Second level land certification outcome survey
This survey examines the impact of second level land certification (SLLC) on tenure security, disputes, land rental, credit markets and changes in investment.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land tenure and certification, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report)
Year produced: 2020
SLLC Manual
This manual describes the process and detailed procedures of second level land certification (SLLC) and forms the basis of training materials for staff involved in the SLLC process
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: User guide
Year produced: 2018
SNNP Regional RLAS Manual
This manual for the SNNP 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
Strategies towards financial sustainability of RLAS
This study looks at the financial sustainability of the rural land administration system (RLAS) 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: Strategy
Year produced: 2017
Strategy for preventing and mitigating land certification-related violence against women and vulnerable groups
This study examines how second level land certification (SLLC) is sensitive to the needs of women and VGs and to understand the positive and negative consequences of SLLC and outlines how to mitigate land certification-related violence towards women and vulnerable groups
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land tenure and certification, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Strategy
Year produced: 2017
Strategy for registering orphan children during SLLC
This study examines the challenges orphan children face in securing their land rights and provides a strategy to ensure long-term access to their land use rights.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2018
Strategy for the registration of polygamous wives during SLLC
This study provides recommendations for standard second level land certification (SLLC) procedures to be adopted when registering polygamous households’ landholdings in Ethiopia.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land tenure and certification, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Strategy
Year produced: 2017
Strategy to address legal constraints of women and vulnerable groups to secure their land rights
This strategy assesses the gaps in the provision, understanding and implementation of laws/articles and their impact on women and vulnerable groups (VGs) with respect to land use rights and provides a strategy to overcome these legal constraints that affect women and VG’s land rights security.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land administration, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Strategy
Year produced: 2019
Strategy to effectively engage women and vulnerable groups during SLLC
This study 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, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Strategy
Year produced: 2017
Streamlining retail regulation to improve farmers’ access to agricultural inputs
This policy brief analyses retail regulations regarding agricultural inputs and recommends further action to improve market access for smallholder farmers.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Agricultural inputs for sustainability
Type of resource: Policy brief
Year produced: 2019
Streamlining retail regulation to improve farmers’ access to agricultural inputs
This policy brief analyses retail regulations regarding agricultural inputs and recommends further action to improve market access for smallholder farmers.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Agricultural inputs for sustainability, Land administration
Type of resource: Policy brief
Year produced: 2019
Streamlining retail regulation to improve farmers’ access to agricultural inputs
This policy brief analyses retail regulations regarding agricultural inputs and recommends further action to improve market access for smallholder farmers.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Agricultural inputs for sustainability
Type of resource: Policy brief
Year produced: 2019
Strengthening agricultural input distribution channels through rural input retailers
This case study analyses how interventions implemented by LIFT have improved the functioning of environmentally sustainable agricultural input markets.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Agricultural inputs for sustainability
Type of resource: Case study
Year produced: 2019
Study for the provision of effective legal services for women and vulnerable groups
This study examines and provides recommendations as well as practical, strategic interventions to enable women and VGs access legal aid services and secure their land rights.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2019
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
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
Technical assistance on cost–benefit analysis enabling MFIs to allocate resources efficiently
This summary analyses technical assistance on cost–benefit analysis, provided by LIFT to microfinance institutions (MFIs) to help them assess the impact of a new agricultural loan product.
Focus area: Tools and guidelines
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Technical assistance summary
Year produced: 2019
The catalytic impact of market systems innovations in land certification programs – evidence from two large-scale household surveys in Ethiopia
Based on two large-scale quantitative household surveys conducted in 2019, this paper discusses evidence of how a combination of second level land certification, rural land administration systems and market systems thinking can incentivise landholders to participate in land administration, while also accelerating investment, productivity and income effects.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Land administration, Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2020
The impact of the EEU access to finance and land rental interventions on rural Ethiopian households (first round data collection in 2017)
This survey report provides findings of a survey to measure the impacts of LIFT’s rural land rental market and access to finance interventions.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Land rental
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report)
Year produced: 2017
The impact of the EEU access to finance and land rental interventions on rural Ethiopian households (second round data collection in 2019)
This survey report provides findings of a survey to measure the impacts of LIFT’s rural land rental market and access to finance interventions.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Land rental
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report)
Year produced: 2019
