Look at Ethiopia! A simplified and result oriented development and implementation of a low cost land administration system
Backstrom, Lennart
Amhara National Regional State in Ethiopia started a project for development and implementation of tenure security for rural areas. Many people in the region, experts within the authority and internationals said that it was impossible and many in the region were even against the development. With a handful of motivated persons within the authority the project managed to change the opinion and already within one year the Amhara Region put the land issue top on its agenda and the Federal level showed an interested in the activities. When the project started the responsible authority had no experience of Land Administration System, no trained staffs and only a small group of people believed it was possible to establish tenure security. Within the project more then 1000 staffs was trained for the work and within three years, more then 2.4 million rights to land were registered and more then 1.3 million households got their certificates. What was very special with the Land Administration System developed and implemented in Amhara Region was that it is built on a strong participation of regional and district officers and also of farmers in the whole process. The WB found that the example of Amhara illustrates that use of a very participatory process has allowed to produce first stage certificates at very low-cost and also that it has a good potential for future sustainability.
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