LIFT’s study on formal registration of land transactions in Ethiopia
This study explores how LIFT is working with the Government of Ethiopia to deliver second level land certification to smallholder farmers and to improve the functioning of its rural land registry – the rural land administration system (RLAS). For Ethiopia’s RLAS to stay up to date, farmers are required to formally register subsequent land transactions with local authorities. To better understand the extent to which landholders are following the required formal practices, LIFT carried out a large-scale survey interviewing 9,600 landholders across Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region.
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Study on formal and informal transactions in LIFT programme woredas
This survey provides a representative sample to estimate the percentage of land transactions that have been formally registered with the rural land administration system across LIFT programme woredas.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report)
Year produced: 2019
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
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
LIFT baseline survey report
This report presents findings from a baseline survey conducted in area locations of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) programme coupled with matched control areas proximate to the LIFT programme area.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Agricultural inputs for sustainability, Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land administration, Land rental, Land tenure and certification, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2016
