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FIG Regional Conference 2024 will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal
14-16 November, 2024, Kathmandu, Nepal
On 14-16 November 2024 FIG Regional Conference will be held in
Kathmandu, Nepal with the overall theme:
Climate Responsive Land Governance and Disaster Resilience:
Safeguarding Land Rights
and with a special focus on the region.
The local host is Nepal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
(NICS)
The main objective of the event is to build knowledge and capacity in
the Asian region to address climate change and disaster-induced
challenges in safeguarding land rights of vulnerable communities,
emphasizing the critical role of land governance and disaster
resilience.
The second objective is to foster collaborative partnerships among
national and regional institutions, academics, and professionals from
various organisations, including non-state actors, Non-Government
Organisation (NGOs) and private sector, to facilitate multistakeholder
dialogues, knowledge sharing and technology transfer at the regional
level.
VISION FOR THE CONFERENCE
The climate crisis represents the single greatest challenge humankind
faces to ensure our planet remains sustainable and our people remain
resilient. The UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is
universal, transformative, and rights-based. It is an ambitious plan of
action that inspires global society to think creatively and critically
rethink the way we approach the development challenges of today.This
theme underpins the FIG Council’s vision of sustainability over the term
2023- 2026. additionally, FIG provides a platform to raise awareness,
inform and inspire the FIG community on the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.
Because of the importance of climate change to the global community
and the 2030 Agenda, FIG wishes to examine and actively promote the
engagement and role that surveyors and land practitioners can play in
contributing to the climate change agenda and the achievement of the
Sustainable Development Goals. FIG wishes to lead its members so that
they can fully understand, articulate and use their expertise and
knowledge to tackle the important challenges in climate action.
This Regional Conference for Asia is intended to be a major milestone
in achieving the FIG vision. The NICS, as an FIG Member Association,
will support the achievement of this milestone with reference to the
Asia region. The Regional Conference is intended to help meet a range of
climate challenges in the region such as greenhouse gas
emissions/carbon, biodiversity loss, deforestation and large-scale land
use change, urban sprawl into agricultural land, water scarcity, and
more, considering the safeguarding of the land rights of vulnerable
communities. The event also contributes to the responsibility of FIG
towards achieving the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. The expertise of FIG
Members in the Asian region means they are well positioned to make a
major contribution to addressing a wide range of land and water related
climate change challenges.
Surveyors and land practitioners are in the critical path of the
sustainability of the planet because of their work on security of
tenure, land governance, geospatial information management, land
administration and land management, spatial planning and valuation, BIM
and so on. Future generations in the Asia region face an uncertain
outlook characterized by an increasingly hostile climate and poorly
managed natural disasters. Surveyors and land practitioners in the Asia
region, with their critically important skills and knowledge, need to
contribute to addressing the climate crisis challenges. The primary aim
of this Regional Conference for Asia is to address the pressing
challenges posed by climate challenges and disasters and their impacts
in the region, with a focus on the vital role of effective land
governance and resilience. There is an imperative need to share
international and regional knowledge and best practices. The Regional
Conference is an opportunity for learning, sharing knowledge, providing
practical knowledge and actionable recommendations about how surveyors
and land practitioners can address climate and disaster in the region,
also for vulnerable communities. This will be done through a focus on 4
thematic areas 1) Climate responsive land governance 2) Natural disaster
resilience for communities, professionals and organizations 3)
Cooperation and partnerships to safeguard land rights 4) Capacity
development for communities, professionals and organizations (see below
for more details and the program below).
THEME
Climate Responsive Land Governance and Disaster Resilience:
Safeguarding Land Rights
TOPICS
- Climate Responsive Land Governance
- Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA),
Innovative land administration approaches, Global land and
environmental frameworks
- Safeguarding land rights of women, youth, vulnerable
communities, indigenous people and informal settlers
- Climate responsive fit-for-purpose land administration
(FFPLA), including land use/spatial planning, including through
consultative, inclusive, gender responsive and participatory
approaches
- Land and property valuation for risk management, and
non-market and ecological purposes (registered and unregistered
land and natural accounting)
- State/public land and buildings management to achieve
environmental goals and support vulnerable groups (cities, urban
and rural)
- Natural disaster resilience for communities, professionals and
organizations
- Disaster resilience to protect security of tenure of women,
youth, vulnerable communities, indigenous people and informal
settlers
- Adapting land use planning, land administration systems and
SDI/LIS for disaster, including through consultative, inclusive,
gender responsive and participatory approaches
- Using spatial data and technology for climate action
planning and assessing disaster vulnerability, risk and tenure
insecurity before and after disaster
- Disaster recovery and reconstruction, including affordable
housing and tenure security, participatory slum upgrading,
resettlement, food security, infrastructure, risk insurance
- Cooperation and partnerships to safeguard land rights
- 2030 Agenda and Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
together
- Regional Cooperation in addressing land-climate nexus issues
and disaster management
- Partnerships across the region, governments, academia, and
civil society
- Capacity Development for communities, professionals and
organisations
- Empowering climate and disaster resilient communities
- Building professionals capacity for climate action
- Regional Collaboration and capacity development
- Strengthening the technical capacity of professionals for
climate action and disaster risk reduction
If you would like to be part of the technical programme of the
conference your can submit an abstract for the conference. Please bear
in mind the above four main topic and indicate which of these topics
your abstract belongs to.
Submit your abstract here
Overall Programme
The two conference days are Thursday 14 and Friday 15 November 2024.
On Wednesday 13 November a Young Surveyors’ Meeting
(for registered young surveyors) from 10:30-16:30 (at Land Management
Training Center, Dhulikhel; 30 kilometers away from the main event
venue)
A technical/social tour will be organised on Saturday 16
November 2024
See the programme at a glance
Sponsorship and exhibition possibilities
There will be an exhibition during the two conference days. Further
to this various sponsorship options will be available. This will be a
unique opportunity to be visible in Nepal and the near region around
Nepal, hereunder India, Pakistan Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, etc.
Stay updated through the regional conference web site:
www.fig.net/nepal2024
Partners and organsers
Local host and organiser:
-
Nepal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (NICS)
Main partners for the event are:
- World Bank
- UN-Habitat GLTN
- Kadaster, Netherlands
Local supporters:
- Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty
Alleviation
- Survey Department
- Land Management Training Center
- Department of Geomatics Engineering, Kathmandu University
- Paschimanchal Campus, Tribhuvan University, Pokhara
- Himalayan College of Geomatic Engineering and Land Resources
Management, Purvanchal University
- Nepal Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society
From FIG:
- FIG Task Force on Climate Compass
- Task Force on FIG and the SDG's
- FIG Commission 2 - Professional Education
- FIG Commission 5 - Positioning and Measurement
- FIG Commission 8 - Spatial Planning and Development
- FIG Commission 9 - Valuation and the Management of Real Estate
Conference web site:
www.fig.net/nepal2024
Louise Friis-Hansen
April 2024
