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2nd African Women Land Professional Associations Conference

10-14 November 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2nd African Women Land Professional Associations Conference (2AWLPAC 2025) organised by FIG Africa Regional Network (ARN) with the theme: "African Women Land Professional Associations and Gender Perspectives for Social Justicve, Inclusion, and Demand for Reparation for Africans and Descendant of Africans in Diaspora".
Target audience: All female and male Land Professionals including land surveyors, estate surveyors, quantity surveyors, town planners, engineers, builders, lawyers, cartographers, journalists, Women and Youth NGOs from the 55 African Countries and beyond Africa.
Held as part of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) meeting.
To attend the 2AWLPAC, ensure that you register for the 2025 CLPA one of these links: Register here - or register here
Flyer with speakers

1st African Women Land Professional Associations Conference 2024

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8th ISK Africa Regional-Conference 2023

16-17 November 2023 in Eldoret, Kenya

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New leadership in FIG Africa Regional Network - March 2022

Newsletter from the chair - March 2022

Please read the latest newsletter from Jennifer Whittal, chair of ARN - March 2022 Newsletter

FIG Mentoring Pilot Programme 2022

The Pilot Mentoring Programme aims for the Africa Regional Network (ARN) and Young Surveyors Network (YSN) to run a mentoring program across Africa, using the Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute, Australia, (SSSI) Mentoring Program IP as a model, to understand the elements required to make mentoring programs a success within this context. The end goal is to be able to scale up the mentoring programme for more participants within Africa and to provide a model of delivery which may be replicated in other regions of the world.

2019 - Africa Regional Meeting 27-29 November in Dakar, Senegal

ARN 2019 meeting will be held in collaboration with the FGF Universities Conference.

The aim of the meeting in Dakar is to engage with regional associations in francophone and anglophone Africa together through the highly successful FGF Universities conferences who have so generously invited us to partner with them in their 8th Conference. The conference will accommodate French and English language presentations with the aid of dual language projection displays. The Young Surveyors Africa Network of the FIG will also hold a workshop prior to the conference.

ARN Meeting
Young Surveyors Africa Network Meeting
GFGF Universities Conference

Africa Regional Network Meeting and First Young Surveyors Africa Meeting

The meetings were held inin Gaborone Botswana, 17 - 19 October 2018.

FIG Commission Publication Author Support Grant

The FIG Foundation has an author support grant available, and provides 28,000 Euros.

The rationale behind the grant is that FIG has a number of publications on policy and practice which relate to developing countries, but they are not written by people living and working in those countries.
Although the application is supposed to be driven by the commission chairs, it is up to motivated individuals who would like to write a FIG publication to contact their respective a commission chair and develop a proposal Preferably NOW (February 2019) in order to be included in the commission working.

If this is of interest to you, do not hesitate to contact the FIG Office or a Council member asap.

Do note that the Foundation has produced a couple of videos on writing grant proposals to the FIG Foundation. They are on the Foundation’s web page. Potential author’s and commission chairs should view these before submitting a proposal. For more information about the grant and to watch the video, please visit http://fig.net/figfoundation/2019_commission_grant.asp

2018 Africa FIG Regional Network: Geo-spatial Technology Impacts: Shifting the Paradigm in Africa - Workshop

17-19 October 2018 Gaborone, Botswana

On 17 to 19 October will be the annual Africa Region Netwerk going to be held.

This event, with this years' theme: Geo-spatial Technology Impacts: Shifting the Paradigm in Africa, will take place in Botswana's capital Gaborone.

2017 Africa Regional Network: East Africa Capacity Development Workshop

20-22 November 2017, Innes, Musanze, Rwanda

The workshop will concentrate on the challenge of Sustainable Urbanisation: What does it take for Land Professional to lead and support Country Infrastructure Endeavours? A further great partnership opportunity has been brokered with ESRI Rwanda, and our host will be our FIG Academic Member INES Ruhengeri - Institute of Applied Sciences. Together we will hold the 2017 ARN workshop in Rwanda.

Strategy Framework 2016-2018

Circulated ARN Strategy Framework 2017 (updated 21 May 2017)

2016 Africa FIG Regional network: West Africa Capacity development workshop

FIG Member Networks developing Capacity in West Africa

Demonstrating the key and collaborative relationship between the Africa FIG Regional Network and the West Africa YSN, two workshops were held in West Africa reinforcing capacity development and building.

The ARN 2016 workshop (Abidjan Ivory Coast ) was followed by a further successful event, organised by the FIG/YSN Nigeria National Delegate Conference in Lagos Nigeria between 23rd and 25th of November, 2016. They partnered with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to help the importance of route maps (see their pictures here)

2015 Africa FIG Regional network: East Africa Capacity development workshop

FIG Regional Capacity Development Network hosted a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya from 8-10 November 2015.

Challenges and Opportunities in Facing the SDG’s: Generational Diversity in the Land Professional Sector

Sincere thanks to our workshop sponsor: