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   Secure Land Tenure Rights for All: Key Condition for Sustainable Development

   Successful Approaches and Their Impacts

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   July, 2019

   Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, Namibia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil, Peru, Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Eastern Europe, Global

   cadastral administration

   community land rights

   customary tenure

   displacement

   eviction

   gender equity in access to land

   informal settlements

   land registration

   land rights

   land tenure systems

   private ownership

   public ownership

   tenure security

   tenure regularization

   The aim of this policy paper is to present successful approaches to secure land tenure rights in rural and urban areas. To support future programmatic decisions by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), this paper focusses especially on impacts and good practices. It discusses examples from the German technical cooperation but also includes good practices and impacts achieved by other development partners.

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   Rural Land Administration and Use System Implementation, Council of Regional Government Regulation No. 51/2007.

   Regulations

   May, 2007

   Ethiopia

   Land Conflicts

   Land & Gender

   agricultural land management

   farmland

   public ownership

   land-use planning

   farming systems

   cadastres

   land registration

   surveyors

   land

   gender equity in access to land

   private ownership

   land dispute resolution

   land ownership

   This Regulation concerns rural land management and rights and use of rural land in Amhara National Region. It seeks to create favourable conditions enabling the land administration system to promote long-lasting agricultural development and productivity in the regional state by causing the full implementation of the rights and obligations pertaining to the rural land holders as are stipulated under the Revised Rural Land Administration and Use Determination Proclamation.

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   Rural Land Administration Proclamation of the Federal Government of Ethiopia (No. 89/1997).

   Legislation

   Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa

   Land & Gender

   use rights

   gender equity in access to land

   public ownership

   land law

   This basic piece of legislation sets out principles and lays the foundations for laws relative to land tenure and administration of rural land are to be enacted by Regional Councils in respect of each Region of Ethiopia and in accordance with the present Proclamation, laws on environmental protection and land utilization policies. (Rural) land is declared to be a common property of the “Nations, Nationalities and Peoples” of Ethiopia and it is prescribed that land shall not be subject to sale or other means of exchange.

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   Food Security Strategy.

   National Policies

   Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa

   Land & Gender

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   private ownership

   public ownership

   pastoralists

   land-use planning

   farming systems

   farmers

   sustainable land use

   gender equity in access to land

   rural population

   grazing

   land

   The present Food Security Strategy (FSS) updates the original one of 1996 by sharpening the strategic elements to address food insecurity based on lessons learned. In recognition that the pursuit of food security is a long-term and multi-sector challenge, institutional strengthening and capacity building is included as a central element of the Strategy.