15 Dec 2023
GRF high-level side event: Secure Housing, Land and Property rights – From emergency response to durable solutions
This event presents a tremendous opportunity for UN Member States and other actors to reflect on the strong human rights dimensions of secure access to housing and land for refugee and returnee men, women and children – with an outlook towards creating sustainable pathways to durable solutions and long-term development outcomes.
The event further serves as a key part of efforts geared toward inspiring renewed political will, resource mobilization and additional in-kind support for addressing tenure-related challenges among forcibly displaced populations and their host communities.
Recognizing the already compelling case for more predictable, equitable, and sustainable systems of response to the housing, land, and property challenges facing refugees, returnees, and their host communities, the programme seeks to build on this – drawing on the experiences of key State and non-state actors and bringing together a diverse and high-powered panel of speakers and discussants, whose contributions to this area of work standout as notable models and promising practices in our quest to bring displacement to end.
12 - 13 Dec 2023
3rd Land Governance and Societal Development Conference
The Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) together with the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in China and University of Bayreuth (UB) in Germany, with the usual support of the HSF Shandong office in China are in collaboration to host the 3rd Land Governance and Societal Development Conference.
Theme: Land and Societies in the context of Innovation, consolidation and revitalization.
The hybrid conference would convene on the following dates and times: 12th to 13th December 2023, from 8 am – 11 am German; 9 am – 12 pm Southern African Time; 3 pm – 6 pm Chinese time of each day.
The 2-day Conference will engage global stakeholders and further the discussion on land governance within societal development discourse to continue to diagnose and promote knowledge exchanges on societal concerns and explore solutions for improvements within the land sector in urban, peri-urban and rural areas.
Virtual and physical participation available.
19 - 20 Dec 2023
Fifth Arab Ministerial Forum on Housing and Urban Development
The Arab Forum for Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (AMFHUD) has been established as a biannual regional consultative mechanism on housing and sustainable urban development issues hosted by one of the Arab countries and organized in partnership with the Ministerial Council for Housing and Construction of the League of Arab States, relevant Ministries of the Arab member states and the technical support of UN-Habitat-ROAS.
The forum aims at discussing and presenting new Arab visions and finding innovative solutions and effective mechanisms to meet the current and emerging challenges at the urban, economic, social and environmental levels in the Arab world. The forum aims at spreading awareness about sustainable urban development, exchanging valuable experiences among Arab countries, and presenting leading initiatives to highlight best practices in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of housing and urban development plans and strategies.
The Fifth Arab Ministerial Forum on Housing and Urban Development will take place in Tripoli, Libya from 19-20 December 2023. Download the programme and the flyers for two GLTN sessions in English and Arabic.
Downloads:
Programme: Arab Ministerial Forum on Housing and Urban Development (English)
Programme: Arab Ministerial Forum on Housing and Urban Development (Arabic)
Session flyer: ‘Why is it so expensive to have a house?’ (English)
Session flyer: ‘Why is it so expensive to have a house?’ (Arabic)
Session flyer: Land Administration and Land Rights for peace and development in Libya (English)
Session flyer: Land Administration and Land Rights for peace and development in Libya (Arabic)
27 - 29 Feb 2024
FELA Workshop in Nepal
A three-day workshop on ‘Effective Land Administration in Nepal: Navigating Governance, Legal, and Financial Pathways within the Climate Change – Land Nexus’ is being organized as a collaborative effort of the Land Management Training Center of Government of Nepal, UN-Habitat, the Global Land Tool Network, and Kadaster International from 27 February 2024 to 29 February 2024 at the Land Management Training Center in Dhulikhel, Nepal.
This workshop aims to enhance the existing strengths and achievements in Nepal’s land administration. It will focus on exploring governance, legal, and financial pathways, with a particular emphasis on the nexus of climate change and land. The key areas of attention include securing land tenure, improving land use, and promoting climate action. Furthermore, the workshop will facilitate the capacity building of stakeholders and land administration staff and to instigate policy support in the sector of land management.
Participation in the workshop is anticipated from esteemed organizations, including the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, the relevant provincial land related ministry, academic/training institutions, as well as NGOs/ CBOs actively engaged in the land management sector.
23 - 27 Feb 2024
Asia Pacific regional workshop on Land Dispute Management and Land Conflict Monitoring
GLTN, through the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC), is organizing a 5-day workshop on Land Conflict Monitoring and Land Dispute Management from 23 – 27 February 2024 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The event will be divided into two thematic tracks:
a. Land Dispute Management Track: 23rd – 25th February 2024
b. Land Conflict Monitoring Track: 26th – 27th February 2024
24 - 26 Sep 2024
Joint International Conference on Geoinformation
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 (STDM)
5. Geoinformation Week 2024
6. Pre-conference Tutorial (23rd Sept) & Exhibition
The joint conference will feature technical sessions, pre-conference tutorials, exhibitions, and technical & social visits. You are cordially invited to share your recent works and experiences with others by presenting your technical papers.
All geoinformation related professionals, researchers, and students are encouraged to present and share their works at the upcoming international conference.
Call for Papers
This 5-in-1 conference encourages paper submissions in various aspects of geospatial domains especially within the scope of LADM, 3D Land Administration, FIG Commission 7 – UN-GGIM Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA), Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration (FFPLA), Women’s Access to Land (and administration), FIG Commission 5 – Standards, Quality Assurance and Calibration, 3D Reference Frames, Vertical Reference Frames, GNSS, Multi-Sensor-Systems, Cost Effective Positioning, Land administration Education, Digitally Integrated Land Administration (tenure) and Management (land use planning), Comparative Land Administration (and the future of the Cadastral Template).
The conference also covers Geomatics, Cadaster, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Real Estate, Valuation Information, Spatial Planning, 3D City Modelling, Digital Twins, Geospatial Science & Artificial Intelligence (AI). Other related disciplines within geospatial domain including Mapping Sciences, Hydrography, and Oceanography are also encouraged.
29 - 30 May 2024
Arab Land Initiative reference group meeting
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.
12 Jun 2025
First meeting of the Global Coalition for Social Justice
The Forum will mark a key moment for the Global Coalition for Social Justice, bringing together more than 370 partners, including governments, workers' and employers' organizations, development banks, NGOs, and academic institutions.
Since its launch in 2023, the Coalition has quickly become a dynamic platform for collective action to generate concrete impact on the ground.
3 - 5 Jul 2025
IOS Fair Transitions LANDac conference & summit
Building on the successful collaboration in last year’s Annual Conference, the IoS Fair Transitions Platform (UU) and LANDac are pleased to host a second joint Conference, which will have a somewhat different set-up from what you are used to and end with a Summit. We have made the selection for the panel sessions and round tables for the first two days. Building on your input, we will conclude on the last day with an experiment of democracy – a more-than human Summit. There will be limited hybrid options for participation in the Conference and the Summit.
4 - 8 Nov 2024
World Urban Forum 12 (WUF12)
The World Urban Forum (WUF) is the premier global conference on sustainable urbanization.
WUF was established in 2001 by the United Nations to examine one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies.
The first WUF was held in Nairobi, Kenya in 2002 and has been held around the world ever since.