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When: Wednesday, May 31 – Thursday, June 1, 2017
Where: New America, 740 15th St., N.W. Washington, DC 20005
A new series of ISS case studies profiles recent initiatives to strengthen tenure security and reform land registration systems: South Africa, Canada, Jamaica, Australia, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Kyrgyzstan.
Click here for a compilation of the full case studies: ISS-Land-Cases
Marking the launch of this series, ISS has teamed up with New America on a two-day workshop to highlight key lessons and provoke thinking about implications for property rights innovations around the world.
Wednesday, May 31 - Day 1 features TED-style presentations from the case protagonists—the people who actually led the reforms—as well as an expert panel discussion about new practices and technologies in land and property rights.
(Day 1 will be live-streamed.)
Thursday, June 1 - Day 2 brings together a group of educators and practitioners to build a global network around property rights case teaching and development.
Speakers:
- Elizabeth Stair, CEO, National Land Agency (Jamaica)
- Elgin Farewell, President & CEO, Teranet Inc. (Ontario, Canada)
- Jodi Cant, CEO, Landgate (Western Australia)
- David Mayson, Managing Director, Phulisani NPC (Western Cape, South Africa)
- Kathryn Ewing, Director, Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (Cape Town, South Africa)
- Emídio de Oliviera Noormahomed, Executive Director, Cooperativa para Terras Comunitárias (Mozambique)
- Grenville Barnes, Professor of Geomatics, University of Florida
- Noel Taylor, Co-founder & former CEO, Cadasta
- Chris Jochnick, CEO, Landesa
- Nana Ama Yirrah, Executive Director, COLANDEF
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Monwabisi Park, on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. Photo courtesy of the Violence Prevention
through Urban Upgrading program.
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