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Australian (ACFID) Shelter Reference Group’s Annual Shelter Forum 2014

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The second ACFID SRG Shelter Forum was hosted by Habitat for Humanity Australia on Friday 11th April 2014. The 2014 Shelter Forum explored issues surrounding land tenure insecurity in the Asia Pacific region. A pdf report summarizing the forum is available here (Final Report 2014) while the audio recordings of each of the sessions are below.

Keynote Presentation
  • Professor Daniel Fitzpatrick: Trends and Challenges in Urban Land Tenure in Asia Pacific: Its Impact on Global Housing Crisis
Presenters
  • Victoria Stodart: Housing Land and Property Issues in the Philippines (Typhoon Haiyan)
  • Professor Daniel Fitzpatrick: Addressing land issues after a disaster
  • Iv Bonnakar: Testing the Urban Land Law in Battambang, Cambodia
  • Aruna Paul: Rural and Urban Challenges in Land Security in Nepal
  • Johanna Brugman: Community Mapping and Surveying in Cambodia
  • Ruth Kestermann: Urban Resiliency Framework in Bangladesh
  • Luke Millar: Overview of working paper on Land Tenure Insecurity in Asia Pacific
1. Welcome

2. Prof Daniel Fitzpatrick: Keynote Address 

3. Victoria Stodart: Housing Land and Property Issues in the Philippines (Typhoon Haiyan) 

4. Prof Danial Fitzpatrick: Addressing land issues after a disaster

5. Iv Bonnakar: Testing the Urban Land Law in Battambang, Cambodia

6. Aruna Paul: Rural and Urban Challenges in Land Security in Nepal

7. Johanna Brugman: Community Mapping and Surveying in Cambodia

8. Ruth Kestermann: Urban Resiliency Framework in Bangladesh

9. Luke Millar: Overview of working paper on Land Tenure Insecurity in Asia Pacific

10. Group Exercise

11. Bernadette Bolo-Duthy: Closing Remarks

Australian (ACFID) Shelter Reference Group’s Annual Shelter Forum 2014

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You’re invited!

Members of the Shelter Reference Group invite you to forum on

Land Tenure Insecurity: The Impact on the Global Housing Crisis

The Shelter Forum will discuss the importance of land tenure security in a time of housing crises in the developing world. The forum facilitates sharing lessons and experiences as well as hearing from experts.

Keynote Speaker: The Shelter Forum welcomes Professor Daniel Fitzpatrick from Australian National University as keynote speaker for the day. Professor Fitzpatrick will provide an overview on trends in land insecurity globally with a special focus on the Asia Pacific region.

Professor Fitzpatrick writes on property rights in a development context. In 2007 he won the Hart Article Prize from the UK Socio-Legal Association. He has extensive experience in the public policy of property rights and development. He was the UN’s land rights adviser in post-conflict East Timor (2000) and post-tsunami Aceh (2005-6). He is the primary author of the UN’s Land and Disasters: Guidance for Practitioners (2010). His work with AusAID includes co-authoring the 2008 Making Land Work report for its Pacific Land Program.

Date: Friday 11 April 2014
Time: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm (8.30 am registration)
Location: Y-Hotel, 5-11 Wentworth Ave, Sydney
Cost: Free

RSVP here by Friday 4 April. If you have already registered, please send this email around to your contacts!

For more information on the forum email the Habitat for Humanity International Programs team or call 1800 88 55 99.