The Land Portal Foundation and the NRMC Center for Land Governance are partnering with key organizations to hold a series of three webinars on Forest Rights and Governance in India, Land Rights for Slum Dwellers in the East Indian State Odisha: Making technology work for the urban poor and Women Inheriting Land: Rights and Realities, leading up to the third annual India Land and Development Conference (ILDC), which will take place from 12-14 March, 2019.

The results of these webinars will inform discussions at respective panel sessions during the conference with the aim of making panel-conversations more nuanced while also ensuring deeper dives into the subject, thereby achieving  more actionable results. The ultimate goal of these webinars is to contribute to desirable changes in institutional frameworks and to eliminating barriers that are limiting implementation of legal and policy frameworks, through enhanced awareness and understandings of stakeholders. In addition, these webinars will connect local and global discourse and audiences, with the immediate outcome of enhanced and nuanced appreciation of the issue and more informed actions that contribute to better results.

The webinar on Land Rights for Slum Dwellers in the East Indian State Odisha: Making technology work for the urban poor will take place on 14 February from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM IST (1:30-3:00 PM CET or 7:30-9:00 AM EST).

The webinar is co-organized by the Government of Odisha, Tata Trusts, Azim Premji University, Cadasta Foundation, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) with support from  the NRMC Center for Land Governance and the Land Portal Foundation.

Panelist:

• G. Mathi Vathanan, IAS, Principal Secretary, Housing & Urban Development Department, Government of Odisha
• Amita Girish Bhide, Professor and Dean, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
• Frank Pichel, Cadasta Foundation
• Shishir Dash, Lead- Urban habitat, Tata Trusts

Register online here

Source : Land Portal