The World Bank will hold a conference on Land and Poverty on 8-11 April, 2013 at its Washington DC Head Office. This is an annual event which brings together representatives from governments, the development community, civil society, academia and the private sector to discuss issues of concern to communities, land practitioners and policy makers worldwide and aims to foster dialogue, share good practices and experiences in the land sector from around the world (see http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPROGRAMS/EXTIE/0,,contentMDK:23278099~pagePK:64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:475520,00.html)

Kenya’s land reforms are now firmly under implementation. This incremental achievement meets perfectly well the sequence recommended in the Framework and Guidelines for Land Policy in Africa, developed as part of the continent’s quest to advance appropriate land reforms.

Interestingly, the development of this framework greatly benefitted from the input of one of Kenya’s finest scholars in land law and reforms, Prof Hastings Okoth-Ogendo, who was chairman of the continental task force in April 2009 at the time of his death.