The World Bank’s 17th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty took place from March 14 to 18, 2016 at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C. The conference theme is Scaling up Responsible Land Governance and paid special attention to working at scale, mainstreaming innovations and sustaining investments for greater impact.
Sessions comprising select papers and debates on important innovations and policy issues ran concurrently on March 15-17, together with poster presentations. A 2016 Innovations Fair featuring how innovations in technology and open data can help improve land governance at scale was held all day on Monday, March 14 and half day on Tuesday, March 15. A post-conference learning day with Master Classes was held on March 18 and offered hands-on classes to familiarize participants with cutting edge tools and techniques developed to help policy makers. All session descriptions and papers have been published in the online agenda with some sessions having simultaneous translation and being livestreamed on the conference website.
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