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Program of Events:
Securing Rights to Land for Peace and Food Security - International Conference

Day 1: Tuesday, 21 April
8:30-9:00	Registration
	OPENING SESSION	Facilitator: Dr. Roshan Chitrakar Chairperson, CSRC Nepal Chair: Hon. Mahendra Paswan Minister of Land Reform and Management
9:00-9:10	Welcome remarks	Dr. Keshav Kanel Secretary of Land Reform and Management
	Ceremonial Lighting of the Lamp by the Prime Minister
9:10-9:20	Introduction to the Conference	Madiodio Niasse Director, ILC Secretariat
9:20-9:30	Statement by the ILC Council	Jean-Philippe Audinet, IFAD Co-chair, Coalition Council
9:30-9:50	Inaugural speech by the Prime Minister	Rt. Hon. Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ - Prime Minister of Nepal
9:50-10:00	Closing remarks	Hon. Mahendra Paswan Minister of Land Reform and Management
10:00-10:10	Group photo
10:10-10:40	Refreshments
	PLENARY 1	Facilitator: Dr. Roshan Chitrakar Chairperson, CSRC Nepal
10:40-11:10	Presentation: Land Issues in Nepal	Jagat Basnet, CSRC Nepal and Jagannath Adhikari, Independent Researcher
11:10-11:30	Address by Nepali farmer leader	Baldev Ram President, National Land Rights Forum, Nepal
11:30-12:00	Keynote: Land for Women and the Poor: Need for a New Approach	Dr. Bina Agarwal University of Delhi, India
12:00-12:30	Keynote: One Billion Rising: Land Reform Challenges and Responses in Today’s Context	Dr. Roy Prosterman RDI, United States
12:30-13:00	Questions for the speakers
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:30
	PLENARY 2	Facilitator: Liz Alden Wily, PhD Independent Land Tenure Specialist
14:00-14:30	Presentation: 21st-Century Agrarian Reforms	Fernando Eguren CEPES, Peru
14:30-14:50	Responses to the presentation:	Constance Mogale LAMOSA, South Africa Erpan Faryadi KPA, Indonesia Sue Longley, IUF
14:50-15:20	Discussion and Summary
15:20-15:45	Refreshments
	PLENARY 3	Facilitator: Ruth Meinzen-Dick, IFPRI
15:45-16:45	Panel: Land Policies of Inter-Governmental Organizations & Bilateral Donors	Jean-Philippe Audinet, IFAD Lasse Krantz SIDA, Switzerland Frits van der Wal, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands Jozias Blok European Commission
16:45-17:15	Discussion and Summary
17:15-17:30	Presentation of Declaration Committee Announcements	ILC Secretariat
18:00-21:00	Welcome reception and dinner Co-hosted by the Government of Nepal and the International Land Coalition

Day 2: Wednesday, 22 April

8:30-8:45

Welcome and review of first day’s outcomes

Facilitator:
Annalisa Mauro, ILC

8:45-10:15

Parallel knowledge sharing groups

Group 1: Land, Water and Forest Rights
Case presentations by:
- Community forestry in Nepal: Dilraj Khanal, FECOFUN, Nepal
- Forest rights in Guatemala: Carlos Morales Cifuentes, UVOC, Guatemala
- Albanian forest on the way from state to families: Haki Kola, NACFPA, Albania

Facilitator
Dr. Ujjwal Pradhan, ICRAF

Group 2: Land Rights and Climate Change
Presentations:
- Land reform and climate adaptation
- A perspective from the Sahel: Ibrah Boukar, Code Rural, Niger
- Land governance and climate change
- A perspective from Latin America: Alejandro Laos, SER-Peru
- Reflections on ILC and climate change: Jean-Philippe Audinet, IFAD

Facilitator:
Madiodio Niasse, ILC

10:15-10:30

Refreshments

10:30-12:30

Parallel working groups

Group 3: Women’s Access to Land:
- Introduction: Sabine Pallas
- Lessons learned from the WRAP Asia: SDF, India
- Regional platform on women’s access to land in Latin America: NITLAPAN, Nicaragua
- Action research on women’s access to land
- Discussion and way forward

Facilitator:
Sabine Pallas, ILC

Group 4: New Commercial Pressures on Land
- CPL Overview: Michael Taylor
- CPL participatory research project: Michael Merlet, AGTER, France
- Structured discussion & summary

Facilitator:
Michael Taylor, ILC

12:30-13:10

Marketplace of Ideas

- La méthodologie des voyages d'études : Michel Merlet, AGTER
- The evaluation of South Africa’s redistributive land reform programmes & Politics of communal land reform: Ward Anseeuw, CIRAD

Madiodio Niasse
Director, ILC Secretariat

13:10-14:00

Lunch

Jean-Philippe Audinet, IFAD
Co-chair, Coalition Council

14:00-14:45

Plenary: Report-back of working groups

Facilitator:
Annalisa Mauro, ILC

14:45-15:00

Refreshments

15:00-16:30

Regional caucuses

Africa

Facilitator: Barthelemy Honfonga

Latin America

Facilitator: Sandra Apaza Lanyi, ILC

Asia

Facilitator: Rolando Modina, ILC

17:00-19:00

Coalition Council Meeting (preparatory to the business day)

Day 3: Thursday, 23 April

7:00 am

Departure from the hotel

7:00-13:00

Field visits to Nepali communities affected by land issues

Group name & address	Area of learning
1. Kharpa Community Forestry Users Groupm Talku-7, Kathmandu	- Forest-based income generation - Forest management - Horticulture
2. Bandevi Shanti Community Forestry Users Group Badikhel 5, Lalitpur	- Income generation programme -Community office management
3. Chemeliya Community Forestry Users Group Dadhikot, Bhaktapur	- Organizational development - Forest management
4. Gaukhureshower Community Forestry Users Group Dhulikhel Muncipality, Kavre	- Nursery management - Forest management - Women’s participation in forest management

15:00-17:00

ROUND -TABLE DISCUSSION: Sharing Experiences and Lessons in Land Reform

Co-facilitators: Dr. Madiodio Niasse, ILC
Dr. Netra Timsina, NFN-Nepal
Rapporteur: Bimal Phunyal, Action Aid - Nepal

15:00-15:20

Introductory statement

Hon. Baburam Bhattarai
Minister of Finance

15:20-15:30

Update on the Nepal Land Reform Process

Hon. Mahendra Paswan, Minister
Dr. Keshav Kanel, Secretary
Ministry of Land Reform and Management

15:30-15:40

Hon. Haribol Prasad Gajurel
High Level Land Reform Commission

15:40-15:50

Lessons and insights on access to land: The Philippine experience

Nathaniel Don Marquez
Asian NGO Coalition

15:50-16 :00

A perspective from Africa

Odenda Lumumba,
Kenya Land Alliance

16:00-16:10

A perspective from Latin America

Fernando Eguren
CEPES, Peru

16:10-17:00

Plenary discussion
Summary by rapporteur

17:00-17:15

Break

CLOSING SESSION

Facilitator:
Shamsul Huda, ALRD, Bangladesh
ILC Council

Chair:
Hon. Mahendra Paswan
Minister of Land Reform and Management

17:15-17:25

Presentation and approval of the Conference Declaration

Declaration Committee

17:25-17:30

Conclusions and way forward

Madiodio Niasse
Director, ILC Secretariat

17:30-17:35

Vote of thanks

ILC representative
Dr. Keshav Kanel
Secretary of Land Reform and Management

17:35-17:45

Closing remarks

Hon. Mahendra Paswan
Minister of Land Reform and Management

18:00-19:00

Book launch: Land Watch Asia report & DFID report on Land Reform in Nepal (full) (summary)

19:00-20:00

Cultural event and Dinner

Day 4: Friday, 24 April 2009

Agenda: Assembly of Members of the International Land Coalition

8:30-8:40

Approval of the agenda of the 2009 Assembly of Members

8:40-8:45

Adoption of the minutes of 2007 Assembly of Members business meeting

8:45-9:15

Presentation of the ILC Biennial Report, 2007-2009

9:15-10:00

Discussion and endorsement of the ILC Biennial Report by members

10:00-10:30

Presentation of CEF Phase One and discussion of options for follow-up

10:30-10:45

Refreshments

10:45-11:15

Admission of new members

11:15-11:30

Election of the new Coalition Council

11:30-12:30

Approval of amendments to the ILC Constitution

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:45

Approval of the Membership Contribution document

14:45-15:30

Assembly of Members summary and closing

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-17:00

Meeting of the Coalition Council

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