Events Calendar

World Bank Land Conference 2024

Start date: May 13, 2024
End date: May 17, 2024
All-day event
Location: Washington DC
Conference
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The Conference is the premier forum for the land sector, bringing together participants from governments, development partners, civil society, academia, and the private sector to showcase research, discuss issues and good practice, and inform policy dialogue. Theme: “Securing Land Tenure and Access for Climate Action.”
The 2024 Conference aims to highlight effective strategies for securing land tenure and access in support of climate change mitigation and adaption. Four sub-themes: Securing Tenure for Sustainability; Land Technologies for Green Growth; Land Administration for Climate Action and Disaster Resilience; and, Land Administration Amid Rapid Urbanization.

FIG Working Week 2024, Accra, Ghana

Start date: May 19, 2024
End date: May 24, 2024
All-day event
Working Week
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With the theme: “Your World, Our World: Resilient Environment and Sustainable Resource Management for All”, the conference will focus on how geospatial technologies and innovations as well as connectivity become major tools in ensuring resilient environment and sustainable natural resource management for all.

Arab Land Initiative reference group meeting

Start date: May 29, 2024
End date: May 30, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Workshop

The meeting will aim at consolidating the priorities and planning the work of the Arab Land Initiative, in accordance with the regional and countries priorities and with the activities to be conducted during the Phase 2 of the BMZ-funded Arab Land Programme.

First meeting of the Global Coalition for Social Justice

Date: June 13, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Platform

This is an ILO-convened multistakeholder coalition whose partners convene annually, either remotely or in person, to discuss thematic issues, share best practices, and facilitate knowledge exchange. The meeting may have relevance to tenure security.

IOS Fair Transitions LANDac conference & summit

Start date: July 3, 2024
End date: July 5, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Conference

Topic: ‘Land governance and the politics of fair transitions: Deepening the search for social justice’.
The themes of the conference and summit are:
• Carbon colonialism: A new scramble for Africa (and beyond)?
• Safeguards and the defense of rights
• Justice as restoring, re-claiming, re-commoning
• Building more-than-human solidarities in the search for social justice
• Ecocide and social justice
• The politics of knowledge and the politics of representation

Summit of the Future

Start date: September 23, 2024
End date: September 24, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: New York, USA
Conference

Theme: Summit of the Future: Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow The high-level event will bring together UN Member States, UN agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), academic institutions, the private sector, and youth. The Summit aims to forge a new global consensus on what our future should look like, and what we […]

Joint International Conference on Geoinformation

Start date: September 24, 2024
End date: September 26, 2024
All-day event
Location: Sarawak, Malaysia
Conference
Joint International Conference Malaysia

A joint international conference on geoinformation will be held 24-26 September 2024 in Kuching City, Sarawak, Malaysia. The joint conference comprises of the following: 1. FIG Commission 5 Annual Meeting 2. FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting 3. FIG Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) & 3D Land Administration (LA) 4. UN Habitat Social Tenure Domain Model […]

Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Working Group on Adequate Housing for All

Start date: October 1, 2024
End date: October 2, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Exact date in October and venue to be determined
Workshop

UN-Habitat established first universal forum on adequate housing. Tenure security will certainly be an element of the agenda. Possible that land use management might be as well.

World Urban Forum 12 (WUF12)

Start date: November 4, 2024
End date: November 8, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Forum
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The World Urban Forum (WUF) is the premier global conference on sustainable urbanization. The WUF12, convened by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), will take place in Cairo, Egypt.
This will be the first time in over 20 years, the forum is returning to the African continent, and it is the first time that it will be held in a megacity.
The deadline for application to partner-led events is 22 April 2024.
The deadline for application to the Urban Cinema is 30 May 2024.
The application for Urban Expo will close on 31 July 2024 (at 23:59 UTC+03:00).

UNCCD COP16

Start date: December 2, 2024
End date: December 13, 2024
All-day event
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Conference
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The Conference of the Parties (COP) was established by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as its main decision-making body. The COP has been meeting biennially since 2001 and has held 14 sessions. UNCCD COP15 was held from 9-20 May 2022 in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The next COP, UNCCD COP16, will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2024.

UNCCD COP16

Start date: December 2, 2024
End date: December 13, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Saudi Arabia
Conference

The Conference of the Parties (COP) was established by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as its main decision-making body. The COP has been meeting biennially since 2001 and has held 14 sessions. UNCCD COP15 was held from 9-20 May 2022 in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The next COP, UNCCD COP16, will take place […]

3rd Arab Land Conference

Start date: December 31, 2024
End date: January 1, 2025
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Undetermined
Conference

This third conference will be held in late 2024 or early 2025 at a venue to be decided. The first conference was held in 2018 (Dubai/UAE) and the second conference in 2021 (Cairo/Egypt). Awaiting final confirmation of hosts, dates and venue.

2nd World Social Summit

Date: February 11, 2025
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Exact dates and venues to be determined
Conference

This summit will address gaps and recommit to the principles outlined in the 1995 Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action and give momentum towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD)

Start date: June 30, 2025
End date: July 3, 2025
All-day event
Location: Spain
Conference

The conference will explore opportunity to raise the profile of land and property as sources of revenue and means for wealth redistribution.
The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), through its Financing for Sustainable Development Office, and the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) will support the Conference and its preparatory process.