News in 2019
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World Bank Collaboration: Overviewing FIG engagement for effective,
and to enhance Partnership working 2018-2019
June 2019
World Bank HQ, Washington D.C., USA
The World Bank remains a key FIG strategic partner underpinned by
regular collaborative activities on World Bank (WB) platforms.
This report highlights FIG Council’s collaborative efforts over the past
nine months, first with Vice President Diane Dumashie attendance to an
EGM on Public Private Partnerships, next a meeting by President
Rudolf
Staiger and Vice Presidents Diane Dumashie and
Orhan Ercan with Senior
WB representatives to continue the Memorandum of Understanding for the
upcoming FIG term, third attendance at the WB Lands conference and the
FIG masterclass, and finally the FIG Working week 2019, held in Hanoi,
Vietnam.
1. Public Private Partnership’s (PPP), October 8th 2018
Vice President Diane Dumashie was invited to the first round of global
consultations on PPP in land administration, organised by the WB and
held in partnership with the Dubai Land department.
The WB is keen to explore if PPP approaches that are successfully found
in several infrastructure sectors could beneficially be rolled out in
emerging economies. PPP contracts for land registration
e-governance systems have been implemented in some advanced economies,
such as Canada and Australia. It is timely to explore if
developing economies may also modernise their land registration systems
though PPP and financing from the private sector.
Accordingly Land Equity International have been commissioned to
lead a consortium to assess existing experiences and draw lessons and
develop an analytical and operational framework that could guide
countries to think through the potential opportunities, benefits and
risks of such an approach.
Several consultations have been convened around the world, with the
objective to overview the framework, identify the benefits as well as
risks of a PPP solution and ultimately understand the public sector and
private sector capacity needs to develop PPP solutions that are pro-poor
and deliver solutions to all citizens.
The deliberations began with opening remarks from the host’s, the Dubai
Land Department, the opening address was from Anna Wellenstein (World
Bank), and thereafter framing the consultations we heard from Wael
Zakout and Aanchal Anand, (World Bank), with lively discussion
facilitated by Tony Burns, (Land Equity international) and the
consortium.
Diane Dumashie, drawing on her background experience in PPP’s (as
government client representative on service and property PPP’s)
concludes that that PPP for land administration initiative has the
opportunity to be truly innovative; but this means having to design
something that is different to the ‘standard’ PPP process, which of
course means the financers will also have to adapt to new business
models and indeed may not be the traditional PPP funders!
Several consultations have been convened; the latest at the time of
writing was March 2019 at the World bank lands conference. Further
details are at www.landPPP.org
2. The World Bank Annual Lands Conference on Land and Poverty 2019
- Washington DC
World Bank iconic globe in the Head Quarter Lobby,
The World Bank annual land conference was held in Washington DC on 25
-29th March 2019. Attending were President Rudolf Staiger, Vice
Presidents Diane Dumashie and Orhan Ercan who took the opportunity to
strengthen the partnership between FIG and the WB, by holding a meeting
prior to the start of the conference.
The meeting organised by Mika-Petteri Torhonen, lead land administration
specialist involved key people from the World Bank Global Land Policy
and Geospatial Unit, including Wael Zakout, Sr. Technical Advisor,
Global Lead, Victoria Stanley, Senior Land Administration Specialist,
Kathrine M. Kelm, senior land administration specialist.
The purpose of the meeting was to review and renew the Memorandum of
Understanding, in particular seeking to identify specific outputs that
could be delivered over the current term. Of particular interests
for future cooperation are issues around: 2030 agenda, meeting the
SDG’s, building sustainable land administration systems via technology
and increasing capacity, the imperative to speed up land administration
and remain cost effective (FFP), increasing effectiveness of Government/
donor financing, (via PPP), Land rights of Women, indigenous and
displaced peoples, WB initiative on geospatial and 3 D Cadastre on
boundaries. The MoU will now be revised accordingly.
The opening of the 20th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and
Poverty, focused on the theme: Catalyzing Innovation. Around this
theme the conference presents the latest research and innovations in
policies and good practice on land governance around the world. This
conference has become one of the largest international events on land
governance, attracting over 1,500 participants from governments,
academics, civil society, and the private sector. The week is a
full and packed agenda, with numerous pre and Post conference
activities, poster sessions, Plenary presentations, parallel session,
all as indicated in the schematic below,
The FIG family is very well represented, with Vice President
Orhan Ercan
delivering a paper, Vice President Diane Dumashie organising and
facilitating a masterclass (see below), and above all, President Rudolf
Staiger, as part of a panel of ten, providing his flash-thoughts in the
closing ceremony. Many other familiar faces are also at this lands
conference and contributing to building the World Bank collaboration,
including FIG Commission chairs, Daniel Paez (Comm 7) and
Angela
Etuonovbe (former Comm 4), Steven Nystrom (former Comm 9) amongst many
others.
View of World Bank Atrium |
Angela & Eugene Etuonovbe with Janet Edem and other Africa Union
Representatives |
President Rudolf Staiger at the closing |
As always our thanks gores to the two lead people Klaus Deininger is a
Lead Economist in in the Agriculture and Rural Development Team of the
World Bank's Development Research Group and Thea Hilhorst, Senior Land
Governance Specialist in the Development Research Group, both pictured
below
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Klaus Deininger
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Thea Hilhorst
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All the papers may be seen on the WB website, at
https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2019/sessions.php
Importantly an additional platform organised by Vice President Diane
Dumashie in partnership with RICS (James Kavanagh), was the FIG
Masterclass: The SDGs and the Role of the Land Professional as a Global
Agent for Social & Economic Change.
We are familiar with land issues being firmly embedded within the
Sustainable Development Goals and the UN–Habitat III New Urban Agenda,
with this in mind, Institutional innovation and participation by the
land professions and private sector is important. This
masterclass, dubbed as a learning exchange was facilitated by Diane
Dumashie, and provided an interactive dialogue aiming to demonstrate,
deliberate and articulate how private sector land professionals can
actively interact with the SDG framework. The presentation will inform
the FIG Task Force on SDGs (led by Paula Dijkstra) to be launched at the
FIG 2019 WW in Hanoi.
Statements and presentations were provided
by:
- Mr. James Kavanagh,
Lands Director - Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), UK
- Mr. Kees de Zeeuw,
Director - Kadaster International, co-chair UNGGIM Working Group on Land
Administration and Management, the Netherlands
- Mr Kabir, M. M,
Surveyors Council of Nigeria (SURCON). Nigeria
- Mr. John Kedar,
Director International Engagement, Ordnance Survey, UK
- Ms. Stephanie Michaud,
Portfolio Manager, Land Administration Division, Trimble USA
3. The World Bank at FIG 2019 Working Week Hanoi
To round off the last nine months, Mika-Petteri Torhonen and
Kathrine
Kelm participated in the FIG 2019 Working Week. Mika provided a
Key note in the opening, and on subsequent days, collaboratively special
sessions were organised by WB and FIG to discuss:
- First, Integrated Geospatial information frameworks (IGIF). This focused
on the integrated geo-spatial information framework and presenting the
framework endorsed by UN GGIM committee of experts in August 2018, a
lively dialogue facilitated by Katherine Kelm.
- Second, Roundtable discussion on Land Records Completion and
Modernisation, with reference to the Asia region , this considered
modernising land administration systems through digitalisation, online
access, interlinking automation, electronic services and innovation.
All the working week papers can be seen at
http://www.fig.net/fig2019/technical_program.htm
Finally, FIG members look forward to continuing our exciting, engagement
and effective partnership with the World Bank team, ensuring we
collaborate throughout this term and beyond.
Diane Dumashie
FIG Vice President
June 2019
