23rd May 2022
Land plays a key role in supporting economic, ecological, cultural and social development within a country. Most developed economies have sophisticated systems in place that allow interests in land resources to be defined, protected, traded. Yet despite decades of international support for land reform and land improvement in developing countries there are still significant problems. We urgently need better ways of engaging and generating systemic change.
This International Land Management conference is an initiative of the Land – International Network of Knowledge. International experts will share their insights into best practice and emerging research in the sector, including topics focusing on sustainable land management and improvements in land tenure.
Attendance
We hosted participants from 28 countries.
With a mix of public, private and academic sector attendees, we look forward to hosting more events in the future.
Agenda
The conference starts at 09:30 am BST.
| Start | End | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30:00 | 09:55:00 | Welcome and introduction to LINK | Geoffrey Payne (GPA, UK) / Jessica Lamond (UWE, UK) / Grazyna Wiejak-Roy (UWE, UK) |
| 09:55:00 | 10:20:00 | Sustainable land governance | Stig Enemark (Aalborg University, Denmark) |
| 10:20:00 | 10:45:00 | Incentivizing afforestation of degraded common property resources using market based instrument | Ram Ranjan (Shiv Nadar University, India) |
| 10:45:00 | 11:10:00 | The global agenda for sustainable urban development | Robin Bloch (UWE / COWI, UK) |
| 11:10:00 | 11:30:00 | Break | |
| 11:30:00 | 11:55:00 | Land and responsible investment in agriculture | Belachew Yirsaw Alemu (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia) |
| 11:55:00 | 12:20:00 | Land registration in conflict regions – Palestinian experience | Salem A Thawaba and Abdul Naser A Arafat (Birzeit University, Palestine) |
| 12:20:00 | 12:45:00 | Developments in customary tenure | Moses Musinguzi (Makerere University, Uganda) |
| 12:45:00 | 13:45:00 | Break | |
| 13:45:00 | 14:10:00 | Land tenure reform | Clive English (UK) / Mustapha Issa (NGO, Tanzania) |
| 14:10:00 | 14:35:00 | Building modern land information management systems | Anthony Beck, Duncan Moss, Dave Stow, Andy Wilson (Ordnance Survey, UK) |
| 14:35:00 | 14:40:00 | Break | |
| 14:40:00 | 15:05:00 | Effectiveness of land management systems | Chryssy Potsiou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) |
| 15:05:00 | 15:30:00 | Toward financially sustainable land administration | Richard Baldwin (UWE / iLand, UK) / Maxwell Mutema (Zimbabwe) |
| 15:30:00 | 16:15:00 | Discussion | James Kavanagh (RICS, UK) |
| 16:15:00 | 16:25:00 | Closing remarks and next steps | Grazyna Wiejak-Roy (UWE, UK) / Jessica Lamond (UWE, UK) |
Speakers
Prof. Abdul Naser Arafat
Professor, Birzeit University, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Palestine
Abdul Naser Arafat is the Chairman of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and Head of the Master of Civil Engineering Program at Birzeit University. He has received his Ph.D. Degree from the University of Florida and since then has been working as a research scientist and post-doctoral associate at the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies of the University of Florida. He also worked on transportation planning and sustainability issues focusing on land use, transportation, and environment. During his post-doctorate research, he investigated two of the largest sustainable development projects in Florida. Abdul Naser holds M.Sc. in Structural Engineering from Al-Najah National University and B.Sc. in Civil engineering from Birzeit University. With Zwick P. and Patten I., Abdul Naser coauthored the book – Advanced Land-use Analysis for Regional Geodesign (Environmental Systems Research Institute ESRI Press, Redlands, California, 2007).
Dr Richard Baldwin
Visiting Professor, UWE Bristol, iLand
Richard is a Visiting Professor at University of West of England and has over 25 years of experience as a land administration professional working in more than 30 countries in eastern Europe, central Asia, the far east, Africa and the Caribbean. Richard has both academic (BSc, MSc, PhD) and business (MBA) qualifications and also undertook a two year postdoc in Japan. From 1992 until 2004, Richard worked mostly in eastern Europe (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Lebanon and the former Yugoslavian territories), on the modernization of land administration systems and supporting emergent land markets. From 2004, Richard has worked increasingly worldwide and is currently undertaking or has recently completed assignments in Greece, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kosovo as well as completing several WB studies. Increasingly Richard’s work focuses on programme design, supervision, land markets and innovative ways to undertake land registration and build sustainable land administration systems.
At LINK Richard is responsible for the Knowledge Exchange stream. If you are interested, please e-mail r.baldwin@iland.consulting or visit our knowledge exchange page.
Dr Anthony Beck
Concept and Data Architect, Ordnance Survey, UK
Anthony is a Concept and Data architect. He is lead author on many academic journal publications that cover different domains: these include land administration, utilities, heritage, smart cities and addressing. He holds a PhD in heritage remote sensing applications and advises specialist, policy and standards bodies. He has won a number of industry awards including work on the integration of underground utility assets and the PAS128 utility standard. He was short-listed for the Institute of Civil Engineers entrepreneur of the year award. Anthony is fluent with ISO19152 (Land Administration Domain Model) and is contributing to the ISO19152 version 2 revision. He is interested in approaches that improve registration automation and first-order logic modelling of the registration domain.
Dr Robin Bloch
Technical Director, COWI, UK
Dr Robin Bloch is the Market Area and Technical Manager: Sustainable Urban Development and Land at COWI. He is an urban and regional planner and economist, who specialises in spatial and land use planning at all territorial scales, in local economic development, and in environmental management, sustainability and resilience. His major clients include World Bank, AfDB, DFID, DANIDA, the UK FCO, USAID, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), the European Commission, SIDA, Cities Alliance, the International Development Research Centre, the Global Environmental Facility, the Nordic Development Fund, the French Development Agency (AFD), and various city governments, including Johannesburg and Dubai. Robin also served as co-investigator on the Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land and Infrastructure project, and managed research on informal, peri-urban and suburban land use change, with city case studies in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Ghana. He is Visiting Professor at the University of West England from 2020 to 2023 and Visiting Research Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of the Witwatersrand and Research Associate at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto.
Prof. Stig Enemark
Professor Emeritus of Land Management, Aalborg University, Denmark
Stig Enemark is Honorary President of the International Federation of Surveyors, FIG (President 2007-2010). He is Professor Emeritus of Land Management at Aalborg University, Denmark, where he was Head of School of Surveying and Planning for 15 years. He holds a M.Sc. in Surveying, Planning, and Land Management and before joining the University in 1980 he was a consultant surveyor in private practice for 12 years. He is Past President and Honorary Member of the Danish Association of Chartered Surveyors. He is a well-known international expert and consultant in the areas of land administration systems, land management and spatial planning, and related issues of education and capacity development. He has published widely in these areas and undertaken consultancies for the World Bank and the European Union especially in Eastern Europe, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. For a full list of more than 400 publications see: https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/100037/publications/
Clive English
Project Manager & Land Tenure Specialist
Clive is a project manager and land tenure specialist with more than 40 years of experience leading complex development projects in natural resources development, agriculture and soils, land use planning and implementation, land administration, regularisation, reform of land institutions and resettlement planning, For most of his career Mr English has worked with Hunting Tech Services, UK as a Director responsible for land and natural resource based projects as well as being project manager on numerous field assignments in over 20 countries around the world in Asia Africa, Middle East and the Caribbean. For the last 25 years his work has focused mainly on land tenure, administration and resettlement having and project managed programmes in Lesotho, Guyana, Rwanda Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Tanzania.
James Kavanagh
Head of Land & Resources, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, UK
James Kavanagh MRICS C.Geog is a Chartered Surveyor & Chartered Geographer. James studied at TUD Dublin and University of London. With over 30 years’ experience in the global land and property sectors, James has worked on some of the largest surveying projects in Europe before spending several years working on mapping, surveying, and informal land rights issues for the United Nations (UNRWA). James is head of Land & Resources with The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). James is chair of the International Land Standard (ILMS) Coalition, vice chair of FIG Comm 9 and is working on further research, insight, and standards on issues of valuation within informal settlements, on customary land issues, land acquisition and compensation and the process of land and property rights formalization.
Mustapha Issa
Chief Executive Officer for Tanzania Land Tenure Assistance (TLTA) NGO
Mr. Issa has more than 12 years’ experience working in the private sector and on donor-funded projects. Mr. Issa currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer on Tanzania Land Tenure Assistance (TLTA) where he leads the land formalization activities, including the preparation of Village Land Use Planning and Village Land Registration activities. Before working with DAI on the USAID LTA activity, Mr. Issa worked with Cloudburst Group and CARE International on the USAID Mobile Application to Secure Tenure (MAST) program. During this time, Mr. Issa coordinated the initial project mobilization with key Government of Tanzania stakeholders and initiated the Mobile Technology Pilot (MTP) at the Ministry level. Mr. Issa has also worked with Credit Suisse on the Girls Education in Pastoralist Society (GEPS) program and the USAID Integrated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Program (iWASH) as a Program Engineer.
Prof. Jessica Lamond
Professor in Real Estate and Climate Risk; Associate Dean of Research and Scholarship, Faculty of Environment and Technology; Co-Director of the Centre for Architecture and Built Environment, UWE Bristol
Jessica is currently Professor in Real Estate and Climate Risk at the University of the West of England and co-Director of the centre for Architecture and Built Environment at UWE, Bristol. Her research interests include the fields of flood and climate risk management, real estate, land and property valuation and land management and she has recently led projects for a wide variety of funders including EPSRC, DFID, Defra, RICS and Flood Re. Jessica led the land planning and management of the DFID funded Urbanisation Research Nigeria research programme which spanned land planning and registration, climate resilience, municipal service delivery and valuation of urban development.
At LINK Jessica is responsible for the Research stream. If you are interested, please e-mail jessica.lamond@uwe.ac.uk or visit our Research page.
Prof. Moses Musinguzi
Associate Professor Land Management, Makerere University, Uganda
Moses Musinguzi an Associate Professor in the Department of Geomatics and Land Management at Makerere University in Uganda. He is a registered/licenced Land Surveyor with over 27 years’ experience in Land Administration and Geographical / Land Information Systems working as a Researcher, Consultant and Educationist. He possesses a PhD in Geo-informatics undertaken as a sandwich between Uppsala University in Sweden and Makerere University in Uganda (2004-2007), a Masters Degree in Geographical Information Systems from Nottingham University in the UK (1995-1996) and a Bachelors Degree in Surveying from Makerere University (1990-94). Dr Musinguzi has participated in Land Administration reforms in Africa with experience in Uganda, Liberia, Mozambique and East African Countries. He has speared efforts for systematic regularisation of customary tenure and capacity development of formal and informal land institutions.
Prof. Maxwell Mutema
Professor Maxwell Mutema is a chartered surveyor with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; a Chartered Scientist, UK; a Chartered Environmentalist, UK; a Fellow of the Institute of Agricultural Management, UK; a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, UK and a Fellow of the UK Institute of Food Science and Technology. Maxwell has worked extensively on land, agricultural and real estate issues in Africa including land management, land governance and administration, security of land tenure, land policy and markets, real estate finance and investment and valuation. Maxwell has completed consultancy work for international and Africa Based organizations such as World Bank, RICS, African Development Bank, Trade and Development Bank of Eastern and Southern Africa, UN Habitat, United Nations Development Programme, FAO, USAID, the then DFID, Ford Foundation, ASARECA and RUFORUM, ORGUT UK and COMESA.
Geoffrey Payne
Geoffrey Payne is a housing and urban development consultant with five decades of experience covering all regions of the world. He has undertaken research, consultancy and capacity building assignments for international development agencies, governments and academic institutions, published widely and contributed to numerous international conferences. His main focus is on reviewing and developing innovative approaches for providing secure land tenure and property rights, advising on urban planning, land management, housing policy and promoting multi-stakeholder partnerships to build local capacity. In all this work, a major consideration is increasing local capability and supporting future generations of professionals in the fields of housing and urban development. His latest book ‘Somewhere to Live: Rising to the global urban land and housing challenge’ is published by Practical Action.
Prof. Chryssy Potsiou
Professor Chryssy Potsiou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Chryssy Potsiou is a Professor teaching Cadastre and Land Management, Property Valuation, and BIM at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Having served the International Federation of Surveyors as Commission Chair, Vice President, and President, she is now a Honorary President of the organization. Until recently she has been a bureau member of UNECE/Working Party on Land Administration and UNECEWPLA Vice-Chair. She cooperated as a consultant with the World Bank and the Norwegian Mapping Agency for the compilation of research on the formalization of informal settlements in the UNECE region. She served as a member of the board of directors at the Hellenic Mapping and Cadastre Organization and the agency responsible for the implementation of the Hellenic Cadastre, Association of Rural and Surveying Engineers, Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and Society for Geographic Information Systems.
Prof. Ram Ranjan
Associate Professor Department of Economics School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, India
Ram is a resource economist with interests in water scarcity management, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation responses. Ram holds a PhD in resource economics from Penn State, and prior to joining SNU has worked at USDA-ERS, University of Florida, CSIRO, and Macquarie University (Australia). A unifying theme for his recent work has been managing risks through mitigation and adaptation measures as well as understanding how changes in natural environments create complex feedbacks in inter-linked human, ecological and economic systems. Some of Ram’s current work has been towards modelling the optimal management of socio-economic and ecological systems exhibiting non-linear dynamics and endogenous risks. Examples include, understanding how aquatic systems respond to multiple stressors, how farmers adapt to prolonged water scarcity through seeking alternative occupations, quantifying and modelling resilience of water starved farmers, determinants and success of collective action in groundwater management, REDD and REDD+ programs, and payments for ecosystem services.
Prof. Dave Stow
Associate Professor Senior Architect, Ordnance Survey, UK
Dave Stow is Senior Architect at Ordnance Survey where he is enabling the business to implement its strategy of delivering managed digital services across the globe. Having lived and operated internationally, Dave has experience spanning thirty-five years, ranging across utilities, finance, a technology startup, not-for-profit, and public sector. Dave has a particular interest in how technology enables new capabilities – and how they can positively impact the lives of people. His current area of focus is on effective Land Administration, and the deep effect it has on the economic well-being of a country. He has spoken at a number of conferences on this topic, including a keynote at the Middle East / Africa Esri User Conference and at the World Bank, and has been integral to the creation of the Ordnance Survey’s Managed Land Solution value proposition and technology platform.
Grazyna Wiejak-Roy
Senior Lecturer in Urban Economics and Real Estate, UWE Bristol
Grazyna is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Economics and Real Estate in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of the West of England. Her teaching centres around real estate finance, investment, and strategy. Her research is on investment strategies, transaction risk, the changing nature of the retail real estate market and land management. She carries nearly 20 years of experience in real estate consultancy gained at EY, PwC, and KPMG in the UK, Europe and Australia. She is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Chartered Valuation Surveyor, RICS assessor, past member of RICS governing bodies in Poland and Australia, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She holds MA in Economics, MSc in Property Appraisal and Management and PGCert in Academic Practice.
At LINK Grazyna is responsible for the Education and Professional Development stream. If you are interested, please e-mail grazyna.wiejak-roy@uwe.ac.uk or visit our Education Page.
Andy Wilson
Region Director, Europe, South Africa and Rest of World, Ordnance Survey, UK
Andy provides advice to government agencies, focusing on spatial agreements and how these deliver economic, environmental, and citizen benefits. He has nearly 35 years’ experience in the geospatial industry, and was responsible for developing and implementing the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) for Great Britain. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Dr Belachew Yirsaw Alemu
Assistant Professor, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
Dr. Belachew Yirsaw is an Assistant Professor in Real Estate Economics at the Institute of Land Administration, Bahir Dar University. Prior to joining Bahir Dar University, he has been a monitoring and evaluation expert in the investment office of the Amhara National Regional State. Dr Belachew initiated the Real Property Valuation Graduate Program and subsequently coordinated the Institute of Land Administration at Bahir Dar University. Dr Belachew undertook consultancy research works for various public institutions, bilateral and multilateral organizations, NGOs, and regional organizations. Dr Belachew authored three textbooks and a number of articles in local and international journals.
