Agenda
17-19 September, 2025
Bangkok, Thailand
DAY 1 | Wednesday 17 September |
Morning | |
Opening Plenary Session | |
TRACK A: Secure land rights as a climate solution | |
Track keynote: How can climate and biodiversity initiatives impact tenure rights in the Mekong region? How are secure tenure rights a win-win for people and climate? What are emerging opportunities for securing tenure and financing locally-driven solutions? Multi-stakeholder panel reflection and discussion featuring IP&LC, conservation, government, and donor representatives. | |
Afternoon | |
Thematic parallel sessions, roundtable discussions, and trainings led by MRLG Customary Tenure Alliance partners | |
Country parallel sessions: Opportunities for strengthening tenure security and climate resilience, and key challenges for reform | |
Photo exhibition featuring the winners of the 2025 MRLG Photo Competition | |
DAY 2 | Thursday 18 September |
Morning | |
TRACK B: Towards a just transition in agrarian and food systems | |
Track keynote: How can responsible agricultural investment improve efficient and equitable food systems? What solutions for curbing commodity-driven forest and nature loss work best in the Mekong context? How can these solutions center smallholders who bear the burden of climate change? And how does secure tenure create an enabling environment for a just agrarian transition? Multi-stakeholder panel reflection and discussion featuring experts on agroecology, deforestation, and gender justice. | |
Thematic parallel sessions, roundtable discussions, and trainings led by MRLG Responsible Agricultural Investment Alliance partners | |
Afternoon | |
Panel on investor solutions: showcase of private sector voices transforming business-as-usual | |
Spotlight talks: young academics from across the Mekong present emerging research | |
DAY 3 | Friday 19 September |
Morning | |
TRACK C: Processes for more effective and collaborative policy making in the sector | |
Track keynote: Can multi-stakeholder alliances improve land governance? What have we learned in 10 years of MRLG? Featuring lessons from MRLG’s Capitalisation of Experience. Multi-stakeholder panel reflection and discussion featuring representatives from implementers, government, donors and researchers who contributed to MRLG project. | |
Country parallel sessions: alliances reflect on their contribution to one policy pathway per country during MRLG project, | |
Concluding Session | |
