ILDC 2021 Speakers on 25th Nov 2021 AFRICA DAY
Chilombo Musa, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-01″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Ms. Chilombo Musa is interested in creating sustainable living spaces in urban centres, especially for underserved and overlooked communities. A lecturer and researcher, she has worked on access to land, land policy making and the interaction of globalising forces and their impact on land and housing accessibility. Chilombo is also interested in the contestation of power amongst policy makers, the role of international organisations in driving policy making processes, and local communities’ involvement in decision making. She has worked as a Research Fellow at the Economic Commission for Africa, where she served as a focal person for the Land Policy Initiative (African Land Policy Centre) and worked with local and international players in land policy making processes. Chilombo has participated in the organisation of international and regional conferences centred on harmonisation of gender statistics, and economic and structural transformation [/expand] |
Serene Ho |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-03″ ] Serene Ho is a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at RMIT University hosted in the School of Science (Geospatial Science) and affiliated with the Centre for Urban Research. Her interdisciplinary research explores how new geospatial technologies used to map land rights in urban informal settlements impact trust relationships between communities and governments. Serene’s research brings together land administration and public administration to investigate how to build trust and public confidence in formal land information systems, one of the most corrupt public institutions globally. She is currently also engaged in a UNFCCC/UN-Habitat funded project investigating climate resilience in Honiara, Solomon Islands, where she leads the work on community profiling of urban informal settlements, as well as gender and climate change adaptation. Prior to joining RMIT, she was a Horizon 2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Public Governance Institute at KU Leuven (Belgium) working on the its4land project. Serene’s broader research areas relate to social innovation and gender equity in urban land administration.[/expand] |
Eileen Wakesho Mwagae |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Eileen Wakesho Mwagae is the Community Land Protection Advisor for Kenya. She brings about ten years of experience in the Development Sector with a focus on Women’s Land Rights and Land and Natural resource governances. Prior to joining Namati, Eileen served as the Women’s Land Rights Advisor for Oxfam International. Women Land Rights Advisor at Oxfam International where she focuses on carrying out influencing work that draws on national work and grassroots women’s experiences and leads to greater attention to women’s land and property rights in all relevant policy arenas globally. [/expand] |
Masalu Luhula |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-02hg” text-color=”#f5f300″] Masalu Luhula is a Land Tenure Specialist and an attorney based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Masalu joined Landesa in November 2019; prior to that, he worked with the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) Coordinating Land based investment thematic area where he also supported a Landesa project focused on responsible investment in property and land. [/expand] |
Dr. Lorenzo Cotula |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-04″ ] Lorenzo Cotula leads research, policy engagement and field-level projects on the legal arenas where natural resource governance meets the global economy – cutting across Land and natural resource governance; economic law, particularly international investment law; human rights; “responsible investment”, particularly in agriculture and the extractive industries; rural producers and agricultural value chains; law and political economy in natural resource investments; legal and socio-legal research methods; legal empowerment approaches; citizen participation in law reform with extensive country experience in Africa and Asia. Prior to working at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), he was a research consultant to the Legal Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO); collaboration with two Italian NGOs. He has a Postgraduate certificate in Sustainable Business, University of Cambridge; PhD in Law, University of Edinburgh; MSc in Development Studies (Distinction), London School of Economics; Degree in Law (cum laude), University “La Sapienza” of Rome. |
Dr. Reshmy Nair |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-06″ ] Dr Reshmy Nair is a Professor and Director at the Centre for Management of Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (CMLARR). She has graduated in Economics (Hons.) from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and holds M. Phil & Doctorate degrees in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Among the prominent international assignments successfully led by her include customized courses on LARR for Ministerial delegation from Government of Uganda, Egypt, Kenya etc; Curriculum Development Workshop for University of Nairobi; Support to World Bank in the Technical Assistance for Land Acquisition Policy and Institutional Reform in Egypt; Development of Step by Step Guidelines on Social Impact Assessment; South-South learning event on R & R and Benefit Sharing; International training courses on LARR, advisory guidance to University of Peradeniya; Sri Lanka on LARR, Technical support for Training of Trainers in workshops organized by World Bank in the South Asian Region among others. She has led national/international consultancy studies on social impact assessment and evaluation. Her current areas of interest include Development Issues in Economics, Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation, Agricultural Insurance, Food Security, Public Distribution System, Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Interventions in Rural and Social Sectors. [/expand] |
Dr. Gemma van der Haar |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-05″ ] Dr. Gemma van der Haar has a background in development sociology, which allowed her to move into the field of conflict studies. As a researcher, her work is located at the intersection of development sociology and conflict studies having a particular interest in issues of ordering, governance and state formation in conflict and disaster ‐ affected settings. Her area of expertise covers; land governance, local governance/state formation, gender and youth. [/expand] |
Dr.Phillan Zamchiya |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-05s” ] Dr. Phillan Zamchiya officially joined the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) as a senior researcher in 2017. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in International Development from the University of Oxford. His academic interests are twofold. He studies contemporary trajectories of land and agrarian change in Southern Africa and the politics of post-colonial states in democratic transitions. He is currently the regional coordinator of PLAAS’s new project on the privatisation of customary land and women’s land rights in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia. Previously, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford University where he taught on the Master of Philosophy program at the Department of International Department. He holds an MPhil in Land and Agrarian Studies from the University of the Western Cape. Before joining UWC, he studied for a BSc in Politics at the University of Zimbabwe. Dr. Zamchiya has worked extensively with civil society organisations in Zimbabwe and as a result he has been a victim of state engineered attacks. He is published in international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Southern African Studies, the Journal of Peasant Studies and the Journal of Agrarian Change. [/expand] |
Dr Shashi R Singh |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-05aa” ] Dr Shashi R. Singh is a Dr Manmohan Singh Fellow at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, and currently positioned as a Research Fellow at the Department of Geography. He is a Human Geographer with inter-disciplinary academic training in Environmental Sciences, Environmental Law, Development Studies, and Human Geography. His research interests pertain to the Political Economy of Land Acquisition and Resource Development, Public Policies, Environmental Laws, and Indigenous People Development. His journal publications are on land acquisitions, displacement, compensation frameworks, mining and resource revenue sharing, public sphere, and justice. He works at the intersection of environment and development issues. Prior to Cambridge, he was associated with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Delhi, as an Associate Fellow and Convenor of Land and R&R Area under the Social Transformation Division. In the last 10 years he has conducted several land acquisition and rehabilitation training programs for different organizations. His present line of research is around large-scale land acquisitions, mining, fair compensation models, land tenure recognition, social risk assessments, land conflicts, and governance issues in resource rich regions. He is also interested in the comparative study of resource rich economies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. His recent book is on ‘Land Acquisition and Resource Development in Contemporary India’ at Cambridge University Press. [/expand] |
Ms. Menare Royal Mabakeng, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-07″ ] Ms Menare Royal Mabakeng is a Land Administration Programmes Coordinator and lecturer in Department Land and Property Sciences at Namibia University of Science and Technology. She has worked with civil society in Namibia for over nine years supporting communities in urban informal settlement upgrading. Royal has a Masters in Geo-information Science for Earth Observation specialising in Land Administration from University of Twente- Faculty ITC. Her research interest are centred around, crowd sourced data for land administration, informal settlements and tenure security, urban-rural land linkages [/expand] |
Prof. Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-09″ ] Uchendu Eugene Chigbu is an Associate Professor (Land Administration) in the Department of Land and Property Sciences (DLPS) at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST). He is a Co-Chair of the Research Cluster of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), and an Associate Editor of the Journal, Land Use Policy (Elsevier). [/expand] |
Mr Thierry Ngoga Hoza, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-08″ ] Thierry Ngoga Hoza has over 13 years’ experience working in the field of natural resources, with particular expertise in land tenure, land use planning and land management issues. [/expand] |
Simon Peter Mwesigye, |
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Frances Birungi |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-T101″ ] Frances Birungi is the Executive Director for Uganda Community Based Association for Women and Children’s welfare (UCOBAC). She is currently the Chairperson of the International Land Coalition – National Engagement strategy in Uganda and also coordinates the Stand for Her Land Campaign in Uganda. Frances is a feminist and passionate gender, human rights and development specialist with over 18 years professional experience in designing, implementing and evaluating programs aimed at accelerating progress towards attaining gender justice through promoting women and girls’ Land and Property Rights, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, ending Gender Based Violence, promoting women’s leadership and strengthening women led climate change resilience and adaptation. Frances works with grassroots communities to organise, mobilize resources, develop community development practices and transform public policies at local, national, regional and global level [/expand] |
Mr. Omuk.Simon Kabogoza |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-T103″ ] Kabogoza Simon Muwanga is a Social Scientist holding a Masters’ Degree in Development Studies from the Uganda Martyrs University – Nkozi and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences from Makerere University. He has over 15 years’ experience in strategic communication & coordination of social change projects and 5 years’ experience in land management business. He has been the Head of Corporate Affairs/Deputy MD (Admin) at Buganda Land Board Limited, a company mandated to manage Buganda Kingdom land. In his position, Simon has been responsible for upholding the Company’s image and overseeing the Legal, Community Mobilization, Client Management and the communications units of BLB. Before joining BLB, he worked with Communication for Development Foundation Uganda (CDFU) on several USAID-funded programs. Simon worked as the Behaviour Change Communication Advisor on the Northern Uganda – Health Integration to Enhance Health Services (NU-HITES) Program, AFFORD and the Strengthening TB and HIV&AIDS responses in East Central Uganda (STAR-EC). He has experience in coordinating projects, developing communication strategies, field research and community mobilization. He has written and presented abstracts in international HIV&AIDS conferences. Previously, Simon worked with the DISH Project for 4 years coordinating Behaviour Change activities at community level. [/expand] |
Ms. Cissy Namuddu Kiyaga, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-11″ ] Cissy Namuddu Kiyaga is a PhD fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, Uganda. Her areas of specialization are Political studies, Political economy and Cultural studies. Her doctoral research interest centres on investigating the land question and conflicts that arise from the political and cultural dynamics in control and administration of land. She is also interested in women’s rights with specific focus on women land rights. She graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master’s degrees in Public Administration and Management from Makerere University in 2015. Cissy has experience in the land sector especially from Buganda Land Board where she was exposed to the land question and its dynamics. She is an alumni of NELGA – PLAAS, an alumni of the Africa Women’s Leadership Institute. [/expand] |
Mr. Bashir Kizito Juma |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-T102″ ] Kizito Bashir Juma is a Land administration specialist with demonstrated history of working in the real estate sector and Land administration majorly in the central parts of Uganda for both the public and private sectors. He works as the Head Operations, Business Development and Corporate Affairs at Buganda Land Board. He also serves as the District surveyor for Wakiso and Nakaseke District Local governments. He has served both institutions for over 13 years. He has gained extensive knowledge and skills in land rights recordation, adjudication, land surveying and other activities leading to obtaining security of tenure for communities. He is a registered land surveyor and a fellow at the Institute of Surveyors of Uganda. Bashir holds a B.Sc. Surveying degree from Makerere University, a Diploma in law of the Law Development Centre and a Master’s in Business Administration from Uganda Management Institute. He has served as a Board member of the Buganda Heritage and Tourism Board, chairman supervisory committee of the corporate Muslim multi-purpose community and the Project Head for the Land Electronic Card that was introduced at BLB to increase security of tenure. [/expand] |
Olekwa Abdunassar |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-T104″ ] Olekwa Abdunassar is a land administrator, with over 10 years’ experience in land management, land acquisition, land registration and land governance. Currently working as a Principal Land Officer in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development he joined the Ministry in 2010 as a Land Officer. Abdunassar is passionate about land reform and land rights, especially for women and marginalised groups. He has also been part of several high-level committees on land administration reform; he was a member of the Government team that negotiated the Host Government Agreement (HGA) on the East African Crude Pipeline (EACOP), a member of the Resettlement Action Committee that drafted the Land Acquisition and Resettlement Framework (LARF) currently used in the oil and gas sector, team leader for Systematic Land Adjudication and Certification (SLAAC) sub-program under the World Bank funded USMID-AF project, Secretary to the Standards Committee that oversees the development and implementation of the National Land Information System (NLIS), among other key assignments. Abdunassar holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB.) from Islamic University in Uganda, a Post-graduate diploma in Legal Practice from Law Development Centre and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from East and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI). [/expand] |
Innocent Antoine HOUEDJI, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-12″ ] Innocent Antoine Houedji is a Youth Land specialist and Coordinator of Youth Initiative for Land in Africa (YILAA). He has over 10 years of experience in land expertise, management, business planning, financial analysis, software engineering, operations, and decision analysis. Before founding YILAA in 2019, Innocent Antoine worked on the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Land Access Project in Benin where he has done many research about Youth Access to Land. He has previously held various management positions in Benin, most recently as Regional Head of Office of the Benin National Agency for Land Affairs and Domains (ANDF). [/expand] |
Ameth Diallo, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-14″ ] Ameth Diallo, PhD candidate in Law and Land Governance. He has some experience in Decentralization and local development. Ameth Diallo is also researcher at NELGA West Africa francophone and member of YILAA coordination. As a member of YILAA, he is the Head of Research and training. His training in legal and political sciences, more particularly in public law at Gaston Berger University, allowed him to acquire many skills in subjects such as public international law, international relations, international rights law, classified installations law, environmental law, community law, international humanitarian law, decentralization, local governance and sustainable development. [/expand] |
Georges GAMBADATOUN, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-13″ ] Georges Gambadatoun is currently the head of Organisational Development at YILAA. He is an experienced project/event manager with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry and in operations management. Georges Gambadatoun is a focused and driven social entrepreneur. He is a project management graduate from the Republic of Benin and a recent graduate in Industrial Logistics from the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt in Germany. Georges is a former member of AIESEC. Additionally, he is the co-founder of Blog4SDGs. [/expand] |
Marianne Kamsuri, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-15″ ] Marianne Kamsuri is a trained Lawyer with special bias on Land law, Property law, Commercial law, Administration law and International law. With a Diploma in Wildlife Management, Certificate in Geographical Information Systems, a law degree from the University of Dar Es Salaam and Advocacy Training at United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR) she has handled many land agreements, mortgages and company matters and dealing with litigation in courts in Tanzania since 2008. She is the founder of Organization for Legal and Conservancy(OLECO) in Arusha; working intensively with youth, women and children living at the areas surrounding protected areas and also the general public within Tanzania mainland and the Vice-President of YILAA in Tanzania [/expand] |
Pranab Ranjan Choudhury |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-16″ ] Pranab is a passionate researcher and an empathetic soul, eager to serve the marginalised and the environment. He started his journey as a Scientist with India’s National Agriculture Research System, developing model watersheds to restore hill landscapes and tribal livelihoods that led to the prestigious National Team Award in 2002. To serve the development sector more flexibly, he left his job after a decade and since then, has expanded his engagements around water, livelihoods, forestry and land, building evidence and making recognizable impact at the national and international level. He has led and guided large scale bilateral and multi-country projects around climate change, food security, forestry and livelihoods and has accompanied and evaluated donor-funded projects around NRM, livelihoods and value chain projects across India and South Asia. He founded and leads the Center for Land Governance (CLG), which in a shot span of six years, has been acknowledged as a leading land think tank around land governance policy and research in India and globally. CLG’s work spans across rural, urban, forest and agriculture landscapes cross-cutting gender, technology, justice and sustainability. Apart from engaging on policy and action research with governments, the World Bank, donors and national and international universities, CLG also organises an annual India Land and Development Conference, and unique land convening in South Asia. Pranab is a nominated member of the executive committee of Green India Mission of Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change of Government of India since 2017. His work has been widely published in international peer reviewed journals and has presented papers in international conferences. He also writes in national media and takes land related courses in premier institutes like IIM Ahmedabad and Xavier’s University Bhubaneswar on invitation. [/expand] |
Oumar Sylla, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-17″ ] Oumar Sylla has been acting as Director for the Regional Office for Africa in the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) since January 2020. Before this, he was Branch Coordinator, Urban Legislation, Land and Governance in UN Habitat and, from September 2015, Head of UN Habitat’s Land and GLTN Unit. Prior to joining the Land and GLTN Unit, Oumar served as a Senior Advisor in UN Habitat’s Regional Office for Africa and focal point to support urban policies development and sustainable urbanization in francophone countries. From 2009 to 2014, he was Chief Technical Advisor for UN Habitat’s Land Programme in DR Congo and he also has experience with the European Union framework, which he gained as a Land Policy Advisor in South Sudan and Burkina Faso (2006-2008). From 1999 to 2005 he was a Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Legal Anthropology in Paris 1 Sorbonne, mainly working on land and decentralization policies in West Africa. In Senegal, he operated as a junior researcher within the ILRI/ ISRA institutional cooperation framework (1998-1999) dealing with land and natural resources. [/expand] |
Mr Thierry Ngoga Hoza |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-P17″ ] Thierry Ngoga Hoza has over 13 years’ experience working in the field of natural resources, with particular expertise in land tenure, land use planning and land management issues. [/expand] |
Jayesh Bhatia |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-Pyu17″ ] Mr. Jayesh Bhatia has over 29 years of experience in the natural resources management and the rural development sector. With post graduate degrees from the prestigious Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal and University of Oxford, Mr. Jayesh has worked with a range of organisations and institutions in India. Mr. Jayesh is a strategic thinker, problem solver and a leading voice in the social development sector, especially in augmenting livelihoods for the underserved communities. [/expand] |
Liz Alden Wily, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-t10P4″ ] Liz ALDEN WILY is a political economist (PhD) specialized in agrarian land tenure, and especially community-based property systems (customary, neo-customary, and state developed). She has substantial hands-on experience in 20+ countries, mainly in Sub Saharan Africa (but also most notably in Afghanistan and Nepal outside Africa alongside earlier work in Pakistan and Indonesia). Over four decades Liz has contributed as both practitioner and academic to policies and legal constructs to enable rural communities to secure their unfarmed rangelands and forests under collective entitlements. Liz has also helped establish national, regional and international fora on tenure security. She remains active in active in supporting Land Rights Now, Land Portal, the Rights and Resources Coalition, and Community Land Trusts network. She works from village to ministerial levels depending on the task. Liz is a Fellow of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law Development and Society at Leiden Law School in The Netherlands, a key facilitator of Community Land Action Now! in Kenya where she resides, and a Fellow or adviser to several other multi-agency initiatives. [/expand] |
Prof Mutjinde Katjiua |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”25-19″ ] Mutjinde Katjiua is an Associate Professor of Integrated Land Management at the Namibia University of Science and Technology, and Head of the Department of Land and Property Sciences. He coordinates the Southern African Node of the Network of Land Governance in Africa. Professor Katjiua works in the fields of natural resources management, community facilitation and rangeland and arid environment ecology, biodiversity conservation, livestock production and herbivore-plant interactions. For over 20 years, Professor Katjiua has played a role in the development of national programmes dealing with Community-Based Natural Resources Management, Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Land Management. He has carried out numerous social and environmental impact assessments for rural and urban areas development projects. He is an astute commercial livestock farmer in the semi-arid region of Namibia, the Kalahari sandveld, managing a delicate arid rangeland ecosystem on 5000 hectares prone to frequent droughts, water scarcity and an array of plant communities. Namibia has a lucrative beef export market to the EU, US, Norway, and China. He has served in various statutory bodies of the Government of Namibia, such as the Omaheke Communal Land Board responsible for administration communal lands and conflict resolution; Namibian Government’s High Level Committee for the Second National Land Conference; the National Heritage Council of Namibia; and currently serves on the technical panel of the Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia. Prof Katjiua is the Chair of the Transitional Committee of the Ovaherero Traditional Authority and its substantive Secretary General, has recently submitted an “Alternative Report to the 7th Periodic Report submitted by the Federal Republic of Germany under Article 40 of International Covenant of Political and Civil Rights (ICCPR)” together with the Nama Traditional Leaders Association, Minority Rights Group, Berlin Postkolonial e.V. and the European Center of Constitutional and Human Rights e.V. (ECCHR). This is an ongoing effort to see the Federal Republic of Germany pays reparations to the Herero and Nama peoples for genocide committed against their ancestors.
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