LAND ADMINISTRATION TO NURTURE

DEVELOPMENT (LAND)

Abebe Mulatu

Objectives

Nov. 14, 2014

Introduction

• A successor Project to two previous successfully

implemented land admin projects,

i.e. Ethiopia – Strengthening Land Administration

Program (ELTAP) 2005 – 2008; and

Ethiopia – Strengthening Land Administration

• ELTAP & ELAP were pilot Projects implemented in the

four regional states of Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and

Tigray, Afar & Somali:

• piloted rural lands surveying and registration using

various measuring equipment and systematic parcel various measuring equipment and systematic parcel

based registration system.

• assisted regional states in developing their land

administration and use laws;

• introduced Public information and awareness campaigns

to make landholders know their land rights & their duties

• Built the capacity of federal and regional land

administration agencies

Ministry of Agriculture

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Surveying, Registration & Certification

Achievements under ELTAP and ELAP

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No. of Communal Land Parcels surveyed & Registered: 44,025

No. of Individual Parcels surveyed & Registered: 850,666

No. of Households whose lands surveyed & Registered: 230,271

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Ministry of Agriculture

Achievements under ELTAP and ELAP• 20,000 copies of LALU laws

printed and distributed

• PIA campaigns targeted at rural

communities, particularly

women to inform them on their

land rights & obligations

- Radio broadcasts, Video drama - Radio broadcasts, Video drama

Booklets, Leaflets, Posters

- High school mini-media were

used

- 4102 staffs trained in LALU

topics (734 women)

- 7,118 persons participated

in LALU workshops

- 61 staff participated in

international study tours

- 9 LALU topics were studied

• A particular emphasis of ELAP was developing the

pastoral land policy & legal framework in Afar and

Somali regional states:

• Afar regional state issued a pastoral lands • Afar regional state issued a pastoral lands

proclamation, regulation and guideline

• Somali regional state approved its pastoral lands

policy and proclamation

Land Administration to Nurture Development

(LAND) 2013 - 2018

LAND is:

A project implemented by GoE with USAID funding. A project implemented by GoE with USAID funding.

Tetra Tech ARD of USA, is contracted to provide

technical assistance and project management services

Project activities are implemented with & through the

Ministry of Agriculture’s Land Administration and Use

Directorate (MOA/LAUD) & the regional land

administration bureaus of Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Somali,

SNNP, and Tigray.

LAND has four Components:

• Improving legal and policy frameworks at national

and regional levels;

• Strengthening capacity in national, regional, and • Strengthening capacity in national, regional, and

local land administration and use planning;

• Strengthening capacity of Ethiopian Universities

to engage in policy analysis and research related

to land tenure and train land administration and

& land use professionals ; and

• Strengthening community land rights in pastoral

& agro-pastoral areas to facilitate market

linkages and improve pastoral livelihoods

Project Achievements to Date

Under Component 1• a study on the implementation of the rural land

administration laws in Amhara and SNNP commissioned

• Somali regional state being assisted in drafting the • Somali regional state being assisted in drafting the

pastoral lands administration regulation

• MOA being assisted in amending rural lands

administration and rural lands registration proclamation

• Commissioning Bahir Dar, Debub, Haramaya; and

Mekele universities law schools to develop rural land

laws and property rights training manuals for their

respective regions

Project Achievements to Date Under Component 1

• A national workshop on land use policy & land use

planning being organized;

• Land law training for woreda and zonal

administration staff in Afar, Tigray and Somali

regional states conducted

Project Achievements to Date Under Component 2:

• post graduate program study at Bahir Dar University,

ILA started for 42 land administration experts from the

regionalregional

states of Afar, Amhara, SNNP, Oromia, Somali, Harrari,

Beneshangul and Gambela and city administraitons of

Addis Ababa & Dire Dawa

• CORS in Jimma, Gondar, and Addis were made

operational for EMA

Project Achievements to Date

Under Component 3:

• A network of land research and development called

ETHIOLANDNET established to promote research on

land issues in Ethiopia and provide a forum for land issues in Ethiopia and provide a forum for

discussing and exchanging information on land issues

being formed

• Ethiopian institutions working on land research and

development are members

• Bilateral & multilateral institutions working on land

matters will be invited to join the network

Project Achievements to Date

Under Component 3:

• A competitive research grant scheme established to

promote research on land issues. The first round of promote research on land issues. The first round of

grants is being processed.

Project Achievements to Date Under Component 4:

• A study in the pastoral areas of Oromia is being

conducted to document the communal land tenure and conducted to document the communal land tenure and

governance situation in order to inform drafting of the

Oromia pastoral communal lands registration and

governance regulation

Project Achievements to Date

Under Component 4:

• The Oromia Pastoral advisory committee,• The Oromia Pastoral advisory committee,

in charge of advising the regional government on

pastoral land rights and related issues was initiated

& established at regional and zonal levels.

Significance of LAND to agricultural development and

inclusiveness

• Ensuring tenure security of farmers and pastoralists is

indispensable for agricultural productivity and

environmental protection

• Land policies and laws should be strengthened to ensure

tenure security of farmers and pastoralists

• For policies and laws to be properly translated and

implemented, public institutions should be strengthened.

• Laws and policies should also be strengthened to protect

& ensure the equal rights of omen & other vulnerable

groups.

• LAND is working in all these areas that are fundamental

and basic to agricultural productivity & inclusiveness