This 15th annual Conference on Land and Poverty will address the theme, 'Integrating Land Governance into the Post-2015 Agenda: Harnessing Synergies for Implementation and Monitoring Impact,' and echo other global conferences that have featured discussions about making land tenure and property rights a central theme of a global post-2015 development agenda. The Conference will consider the thematic areas of: securing and protecting land rights from a gender perspective; managing urban landscapes; attracting responsible land-based investment for local benefits and common resource management; maximizing benefits from spatial data; strengthening country level institutions; fostering transparency in land ownership, use and administration; and research on key aspects of land governance.  

dates: 24-27 March 2014   venue: World Bank headquarters   location: Washington D.C., US   e-mail: landconference@worldbank.org   www: http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPROGRAMS/EXTIE/0,,contentMDK:23467358~pagePK:64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:475520,00.html