During the opening plenary held on Thursday morning, participants heard opening statements delivered by Josué Dioné, Director, Food Security and Sustainable Development, UN Economic |Commission for Africa (ECA), on behalf of ECA Executive Director Abdoulaye Janneh, Alioune Badiane, Chief, UN-HABITAT Regional Office for Africa and Arab States, Ali Mohamed (Kenya), Chair of ACSD-5, and Mafa Chipeta, sub-regional coordinator for Eastern Africa and FAO Representative in Ethiopia to the AU and ECA. Participants then meet in a morning and two afternoon plenary sessions under the theme ‘Land and Africa’, to discuss the expert presentations made on: land for sustainable urbanization in Africa; key land issues in ACSD report to NY; Land and livelihoods in urban and peri-urban Africa – rural-urban linkages; Global Land Tool Network; the UNECA/AU/AfDB land policy framework; land information and management for sustainable urbanization; the urban land market in Africa; gender and land; innovative land management and the continuum of land rights in Africa; and land, administration, governance and corruption in Africa.
A comprehensive IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) summary report of the meeting will be available online on Monday, 25 February 2008.
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