Land and Poverty Conference 2018: Land Governance in an Interconnected World

On 19-23 March 2018, the World Bank Group is hosting Land and Poverty Conference 2018: Land Governance in an Interconnected World in Washington DC, US. 

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 2018 conference theme will be: Land Governance in an Interconnected World. The conference has become one of the largest international events on land governance, attracting over 1,300 participants in 2017 from governments, academics, civil society, and the private sector. Please consult the  World Bank Land and Poverty Conference website for video recordings, papers and powerpoints presented at the 2017 conference.

Major themes include:

1. New academic research on the impact of land tenure security for sustainable development, equity and prosperity, (results and their policy relevance;  new research methodologies);
2. New rigorous impact evaluations on scalable approaches toward strengthening land governance;
3. New ways of using spatial data (imagery, drones, mobile phones etc.) to strengthen land governance, sustainable land use, and/or support land administration services in urban and/or rural settings;
4. Innovations for securing land and resource rights in customary settings, gender, collective action, and role of customary authorities;
5. Progress with land governance performance monitoring, approaches to (gender) disaggregation, and Sustainable Development Goals;
6. Requirements for moving from pilots to land administration service delivery at scale: good, cheap, fast and equitable;
7. Improving resilience and resilience impact of national land and geospatial systems; and seamless, unified and comprehensive geospatial data for enhanced management of landscapes and inclusive land reform;
8. Modernizing and financing land service delivery and organizations, contribution private sector;
9. New insights on land governance strategies for conflict prevention and supporting peace agreements;
10. Fair leverage of land for realizing and financing infrastructure, housing, urban expansion, and public goods;
11. Achieving responsible large-scale land based investments: lessons learned 10 years on. 

The Land Conference Masterclasses will take place on Friday, March 23rd, and are an opportunity to delve into specific themes, technologies, tools and approaches. Please click on the links below to find the descriptions for the masterclasses offered during this day and contact information. Classes are offered on sub-themes around the following major themes: 

• Land administration 
• IT and data technologies
• Cadastral mapping and Geospatial technologies and approaches
• Land policy, land use and equity, conflict mitigation
• Land data and monitoring
• Responsible land-based investments
• Land use and sustainability