Workshop on: Pro-poor Land Governance: Opportunities for Concerted Action
17-19 January 2007 Oslo, Norway. The workshop gathered experts from multilateral agencies, bilateral development agencies, research and academic institutions and civil society organizations to discuss and identify the characteristics of pro-poor and gender-sensitive land governance and what inter-agency cooperation modalities may work at country level.
 Workshop report
Individual Presentations
- An Introduction to Land and Democratic Governance, Bjørn Førde (Director, UNDP OGC)
- UNDP/Bureau for Development Policy Land Governance Reform Cross Practice Initiative: Results and Initial Analysis, Eric Patrick Mylene Kamara (Policy Specialist and Consultant, UNDP DDC)
- Targeting Land Governance Issues to Fight Poverty: the Case of Benin, Jean Jacob Sahou (Programme Officer, UNDP Benin)
- FAO work on Good Governance in Land Tenure and Land Administration, Paul Mathieu, (Senior Officer, Land Tenure Regimes Land Tenure Services, FAO)
- Land Governance: Issues and Perspectives from UN-Habitat, Szilard Fricska (Co-ordinator, Global Campaign for Secure Tenure, UN-Habitat)
- IFAD Perspectives on Land Tenure Security for Poverty Reduction, Harold Liversage, (Land Tenure Programme Manager, Eastern and Southern Africa Division, IFAD)
- Beyond Tokenism: Land Governance and Human Rights-COHRE perspectives, Malcolm Langford, (Legal Officer/Kenya Housing Project Coordinator, Centre of Housing Rights and Evictions)
- Civil Society Perspectives on Land Governance, Elin Enge, (Advisor on Land and Resources Rights, Norwegian People’s Aid)
- Natural Resource Tenure- a Sida Position Paper (in progress), Margareta Nilsson, (Programme Officer Division for Rural Development, Department for Natural Resources and the Environment, Sida)
- Land as a Human Rights Issue: experiences from a tenure reform process in South Africa, Poul Wisborg, (Associate Professor, Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
- Go Home and Clear the Conflict: Gender Perspectives on Human Rights and Land Titling, Ingunn Ikdahl (Research Fellow, Institute for Women’s Law University of Oslo)
- Redistributive Land Reform and the Rural Poor: a Critique and Contribution From the Philippines, Saturnino Borras Jr., (Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies, St. Mary’s University of Halifax)
- Can Land Registration Work for the Poor? Lessons from Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique, Lorenzo Cotula, (Research Associate, Institute for Environment and Development, IIED)
- The work of the Centre for Property Rights and Development, Helge Onsrud, (Director, Centre for Property Rights and Development of the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority)
- SADC Regional Land Reform Technical Support Facility, Verity Nyagah, (Regional Team Leader, UNDP Drylands Development Centre)
- The Gulf between Policy and Reality in South Africa’s Land Redistribution, Michael Aliber, Programme Research Director (Urban, Rural and Economic Development Research Programme Human Sciences Research Council HSRC of South Africa)
- Governance Indicators Project: Methodologies and Stakeholder Involvement, Noha El-Mikawy and Alexandra Wilde (Governance and Poverty Reduction Adviser and Governance Specialist, UNDP OGC)
Disclaimer: The views expressed in these presentations are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their organizations, the United Nations, including UNDP, or UN Member States
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