President Elect Stig Enemark visits the World Bank and
attends the workshop on “Land Policies & Legal Empowerment of the Poor”
31 October – 3 November 2006, World Bank Headquarters,
Washington D.C., USA
President Elect Stig Enemark visited the World Bank, the Land
Thematic Group, 31 October – 1 November 2006, to discuss about the future
FIG/WB relations. The objective was to develop a more formal memorandum of
understanding between FIG and the World Bank Thematic Group that will spell
out the common areas of interest and present the intended future areas of
cooperation.
President Elect Stig Enemark met with the representatives of the Land
Thematic Group: Klaus Deininger, Malcolm Childress, Core
Shaw, Wael Zakout, Ed Cook, and others, including Keith
Bell on telephone line from Bangkok.
At the meeting 31 October Stig Enemark gave a presentation on the FIG
profile and the intended increased and more formalized cooperation with the
World Bank Thematic Group. The presentation was based on ideas for future
cooperation as developed between Stig Enemark and Keith Bell over last
couple of years. It is now intended to make this a formalized policy as a
part of the FIG Council work plan 2007-2010. During the discussions
following the presentation it was agreed that a more formalized cooperation
should be established for the benefit of both parties. It was also agreed to
aim at having a high level joint conference in Oct/Nov 2008 addressing the
contributions of both parties to the achieving the Millennium Development
Goals. A draft for a MoU between FIG and the World Bank will be developed
for adoption at the FIG Working Week in Hong Kong SAR, May 2007.
The workshop on “Land policies & Legal Empowerment of the Poor”
was coordinated by Klaus Deininger, the World Bank Land Thematic Group.
About 80 key experts were invited from throughout the word.
The workshop commenced with a panel session chaired by Ms. Ana Palacio,
Senior Vice-President and Group General Council, WB. The session included
seven key presentations from:
- N. Singh, Executive, Commission for Legal empowerment of the
Poor
- J. Kagwanja, .Economic Commission for Africa
- A. de Janvry, Co-director, World Development Report 2008
- M. Urioste, Internatiocional Land Coalation & Fundacion Tierra,
Bolivia
- C. Augustinus, Chief, Land Tenure Section, UN-Habitat
- V. Evtimov, Project Co-ordinator, Support to HCLP Project
- S. Enemark, President Elect, International Federation of
Surveyors
The workshop further included nine sessions with about 25 papers. The
sessions were structured around issues such as:
- Land Administration and Good Governance
- The Role of Land in (Post) Conflict
- Improving Tenure Security: Challenges and Potential Impact
- Functioning and Performance of Land Markets: New Analytical Insights
- Approaches to Improving Land Administration
- Evaluating Land-Related Interventions: Applying Methodology to
Practice
- Towards a Set of Global Land Tenure Indicators
- Linking Land Policy to Private Sector Development
- Lessons Learnt and Next Steps
Papers and presentations are available at the World Bank website on:
www.worldbank.org/landpolicies2006
As stated by Klaus Deininger “… the workshop highlighted the magnitude
of the challenges, and also demonstrated that there is a highly diverse,
experienced, and committed network of professionals who care about land
policy and administration and work actively on it - and that by joining
forces and sharing experiences, we can utilize significant synergies.”
Further reading:
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Stig Enemark together with Klaus Deininger and
Malcolm
Childress from the World Bank. |
The Globe at the World Bank headquarters.
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Impressions from Washington DC. |
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