LIFT project completion report
This report explores the performance, impact, achievements, challenges and risks, and lessons learned from the LIFT programme.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Agricultural inputs for sustainability, Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Growth and investment, Land administration, Land rental, Land tenure and certification, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Impact summary
Year produced: 2021
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
LIFT’s study on formal registration of land transactions in Ethiopia
This study conducted by LIFT looks at how landholders are following formal practices required by the rural land administration system.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2019
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
Market assessment for Amhara and Oromia
This market assessment, undertaken in 2014, reviews the constraints faced by smallholder farmers in three sectors (rural land rental, access to finance and agriculture) that limit the positive impact of second level land certification in Amhara and Oromia. Furthermore, the assessment provides a list of feasible interventions to catalyse the economic impact of increased tenure security.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Agricultural inputs for sustainability, Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land rental
Type of resource: Assessment
Year produced: 2014
Market assessment for Tigray and SNNPR
This market assessment, undertaken in 2015, reviews the constraints faced by smallholder farmers in three sectors (rural land rental, access to finance and agriculture) that limit the positive impact of second level land certification in Tigray and the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR). Furthermore, the assessment provides a list of feasible interventions to catalyse the economic impact of increased tenure security.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Agricultural inputs for sustainability, Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land rental
Type of resource: Assessment
Year produced: 2015
Measuring the effects on efficiency and equity of land rental arrangements in Ethiopia
This research aims to analyse relative effects of current land rental arrangements on the efficiency and equity of small landholding farmers and its implications for land policy debate in Ethiopia.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land rental
Type of resource: Assessment
Year produced: 2016
Model Woreda Monitoring Framework
This document provides a monitoring framework for the implementation of best practices in the Woreda Land Administration Model Offices (WLAMOs)
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: User guide
Year produced: 2019
Oromia Regional RLAS Manual
This manual for the Oromia 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
Policy Brief on LIFT’s market development intervention in the access to finance sector
This policy brief sets out how LIFT has developed of an individual SLLC-linked loan product that uses the produce of the land as a form of guarantee and its importance for smallholder farmers
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Access to finance
Type of resource: Policy brief
Year produced: 2017
Policy Brief on LIFT’s market development intervention in the environment and conservation agricultural sector
This policy brief outlines LIFT’s activities that aim to improve farmers’ access to improved agri-inputs and technologies that are climate smart
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Agricultural inputs for sustainability
Type of resource: Policy brief
Year produced: 2017
Policy Brief on LIFT’s market development intervention in the rural land rental sector
This policy brief outlines the positive impact that formalisation has on smallholder farmers, particularly the vulnerable, and presents
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land rental
Type of resource: Policy brief
Year produced: 2017
Proposal for short-term SDO intervention in non-SDO SLLC woredas
This proposal examines the potential negative consequences that second level land certification (SLLC) may have had on women and vulnerable groups in woredas (districts) where Social Development Officers (SDO) were not in post to engage with these groups. It proposes an approach to revisit a selected number of non-SDO woredas to rapidly identify and resolve disputes.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2019
Rapid assessment of land conflict drivers, land disputes, and grievance redress mechanisms in three regions of Ethiopia
This report 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
Type of resource: Assessment
Year produced: 2016
Registration of rural land for deceased households in Ethiopia
This study provides interim procedures for registering rural land holdings when one or both of a child’s parents are deceased at the time of field demarcation and adjudication.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land tenure and certification, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Strategy
Year produced: 2017
Research gaps on land tenure policy in Ethiopia
This review commissioned by LIFT aims to identify existing research gaps on Ethiopian land policy issues so that future studies can be commissioned.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land administration, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2016
Research paper on the impact of SLLC on tenure security, investment, and incomes
To strengthen previous quantitative findings on how tenure security translates into increased investments, productivity, and incomes, LIFT conducted a mixed methods study with a strong qualitative component in March 2021. We found strong evidence for tenure security effects resulting from SLLC, with significant reductions in disputes, improvements in perceived tenure security, and around one-fifth of households saying they had made additional investments because of SLLC.
Focus area: Research Results
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Growth and investment, Land rental, Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report) Research study
Year produced: 2021
Roadmap for sustainable monitoring system for Rural Land Administration and Use Directorate (RLAUD)
This roadmap aims to create an efficient monitoring system for the Rural Land Administration and Use Directorate activities, so that performance indicators can be reviewed and met.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: User guide
Year produced: 2016
Satellite woreda approach – overview on performance and sustainability
This study assesses the impact of the Satellite Woreda Approach on rural land administration performance of 28 woredas and critical success factors to institutionalise the approach
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Land administration
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2020
SDO guidelines: procedure to build capacity of field teams on social issues
This document provides a detailed procedure for second level land certification (SLLC) field staff to ensure women and vulnerable groups participate in SLLC.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion
Type of resource: User guide
Year produced: 2018
