[registration and program below]
Dear colleagues and friends,
The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), in partnership with the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN HABITAT), the Norwegian Mapping Authority (NMA) and Habitat Norway (HN) have the great pleasure to invite you to a workshop on “Land and Property Rights for Sustainable Development”, to take place on January 30th from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm, Hammersborggata 9, Oslo. This event will mark the global partnership entry into the “SDG Action Decade towards 2030”.
The workshop is arranged in conjunction with GLTN’s annual physical Steering Committee meeting and corresponds with the Network’s 15th anniversary. GLTN was initiated at an international conference in Vettre, Asker in 2005 organized by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since then, its 82 diverse partners have collaborated with a common focus of improving land and tenure security of marginalized groups in both urban and rural contexts.
With more than 70% of the global population lacking legally recognized documentation for the land they live on or use for production, land and tenure insecurity presents a significant obstacle to efforts to create acceptable living conditions for all. Forced evictions and “land grabbing” take place on almost on all continents, resulting in the loss of safe and stable environments for children and youth to grow up in. Women’s rights are particularly vulnerable in these situations, and in particular in contexts affected by human conflict and natural disasters. Guaranteed rights to land and property (secure tenure) will improve ordinary people’s opportunities to invest in and improve their housing situation. These are amongst the challenges and opportunities to be presented and deliberated upon during the workshop.
All three organizers of the workshop – GLTN, NMA and HN – share the goal of promoting sustainable development with a focus on improving living conditions in the rural-urban continuum. The Sustainable Development Goals, the New Urban Agenda, the Sendai and the Paris Declarations on Disaster and Climate respectively constitute a valuable normative frame for our partnership.
The workshop will highlight practical cases and approaches to addressing emerging challenges in the land ecosystem (conflict, displacement, climate change) to ensure tenure security for all within the framework of the SDGs, from technologically advanced information systems to concrete experiences and practice in the field.
We kindly request that you register via the registration form below or directly on habitatnorway@gmail.com before January 28th, 2020.
In addition, we would also like to welcome you to a showing of the film ‘The Rebel Optimist’ the evening before on Wednesday January 29th at 19:00 pm, at FolkOslo in Youngstorget. A separate invitation follows.
Sincerely,
Kåre Kyrkjeeide (NMA)
Oumar Sylla (GLTN)
Erik Berg (HN)
Registration:
Program:
Moderator: Jean du Plessis (Land and GLTN Unit, UN-Habitat)
| Time | Item | Speaker(s) |
| 9:00 | Welcome | • Marit Elisabeth Brandtzæg, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) • Victor Kisob, UN Habitat • Kåre Kyrkjeeide, Norwegian Mapping Authority • Erik Berg, Habitat Norway |
| 9:20 | Overview, the global state of affairs | • Harold Liversage, IFAD |
| 9:45 | Land, property and SDGs: opportunities toreduce the gap between urban and rural development | • Dr. Eugene Chigbu, Technical University of Munich |
| 10:30 | Advancing land and property rights: the position of women | • Mino Ramaroson, Huairou Commission: Building multi- stakeholder approach to strengthen women’s land rights • Javier Molina Cruz, Head of Land Tenure Section, UN-FAO: Women’s land rights in the VGGT: Lessons from countries |
| 11:00 | Advancing land and property rights: the position of youth | • Prof. Stein Holden, Centre for Land Tenure Studies, Norway: Lifting barriers for youth access to land from the Ethiopian experiences |
| 11:30 | Break | |
| 12:00 | Affordable technologyfor inclusive land administration and information | • Diane Dumashie, Vice President FIG: Fit-for-Purpose land administration approach to reduce the data gap • [tbc] Norwegian Mapping Authority: Land information and geospatial in transitioning countries |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Facing emerging issues in the land sector: climate change, conflict, peace and stability, indigenous land rights | • Siraj Sait, University of East London: Linkage between land tenure and climate change • Nonette Royo, Tenure Facility, Sweden: Mechanisms for protecting Indigenousland rights in the context of forest degradation • Oumar Sylla, GLTN: Towards a coherent engagement of UN in addressing land and conflict • Christian Graefen (BMZ/GIZ): Integration of land and property in the context of reconstruc-tion in the Arab Region |
| 15:30 | Closing remarks | Mona Brøther, Norwegian Mapping Authority |
