World Bank Land Conference 2024: Land Policies for Resilient and Equitable Growth in Africa

Land institutions and policies will be critical to help African countries respond to challenges of climate change, urban expansion, structural transformation, and gender equality. Together, they affect urban dwellers’ ability to access productive jobs, live in decent housing, and breathe clean air; farmers’ and women entrepreneurs’ capacity to insure against shocks, increase productivity, and diversify income sources; and governments’ ability to plan, tax property to provide services, and manage public land in a way that provides sustained local benefits by attracting investment, including via climate finance. Yet, many African land registries command little trust due to poor performance and wealth bias in service delivery. Land Policies for Resilient and Equitable Growth in Africa draws on a wealth of data, examples, and studies from Africa and beyond to show that regulatory and institutional reforms can harness this potential by improving quality, coverage, usefulness, and sustainability of documented land rights. In doing so, these reforms create the informational foundation for sectoral policies to support job growth, structural transformation, and climate resilience. Launch Program | Monday May 13, 3:30 - 5:00pm EDT Opening Remarks Victoria Kwakwa, Regional Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa, World Bank Moderation & Concluding Remarks Indermit Gill, Chief Economist & Senior Vice President for Development Economics, World Bank Land Policies for Resilient & Equitable Growth in Africa Klaus Deininger, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank Aparajita Goyal, Lead Economist, Africa Region Chief Economist’s Office, World Bank Land as an Enabler for Agenda 2063: The Africa Union’s Land Governance Strategy Janet Edeme, Head, African Union Commission, Addis Ababa Lessons from Rwanda’s Land Tenure Regularization & RCMRD’s Role in Mainstreaming Them Emmanuel Nkurunziza, Director Regional Center for Mapping and Resource Development, Nairobi Improving Tax Administration at the City Level: Lessons from Dakar Serigne Fall, Direction Générale des Impôts et Domaines du Sénégal, Senegal Opportunities to Increase Property Tax Revenues in Nigeria Taiwo Oyedele, Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Nigeria Decentralization, Digitization, & Customary Tenure Recognition: Malawi’s Land Reform Agenda Devie Chilonga, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Lands, Malawi Discussion – Q&A More about this event: https://www.worldbank.org/en/research... Report: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/e... Subscribe to this channel: http://bit.ly/3tu3ygO