Locus Alliance - Australia's National Home for Surveying & Spatial Professionals.

Join us for our Webinar Series.

23 July @ 2pm.

We will be hosting Kate Fairlie (Land Equity International) & Assoc. Prof. Siobhan McDonnell (ANU) who will talk us through 'Land tenure as the world’s most critical infrastructure'.

Speaker Info

Kate Fairlie from Land Equity International as the Project Director for the FCDO UKCCU Papua Spatial Planning project. Her ongoing and past work includes assisting Nauru in implementing land tenure and master planning solutions to mitigate urbanisation and climate change, developing a roadmap for national urban cadastral reform in Ethiopia, developing action plans to improve property registration and cadastre management in Indonesia and Egypt and designing low-cost methods and processes for issuing Certificates of Rights of Occupancy in Tanzania.

Kate’s international career began as a consultant to UN-Habitat, leading an action research project on youth access to land and decision-making spaces. She has worked with regional government in Australia, managing the development of spatial tools to support inter-governmental coordination on conservation mechanisms.

Dr Siobhan McDonnell is an Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. Siobhan is a lawyer and anthropologist who has over twenty-five years of experience working with Indigenous people in Australia and the Pacific.

Siobhan produces research that contributes to high-impact policy and legal outcomes in the areas of: improved Indigenous land rights, improved natural resource management, consideration of climate change and resettlement issues, improved disaster management, innovative land reform in the space of legal pluralism and recognition of customary institutions, and legal outcomes that improve gender equity.

Registration is complimentary for Locus Alliance members, Non members pay a small fee. Register now.

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