"The Africa We Want: Achieving socioeconomic transformation through inclusive and equitable access to land by the youth" is the theme of the 2017 Conference on Land Policy in Africa that will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 14-17 November 2017 and hosted by the Land Policy Initiative, a joint initiative of the African Union Commission (AUC), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and the African Development Bank (AfDB).

A call for papers and posters is now open. Abstracts (800 words) addressing the conference themes and objectives will be received until 4 August, 2017.

Submission and other forms of participation in the Conference are under the following categories and sub-themes:

Categories:

i. Conference papers

ii. Roundtable and Dialogue Sessions

iii. Training and Capacity Building Master Classes

iv. Posters, Exhibitions and Side events

Africa Centered Sub-themes: Alignment with land governance

i. Strengthening land governance and administrative institutions both at the local and national levels, including the adoption of technology and innovations for securing land rights under different tenure regimes;

ii. Empowerment of youth through strengthening their land rights;

iii. Women's land access rights and gender equality - addressing persisting bottlenecks;

iv. Inclusive, transparent and sustainable land based investments, economic justice and environmental management or monitoring;

v. Migration, radicalization and violent extremism - linkages to youth employment, entrepreneurship and access to land for investment;

vi. Rapid urbanization, land use and spatial planning policy and development control;

vii. Planning, monitoring and evaluation experiences and emerging best practices in developing and implementing land policies (rural and urban).

Abstracts are particularly welcome if they address one or more of the following transcending themes:

i. Youth land rights

ii. Women's land rights and gender equality

iii. Land degradation, access to water and climate change

iv. Human rights and food security.

Please submit to africalandconference@un.org. Abstracts may be submitted in English or French, and must include institutional affiliation for all co-authors and full contact information for the presenting (co)author, according to the attached template.

Publication of Papers

The Scientific Committee will select some papers from those presented at the Conference for publication as may be arranged by the organizers of the Conference. The Scientific Committee will provide authors of selected papers with recommendations on how selected papers may be refined for publication purposes.