Formalising land rental improves productivity and benefits vulnerable farmers
This research summary shows how LIFT helps to increase incomes for poor landholders and tenants by formalising Ethiopia’s land rental market.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land rental
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2019
Formalising land rental improves productivity and benefits vulnerable farmers
This research summary shows how LIFT helps to increase incomes for poor landholders and tenants by formalising Ethiopia’s land rental market.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Land rental
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2019
Framework on land administration best practices for the model woredas
This document provides a clear monitoring framework for the implementation of best practices across selected Woreda Land Administration Model Offices (WLAMOs).
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: User guide
Year produced: 2019
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
How can Land Administration in Ethiopia become Transparent and Economically Productive for All?
This document summaries LIFT’s Costed Implementation Plan to improve land transparency in land governance in Ethiopia.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Assessment Strategy
Year produced: 2017
How can Land Disputes be Better Managed and Resolved?
This summary of LIFT’s Rapid Assessment identifies land conflict drivers and land-related disputes as well as grievance mechanisms and how LIFT’s activities interact with these, including recommendations to reform the relevant grievance redress mechanisms.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land tenure and certification, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2016
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 the Challenges of Ethiopia’s Rural Land Administration be Addressed?
This summary examines the transparency in land governance in Ethiopia and proposals to improve this.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2016
How can women and people from vulnerable groups be encouraged to take a more active part in the SLLC process?
This summary of LIFT’s Strategy to Effectively Engage Women and Vulnerable Groups During SLLC assesses the engagement of women and vulnerable groups (VGs) during the second level land certification (SLLC) PROCESS. and how best to involve women and VGs to ensure their involvement and tenure security.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2017
How has LIFT’s Economic Empowerment Unit incentivised landholders to keep their SLLC up to date?
This study explores how LIFT’s market development interventions have encouraged landowners to formally register land transactions, thus ensuring that local land registers are up to date.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Land administration, Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Impact summary
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
Hybrid institutional approach to support RLAS operational woredas (satellite woreda approach concept note)
This strategy sets out the formalisation of Woreda Land Administration Offices (WLAOs) being provided support in land administration functions by neighbouring WLAOs with better capacity to strengthen land administration services
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Strategy
Year produced: 2019
Implementing the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) programme in Ethiopia
This paper, presented at the 2016 World Bank Land Conference, outlines LIFT’s progress to date, and explores some of the challenges involved in replicating and scaling up systematic land registration methodologies in the Ethiopian context.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2016
Inclusive land registration and the critical role of social development officers: A handbook for program design and implementation
This guide, informed by the success of the SDO strategy in Ethiopia, identifies lessons learned and outlines critical steps that other countries can apply to their own rural land administration programmes as they strive to ensure these programmes become more gender and socially inclusive.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land administration, Land tenure and certification, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: User guide
Year produced: 2020
Increasing productivity through an innovative individual-based agricultural loan
This research summary explores how LIFT aids smallholder farmers through individual-based agricultural loans.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Agricultural inputs for sustainability, Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2019
Increasing productivity through an innovative, individual-based agricultural loan
This research summary explores the impact of an individual loan product that is linked to the second level land certificate.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Access to finance
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2019
Land tenure security: ensuring no one is left behind
This policy brief explores the challenges that vulnerable groups face in achieving land rights security and the approach LIFT has taken to ensure their inclusion in the demarcation process.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land tenure and certification, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Policy brief
Year produced: 2019
Large-scale rural land certification and administration in Ethiopia: the challenges of a decentralised approach
This paper explores some of the challenges involved in replicating and scaling up systematic land registration over a large and diverse geographical area and how programmes can work through decentralised government systems.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Research study
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
LIFT imagery strategy
This report assesses the procurement of remotely sensed imagery as opposed to aerial photography for rolling out second level land certification and the rural land administration system.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2017
