Theme: India land & Development Conference 2019

Underlining Partnership for Improved Land Governance

ILDC2019, seeks to underline the spirit and importance of partnership, among institutions, beyond sectoral boundaries and across levels, to make land governance and tenure inclusive, equitable and contribute logically to sustainable development. Such partnerships are imperative to trigger and sustain the desired change/revolution/disruptions in land sector, that is critical local and national develoment as well as to achieve SDG.

Embedded itself in the spirit of ‘partnership’, this 3rd in series Annual event, will further conversations and showcase experiences, learning, challenges and good practices around ‘partnerships’ in addressing problems in land sector in general and in enhancing inclusion and impact in particular. Assembly of land actors and stakeholders from states and international organizations will provide an opportune niche to interact, deliberate, debate and trigger building of partnership ecosystems around and across land-disciplines critical to sustain land-engagements for delivering development outcomes.

Centrestaging ‘Inclusion’ of Excluded Land Rights 

A major challenge before India’s land sector in achieving SDG is to ensure faster and proper inclusion of excluded communities and groups, living without land rights viz. women, landless, tenants and share-croppers,; dalits, minorities and indigenous communities;  forest dwellers including pastoralists, coastal communities incluing fish workers and slum dwellers etc. While most of the reasons are known, ILDC2019, would dwell on experiences and strategies around addressing inclusion through reforms, technology and market innovations and more importantly centrestaging deliberations on roles and potential of partnerships in enhancing it.

Enhancing 'Impact' with Land Data & Evidences

Of late India’s land sector has witnessed some remarkable changes at scale as well as in form of exemplary pilots to enhance inclusion, through policy  and institutional reforms as well as technical innovations by state and non-state actors. These changes are logically meant to trigger desired impacts in terms of changed livelihoods and environmental outcomes. Such impacts are critical to be measured, monitored and reported along with the processes and baselines for streamlining and ensuring sustainable development. With India’s comparatively robust land-data repository, institutions, infrastructures, tools/techologies and local capacity, ILDC2019 platform will be used to engage with land-data stakeholders and deliberate on approaches and methodolgies to see how inclusion and impact can be more effectively measured and reported for local and global requirements and goals.

Transcending Boundaries & Deepening Conversations

With first two events drawing and expanding contours of land-conversations in India, ILDC2019 will further challenge the boundaries of land conversations encouraging inclusion of new frontiers and not-so talked of land-issues. It would pursue to promote interdisciplinarity, foster connections and integration, nurture innovations and disrupting narratives while also providing opportunities for more deeper, normative and gender-equitable conversations.

ILDC2019 encourages and invites practitioners, researchers, consultants, innovators, social entrerereneurs and professionals from Governments, private Sector, civil society, international agencies and media to join this unique land-platform in India, to share and learn experiences, get updated on latest-developments, have a deeper look at the issues and challenges and interact with innovations and good practices. With individual and institutional participations further expanding and transcending sectors, ILDC2019 will also be an exciting convergence space to meet, network and build much needed partnerships in and around land sector.

Overall ILDC2019 seeks to be an opportunity for enhancing experiences, learnings, research, innovations and partnerships for enhanced inclusion in and impact of land governance contributing to sustainable development.