1. Working Party on Land Administration WPLA UN body LA - cadastre, land register, valuation, land information emphasis on support to transition countries Represents ECE region governments No membership

2. Working Party on Land Administration WPLA Everything open, no ”members only”, both agencies, ministries, academia, donors, voluntary input Not operational, no projects (but task forces) Very limited resources in Geneva

3. Working Party on Land Administration WPLA meetings 4th session next week Next workshop Tblisi May 2006 Then Prague (autumn 2006), Munich (spring 2007), Dublin (Sept 26-28 2007) 5th session autumn 2007

4. Working Party on Land Administration WPLA publications Statement on Social and Economic Benefits of Good Land Administration Guidelines on Real Estate Units and Identifiers Land Administration Inventory 4th edition Guidelines on PPP LA in the UN ECE Region; Development Trends and Main Principles LA Reviews

5. Working Party on Land Administration HSC publications Guidelines on Condominiums Guidelines on Housing Finance Systems Work on spatial planning going on

6. Working Party on Land Administration ECE reform External review Reform to produce more Committee on Human Settlements not so highly rated Will remain under new name, with some activities going out and others coming in

7. Working Party on Land Administration UN ECE reform Committee on Housing and Land Management Real estate activities and resources from IRED programme shall be integrated i.e. REAG and HLC support

8. Working Party on Land Administration High Level Commission On Empowerment of the Poor Albright and de Soto co-chairs Secretariat connected to UNDP With parts handled by UN ECE 4 working groups, one with focus on land Tool kit for governments, hopefully based on existing work

9. Working Party on Land Administration Differences? WPLA workshop themes not so fixed, covers wide area Perspective sometimes different - financing rather than pricing Networking very important UN goals need to be considered, i.e. MDG WPLA always about recognising differences and working from that