Land and Poverty Conference 2016: Scaling up Responsible Land Governance

Mar 16, 2016 - Mar 18, 2016 | World Bank
Washington, DC
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Now in its 17th year, the annual World Bank conference on land and poverty brings together key stakeholders from governments, civil society, academia, the development community, and the private sector to discuss land policy design and implementation, impact evaluation and progress monitoring, and the latest research on these issues. This year’s conference will pay special attention to working at scale, mainstreaming innovations, and sustaining investments in land governance. Conference participants will discuss what can be done to guarantee inclusiveness, sustainability, and reliability, build capacity, and ensure that better land information and more tenure security contribute to wider societal objectives and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Conference Structure

The conference will start on March 14 at 5 pm and conclude on March 18. A pre-conference workshop on “Assessing Land Governance” will be held immediately preceding the opening session on March 14. The keynote speaker for the 2016 Conference is Paul Romer, Professor of Economics, at the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Sessions comprising select papers and debates on important innovations and policy issues will run concurrently on March 15-17, together with poster presentations The 2016 Innovations Fair featuring how innovations in technology and open data can help improve land governance at scale will be held all day on Monday, March 14 and half day on Tuesday, March 15.  A post-conference learning day with MasterClasses will be held on March 18 and offer hands-on classes to familiarize participants with cutting edge tools and techniques developed to help policy makers.  All session descriptions and papers have been published in the online agenda with some sessions having simultaneous translation and being livestreamed on our website.

Some of the sessions taking place during this event are listed below; (draft agenda: https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2016/sessions.php)

Tuesday, March 15

  • 2:45-4:15PM: Lessons Learned from CSO-led Systematic Registration of Customary Land in Zambia
  • 4:30-6:00PM: Improving Security of Rights to Resources through Participatory Rangeland Management in Ethiopia

Wednesday, March 16

  • 8:30AM-10:00AM: The Implementation of Rwanda's Expropriation Law and Its Outcomes on the Population
  • 1:00-2:30PM: Insights from Rwanda: Analysis of a Land Conflict Resolution Project in Eastern Province
  • 1:00-2:30PM: Does secure community forest tenure affect forest condition? New pre-treatment evidence from a quasi-experimental evaluation of a REDD+ Project in Zambia
  • 2:45-4:15PM: Land and Rural Development Policy Reforms in Colombia: The Path to Peace
  • 4:30-6:00PM: Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) Governance and Customary Tenure Institutions: Practices and Outcomes in Guinea

Thursday, March 17

  • 1:00-2:30PM: Good Land Governance in Public and Private Domains: Setting Donors’ Priorities
  • 1:00-2:30PM: To what extent does tenure security shape agroforestry investment and impacts on agriculture and livelihoods in strong customary land systems? Evidence from early agroforestry adopters in Zambia’s Eastern Province
  • 2:45-4:15PM: Creating Space: Reforming Informal Land Tenure and the Rights of Previously Excluded Groups

Check-in and Security Screening

All registered participants must have a valid photo ID (such as your national passport or US Driver’s License) to check-in. All bags must be scanned upon each entrance to the World Bank. A conference assistant will be available to help you officially check-in and provide your conference and security badge.

Please note that participants who enter the World Bank building (even with their security pass) outside the check-in times above are required to use the Visitor’s Entrance on the corner of 18th and H Streets NW.

The official Check-in times are below:

14-Mar-16           7:30 AM               5:30 PM

15-Mar-16           7:30 AM               2:00 PM

16-Mar-16           7:30 AM               2:00 PM

17-Mar-16           7:30 AM               2:00 PM

18-Mar-16           8:00 AM               12:00 PM