts

Market assisted land reform in Brazil M. Barbosa, Director, Department of Land Reform, Government of Brazil C. Romano, University of Sao Paulo Impact assessment of land reform in South Africa T. Gwanya, Director General DLA, Government of South Africa M. Keswell, University of Stellenbosch Long-term impacts of land reform: The case of West Bengal Songqing Jin, Michigan State University

Discussants: J.L. Laguna, Project Director Bolivia Land Access Project S. Schonberger, B. Dasari

10.30 – 12.00 Land Issues in the Context of Rapid Structural Change

Emerging Land Markets in African Cities: Evidence&policy implications A.Durand-Lasserve, University of Paris Towards a Title Registration System in Delhi: Why and How? R. Nayar-Stone, Urban Institute Land Management in a growing economy: The case of China G. Li and J. Lindsay, World Bank

Discussants: B. Valetta, R. Rajack, V. Palmade

12.00 – 13.00 LUNCH

13.00 – 14.30 Land Administration in Post-disaster and –conflict environments

Banda Aceh: Key lessons and the way forward D. Fitzpatrick, Australian National University Honduras: Lessons from Hurricane Mitch G. Barnes, University of Florida Establishing a land administration system in Sudan P. de Wit, independent consultant

Discussants: R. Trenchard, FAO, S. Friczka, W. Odwango 14.30 – 15.00 Coffee Break

15.00 – 16.30 Good governance in land administration

Conceptual framework Tony Burns

Country cases Tanzania L. Kironde Kyrgyz Republic A. Undeland Philippines

Discussants: O. Kaganova, Urban Insitute G. Sundet, Daylight Initiatives Norway S. Haile, UN-Habitat

16.30 – 17.30 Concluding Session: Emerging lessons and next steps

J. Kagwanja, African Union Donor representatives B. Moore & A. Fuys, ILC World Bank