The World Bank Land Conference 2024

The World Bank Land Conference will be taking place 13-17 May 2024 at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC after a hiatus.

The GLTN will be supporting several sessions throughout the conference covering various topics such as land administration, tenure and crisis, urbanization, climate and disasters and women’s rights. More information.

FIG Regional Conference 2024

The main objective of the event is to build knowledge and capacity in the Asian region to address climate change and disaster-induced challenges in safeguarding land rights of vulnerable communities, emphasizing the critical role of land governance and disaster resilience.

The second objective is to foster collaborative partnerships among national and regional institutions, academics, and professionals from various organisations, including non-state actors, Non-Government Organisation (NGOs) and private sector, to facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogues, knowledge sharing and technology transfer at the regional level.

FIG Regional Conference 2024

The main objective of the event is to build knowledge and capacity in the Asian region to address climate change and disaster-induced challenges in safeguarding land rights of vulnerable communities, emphasizing the critical role of land governance and disaster resilience.

The second objective is to foster collaborative partnerships among national and regional institutions, academics, and professionals from various organisations, including non-state actors, Non-Government Organisation (NGOs) and private sector, to facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogues, knowledge sharing and technology transfer at the regional level.

4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD)

The conference will explore opportunity to raise the profile of land and property as sources of revenue and means for wealth redistribution.
The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), through its Financing for Sustainable Development Office, and the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) will support the Conference and its preparatory process.

2nd World Social Summit

This summit will address gaps and recommit to the principles outlined in the 1995 Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action and give momentum towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

UNCCD COP16

The Conference of the Parties (COP) was established by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as its main decision-making body. The COP has been meeting biennially since 2001 and has held 14 sessions. UNCCD COP15 was held from 9-20 May 2022 in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The next COP, UNCCD COP16, will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2024.

World Urban Forum 12 (WUF12)

The World Urban Forum (WUF) is the premier global conference on sustainable urbanization. The WUF12, convened by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), will take place in Cairo, Egypt.
This will be the first time in over 20 years, the forum is returning to the African continent, and it is the first time that it will be held in a megacity.
The deadline for application to partner-led events is 22 April 2024.
The deadline for application to the Urban Cinema is 30 May 2024.
The application for Urban Expo will close on 31 July 2024 (at 23:59 UTC+03:00).

Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Working Group on Adequate Housing for All

3rd Arab Land Conference

IOS Fair Transitions LANDac conference & summit

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