Amhara Regional RLAS Manual
This manual for the Amhara Regional Land Bureau and Woreda Land Administration Offices details the process of maintaining the land register and procedures to register land transactions.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: User guide
Year produced: 2016
Analysis of kebele proximity on reported RLAS transactions
This quantitative study evaluates the percentage of subsequent land transactions that are formally registered (compared with non-registration or informal registration practices) based on the landholder’s proximity to the woreda (district) land administration office.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report)
Year produced: 2019
Assessment of administrative and judicial land dispute resolution interventions for the LIFT programme: summary note
This assessment examines constraints within the land dispute resolution systems in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region and provides a set of proposed interventions to improve the functioning of the formal land dispute resolution system.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Assessment
Year produced: 2019
Assessment of constraints in land rental regulatory frameworks in Tigray and SNNPR
This study assesses the reasons for low formalisation of land rental transactions and constraints within the rural land rental regulatory framework in Tigray and the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR), and provides recommendations to improve the regulatory framework for land rental transactions.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land rental
Type of resource: Assessment
Year produced: 2016
Assessment of rural land rental determinants in Ethiopia
This report analyses what the key determinants are for farmers when deciding to rent out their land and how LIFT can influence these to further strengthen the rural land rental market.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land rental
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2016
Building healthy portfolios: technical assistance on default management system for partner microfinance institutions
This summary describes technical assistance provided by LIFT to microfinance institutions to help them improve their management of loan defaults.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Access to finance
Type of resource: Technical assistance summary
Year produced: 2019
Business case for the Rural Land Administration Information Service
This business case provides a full-scale, context-specific and implementable ‘Business case for the Rural Land Administration Information Service (RLAIS)’.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Strategy
Year produced: 2018
Certificate uptake survey report
This report presents findings from a rapid field investigation into levels of certificate uptake.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Assessment
Year produced: 2017
Challenges women and vulnerable groups face to secure their land use rights: LIFT programme response
This paper highlights the challenges faced by women and other vulnerable groups in securing their land rights as identified by LIFT’s different studies and anecdotal evidence from other projects and government undertakings.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2018
Communications strategy to promote land rentals in Ethiopia
This communications strategy aims to increase the number of rural landholders renting out their land in certified woredas (districts) after receiving their second level certificate.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land rental
Type of resource: Strategy
Year produced: 2016
Conflict mediator survey
This survey report examines changes in land-related disputes resulting from increased tenure security.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land administration, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2017
Costed workplan to improve land transparency in land governance in Ethiopia
This plan assesses how current land-related projects and programmes impact on transparency and land governance and identifies proposed activities to fill any gaps.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Strategy
Year produced: 2017
Customer satisfaction survey report
This report presents findings from a survey of 210 customers who had registered at least one land transaction following second level land certification (SLLC).
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2017
Desk study on communal land in Ethiopia
This study examines what impact, if any, the second level land certification (SLLC) process implemented by LIFT has on individuals, households or groups who use communal lands.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2018
Dispute management procedures and processes for land administration and conflict assessment
This research details how recommendations on conflict can be practically implemented, through updated procedures for second level land certification (SLLC) implementation.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Strategy
Year produced: 2017
Distribution of SLLC: strategic recommendations
This document analyses the current level of land certificate distribution and collection and proposes recommendations to ensure that LIFT meets its objectives and continues to distribute certificates effectively.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Strategy
Year produced: 2017
EEU 2019 impact survey report
This report assesses the impact of LIFT’s Economic Empowerment Unit (EEU) on smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, focusing on improvements in two sectors: access to finance and the land rental system. Read a summary.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Land administration, Land rental
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2019
Effecting change through an innovative financial product
This case study assesses how a new agricultural loan product is helping smallholder farmers to access loans by using their land use right as a guarantee.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Access to finance
Type of resource: Case study
Year produced: 2019
Environmental and conservation agriculture impact study
This study explores the impact of the new agricultural input distribution model developed by the LIFT programme on both farmers and input retailers.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Agricultural inputs for sustainability
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report)
Year produced: 2019
Federal RLAS Manual
This manual details the federal process of maintaining the land register and procedures to register land transactions.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: User guide
Year produced: 2017
