Dubai: The Dubai Land Department, DLD, has announced that Dubai has been chosen to host the First Arab Land Conference, which will run from February 26-28, 2018.
The conference will address many of the most-challenging land-related issues in Arab countries, including how to manage land to reduce conflicts, and how to maximise the use of land and real estate for individuals, states, and society as a whole. In addition to being a platform for knowledge sharing, the conference will work towards enhancing regional cooperation, capacity development, and innovation in land management and real estate reform in order to promote social and economic development in the Arab region.
DLD is collaborating with several regional and international institutions and bodies to organise the event, including the World Bank, the Global Land Tool Network, UN-Habitat, the Arab League and the Arab Union of Surveyors.
In addition to high-level ministerial meetings, the conference will also include technical sessions in which research papers and presentations will be presented which will address land and property cases in Arab countries.
The key topics and presentations of the conference are access to land for sustainable business and investment; Interlink between housing policy and land management; education, research and capacity development on land policy, management, and administration; protection of land and property rights of displaced people and refugees; women, land and property rights; and new technologies to support land and real estate registration systems, property valuation and taxation policies.
The conference will be open to all interested parties including those employed in the real estate sector, individuals, companies and institutions, government officials, academics, students, real estate brokers and developers.
