Regional land Forum agenda

1. Regional Land Forum
“Bringing Land Governance into ASEAN economic integration”
Venue: Centre for Women’s Development, 20 Thuy Khue, Tay Ho, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Tuesday 21 June
8:00 Participant Registration
9:00 – 11:30 Opening Remarks
Vice Chairman of the Economic Committee of the Communist Party
Vice Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Mr Steven Geiger, Country Director, Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC Vietnam)
Mr Jochem Lange , Country Director, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit
(GIZ) GmbH
Keynote presentations by: Louisa Jansen, FAO, Phil Hirsch, University of Sydney, and Duncan
Pruett, Oxfam.
11:30 Opening of exhibitions / posters by participants
11:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 Parallel Thematic Session 1
Land Policy Dialogue, Private Sector Responsible Investment, Land Governance Tools,
Conflict Transformation
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Parallel Thematic Session 2
Policy Dialogue Agricultural Investment, Responsible Investment in Agriculture,
Recognition of Customary Tenure, Women’s Land Rights
17:00 – 19:00 Networking
Wednesday 22 June
8:00 Participant registration, Poster and Exhibition booths open
8:30 – 10:00 Parallel Thematic Session 3
Land Titling, Responsible Investment in Agriculture, Community Forestry, Foreign Direct
Investment in the Mekong
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Parallel Thematic Session 4
Land Titling, Legal Education, Community Forestry, Foreign Direct Investment (AEC)
Lunch break
13:30 – 17:00
(includes
break)
Half Day Workshops & Training
Large Scale Land Acquisition Regulation (Workshop)
Customary Tenure Recognition (Workshop)
Conflict Transformation (Training)
Private Sector Engagement and Responsible Business (Training)
Thursday 23 June
8:00 Registration
Poster and Exhibition booths open
8:30 – 10:00 Plenary: Moderated Round Table on FDI and Large Scale Land Investment in the Mekong Region
- Policies and Practice.
CLMV Government and Academic roundtable representation, moderated by Professor Vo (former
MONRE Vice Minister) and Jean-Christophe Diepart.
Young Academic Exchange (Students and academic staff only)
Conducted by GIZ with selected land administration students from CLMV countries.
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Government Policy Dialogue: Closed government discussion facilitated by IPSARD
Open Space – Networking and Presentations
Young Academic Exchange (Students and academic staff only)
Lunch break
13:30 – 14:40 Plenary Wrap Up
Rapporteur summary presentations from Parallel workshops on Day 2
Rapporteur summary of young academic exchange
14:40 – 15:00 Closing remarks by Director of IPSARD