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.
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.
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.
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.
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