How can the Challenges of Ethiopia’s Rural Land Administration be Addressed?
This summary explores the Government of Ethiopia’s (GoE) land policy, laws and procedures against international best practice (FAO VGGT etc.) and land administration issues impacting transparency such as land investments and harmonising rural and urban land policies, particularly in urban expansion areas. The report also includes a proposal for a Plan for Improved Transparency in Land Governance.
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How can rural land administration systems pay for themselves in the long term?
This summary of LIFT’s Strategies Towards Financial Sustainability of RLAS looks at the financial sustainability of the rural land administration system and how alternative strategies could ensure better financial sustainability of the system at the woreda (district) level.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2017
How can a rural land information system benefit land users in ethiopia?
This summary 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
LIFT’s study on formal registration of land transactions in Ethiopia
This study conducted by LIFT looks at the underlying causes for landholders to informally transact their land use rights as opposed to registering them and provides a statistically significant estimate for the percentage of formally registered land transactions.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report)
Year produced: 2019
How has LIFT’s Economic Empowerment Unit incentivised landholders to keep their SLLC up to date?
This study explores how LIFT encourages landowners to register land transactions to ensure that the land register is up to date.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land administration, Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2019
