Land Administration to Nurture Development (LAND) Quarterly Report No. 10, July–September 2015

These projects were implemented in 2005-2008 and 2008-2013, respectively, and were financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Ethiopia Mission and implemented by the federal Ministry of Agriculture and six regional states with technical assistance provided by Tetra Tech. The LAND project will be implemented to achieve four objectives: improved legal and policy frameworks at national and local levels, strengthened capacity in national, regional, and local land administration and use planning, strengthened capacity of Ethiopian universities to engage in policy analysis and research related to land tenure and train land administration and land use professionals, and strengthened community land rights in pastoral and agro-pastoral areas to facilitate market linkages and economic growth. The LAND project will be implemented with and through the Ministry of Agriculture's Land Administration and Use Directorate (MOA/LAUD) at the national level and the land administration bureaus of Afar, Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, Somali, and Tigray regional states. On a minor scale, training support in rural land administration will be provided to Beneshangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Harari, and Dire Dawa City Administrative Council. The project will deepen and broaden the policy, legal, and regulatory framework governing rural land tenure and property rights (LTPR) and expand its capacity-building support at all levels of government to ensure sustainability of past USAID investments. The LAND project will assist Ethiopian universities to strengthen their capacity to train land administration officials and professionals in survey and certification procedures and property rights, including women's land use rights, conflict mitigation, and land use planning. This will provide a sustainable training mechanism and supply of skilled land administration officials beyond the life of LAND. In pastoral areas, LAND will pilot activities to demarcate and certify community boundaries and strengthen community land holding governance entities in which community title to land will vest and that will represent the community before government and in dealings with investors. LAND will work closely with the Pastoralists Resiliency Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) project, also supported by USAID, and regional governments to develop participatory land use plans. LAND will also support the creation of an enabling environment in which PRIME will develop opportunities for linking communities to markets. LAND activities in pastoral areas will help improve governance at the local level by assisting communities with decision-making rights over their natural assets: land, water, and other natural resources. The LAND project's activities will be implemented to achieve the following outcomes: improved legal and policy frameworks at national and local levels, strengthened capacity in national, regional, and local land administration and use planning, strengthened capacity of Ethiopian universities to engage in policy analysis and research related to land tenure and train land administration and land use professionals, and strengthened community land rights in pastoral and agro-pastoral areas to facilitate market linkages and economic growth. The project will also support the development of participatory land use plans and the creation of an enabling environment for linking communities to markets. The LAND project will be implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture's Land Administration and Use Directorate (MOA/LAUD) at the national level and the land administration bureaus of Afar, Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, Somali, and Tigray regional states. The project will also provide training support in rural land administration to Beneshangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Harari, and Dire Dawa City Administrative Council. The project's activities will be implemented in the last quarter of FY 2014/2015 (July 1 to September 30, 2015).