How has LIFT’s Economic Empowerment Unit incentivised landholders to keep their SLLC up to date?
LIFT carried out a large-scale survey to estimate the percentage of land transactions that were formally registered by landholders. In this survey, 9,600 households were interviewed across the programme’s four regions: Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region. This research summary outlines the findings of this survey and how LIFT’s Economic Empowerment Unit has incentivised landholders to keep their second level land certificate (SLLC) up to date
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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: Research
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2019
Study on improving the formal registration of land transactions
This study examines the reasons why landholders choose to formally or informally transact land use rights and provides recommendations on how to increase the number of households formally registering transactions.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land administration, Land rental
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2018
