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Graduate Student Research (2020 Deadline)
Ethiopia - Project E3-004: Sustainability of the Land Registration Information System in Ethiopia: Levers for Access to Credit and Sustainable Landscape Investment.
Mentor: Feyera Wakjira, Addis Ababa University
Mentee: Shewakena Abab
Dates: July 2020 - December 2021
Project Overview
In the rapidly changing world, land and property rights are fundamental to the use and governance of environmental resources. Sustainability is essential to the ability of land administration systems to withstand transforming social and environmental changes. The land registration information systems (LRIS) are the backbone of a functional land administration systems. To reduce widespread tenure insecurity and its negative impacts on investment, Ethiopia has been undertaken one of the largest, cheapest, and fastest land certification programs in Africa since late 1990s (Bezu and Holden, 2014). About 15 years have passed since the first-level land certification was completed, with close to 20 million parcels being registered and certified. After successful pilots, the Second-Level Land Certification (SLLC) roll out has been under way since 2013. The program has received increasingly broad support from various development partners such as USAID, the World Bank, and the development agencies of the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Norway, and Canada. Researchers argue that the theory that land titling would increase opportunities to access to credit does not generally hold in developing economies is not practically proved in Ethiopia. However, there are project-based monitoring reports, but no rigorous empirical research documented on whether the SLLC increases the opportunity to smallholder to access to credit and help them to sustainable landscape investment (SLI).
Final Summary of Project Activities
Therefore, this project was aimed at examining the sustainability of LRIS in Ethiopia that levers access to credit and SLI. It supported the doctoral dissertation research of Shewakena Aytenfisu Abab, including two draft papers that used USAID-funded impact evaluation studies survey datasets. Thanks to PEER support, Dr. Abab has already published four journal articles in addition to a dissertation monograph.
Publications
Shewakena Aytenfisu Abab, Feyera Senbeta, and Tamirat Tefera Negash. 2023. The Effect of Land Tenure Institutional Factors on Small Landholders’ Sustainable Land Management Investment: Evidence from the Highlands of Ethiopia. Sustainability 2023, 15, 9150. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129150
Shewakena Aytenfisu Abab, Feyera Senbeta Wakjira, and Tamirat Tefera Negash. 2023. The Effect of Policy and Technological Innovations of Land Tenure on Small Landholders’ Credit-Worthiness: Evidence from Ethiopia. Land 2023, 12, 1055. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12051055
Shewakena Aytenfisu Abab, Feyera Senbeta Wakjira, and Tamirat Tefera Negash. 2022. Factors Influencing the Formalization of Rural Land Transactions in Ethiopia: A Theory of Planned Behavior Approach. Land 2022, 11, 633. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11050633
Shewakena Aytenfisu Abab, Feyera Senbeta Wakjira, and Tamirat Tefera Negash. 2021. Determinants of the Land Registration Information System Operational Success: Empirical
Evidence from Ethiopia. Land 2021, 10, 1394. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10121394
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