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11th session of the Working Party on Land Administration

11th session of the Working Party on Land Administration

27 - 28 February 2019
Palais des Nations Geneva Switzerland

10 a.m. - Palais des Nations, Room XII

 

The Eleventh Session of the Working Party on Land Administration (WPLA) provided an international platform for a high-level exchange on issues related to land administration and management. At the Session on 27-28 February, representatives of the UNECE member States reviewed the work of the WPLA since the Tenth Session in 2017 and in 2018. It discussed how UNECE can continue to work to improve land management and land administration practices throughout its region. Also, the event incorporated the needs and priorities of land administration in the UNECE region in support of the 2030 Agenda and the New Urban Agenda.

The Session had simultaneous interpretation in English, French and Russian.

 

Side event: Measuring Progress in the Implementation of SDGs, the Role of Data and Statistics in Monitoring Land Administration and Management
Organized by the UNECE Working Party on Land Administration and UN Custodian Agencies for Land Indicators in the SDGs (UN-Habitat, FAO and the World Bank)

28 February 2019
Palais des Nations, Building A, Salle XII
14:30 -17:30

Documentation: WPLA 11th session

Draft programme      
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Official Documents - Title and symbol ENG FRE RUS
Revised provisional agenda
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2019/1/Rev.1
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Report of the WPLA 11th session
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2019/2
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Review of the programme of work for 2018 and 2019 and Report on the work of the Bureau of the Working Party
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2019/3
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Draft programme of work for 2020-2021
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2019/4
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Future Scenarios in Land Administration
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2019/5
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Land Consolidation: Legal Framework
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2019/6
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Draft technical guidelines on Informal Development: formalization of informal construction in the ECE Region
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2019/7
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Draft Terms of Reference of the Working Party on Land Administration for the period 2021-2025
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2019/8
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Information Documents ENG    
Fraud in Land Administration System
ECE/HBP/WP.7/Inf.1
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Survey on costs for registration/transfer of real estate and registration of mortgages for the ECE region
ECE/HBP/WP.7/Inf.2
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Presentations: Day 1, 27 February 2018 ENG FRE RUS
Decisions of the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management sessions
Gulnara Roll, UNECE
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Report on WPLA/EuroGeographics CLRKEN Joint Workshop in Lausanne, Switzerland on 21 April 2017
Daniel Steudler, Federal Office of Topography, Swisstopo, Switzerland
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Report on WPLA workshops: Common Vision Conference in Vienna, Austria (2017) and "My City, my Home, my Business" in Sofia, Bulgaria (2018)
Julius Ernst, BEV - Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Austria
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Report on WPLA workshop in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia (2018)
Rik Wouters, Kadaster International, the Netherlands and WPLA Bureau Vice-Chair
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Report on the Joint WPLA, FIG and TCG workshop in Athens, Greece (2018)
Chryssy Potsiou, FIGdaster and WPLA Bureau member
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WPLA REM Cooperation
Amie Figueiredo, UNECE
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Cooperation with other international organizations
Fredrik Zetterquist, WPLA Bureau Chair
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A framework on effective land administration
Kees de Zeeuw, Kadaster International, the Netherlands
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Land Administration Review - Republic of Belarus
Konstantin Litvintcev, ROSREESTR
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Land consollidation - study of narratives
Walter T. Vries, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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Preliminary findings of the Regional Study on Land Consolidation Legislation
Rik Wouters, WPLA Bureau Vice-Chair
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Formalization of Informal Real Estate
Chryssy Potsiou, WPLA Bureau member
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Future Scenarios for land Administration - a Status Report
Fredrik Zetterquist, WPLA Bureau Chair
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Preliminary results from the Land Administration Cost Study
Paul van Asperen, University of Twente
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Fraud in Land Administration
Victoria Abbott, Her Majesty's Land Registry for England and Wales, United Kingdom
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Futurology supporting decision-making for Land Administration - experiences from Finland
Kirsikka Riekkinen, Aalto University and National Land Survey of Finland
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Integration of the cadastre and land registry with other key registers
Ms. Angela Matcov, State enterprise Cadastru, Republic of Moldova
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Federal Service for state registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr) - main achievements 2017-2018
Konstantin Litvintcev, Rosreestr, Russian Federation
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Lantmäteriet - pushing the boundaries
Mats Snäll, Lantmäteriet (The Swedish Mapping, Cadaster and Land Registration Agency)

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Land registration and cadastre information through the analysis of business intelligence in Turkey
Sedat Bakici, General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre (GDLRC), Turkey
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Land registries enabling change in the property market
Mark Harlow, Her Majesty's Land Registry for England and Wales, United Kingdom
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Presentations: Day 2, 28 February 2019 ENG FRE RUS
Complex social change requires simple and stable land-management rules
Edwin Buitelaar, Planning Bureau for the Environment, The Netherlands
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Towards e-government in land administration of Ukraine
Denis Bashlyk, State Service for Geodesy, Cartography, and Cadastre, Ukraine
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Monitoring land in the SDGs towards evidence based policy decisions; mapping out opportunities and synergies
Everlyne Nairesiae, UN-Habitat
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Secure Tenure for all by 2030; Is it happening?
Mika Törhönen, The World Bank
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Prindex: measuring global perceptions of land and property rights
Anna Locke, Prindex
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New Urban Agenda - not in my backyard or yes, in my backyard
Walter de Vries, Technical University of Munich
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Documentation: side event

Draft programme      
Report of the side event      
Presentations ENG    

The SDGs and FIG
Rudolf Staiger, FIG

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Assisting UNECE countries to measure and monitor the SDGs
Steven Vale, UNECE
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Norwegian support to the land sector in Kyrgyzstan
Elena Busch, Norwegian Mapping Authority
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Overview on the process and milestones achieved towards monitoring 1.4.2 and 5.a.1 land indicators in the SDGs
Robert Ndugwa, UN-Habitat
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Harmonizing data collection for 1.4.2 and 5.1.1 land tenure indicators
Custodians (Sydney Gourlay - World Bank, Robert Ndugwa - UN-Habitat, Yonca Gurbuzer - FAO)
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