LAND ADMINISTRATION TO NURTURE DEVELOPMENT (LAND)

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LAND ADMINISTRATION TO NURTURE DEVELOPMENT (LAND) Quarterly Report No. 19 October–December 2017

JANUARY 2018

This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by Tetra Tech.

This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development by Tetra Tech, through Land Administration to Nurture Development Project / USAID Contract No. AID-OAA-I-12-00032/AID-663-TO-13-00005, under the Strengthening Tenure and Resource Rights (STARR) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC).

This report was prepared by:

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Photo Credits: All photos in this report are by Tetra Tech unless otherwise noted. Report cover: Partial view of participants validating the map prepared for Soda reera, a sub-unit of the Dirre Dheeda communal pastoral landholding of the Borana Zone of the Oromia Regional State (NRS) on November 2017 at Mega town. Back cover: Some of the participants of the public information and awareness campaign held in Wanaba Kebele of Chifra Woreda, Afar NRS as part of the preparatory activities for registering communal pastoral landholdings.

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January 2018 DISCLAIMER The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government.

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CONTENTS

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................... II

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................ IV

1.0 . INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND ............................................................... 1

2.0 . PROJECT ACTIVITIES .............................................................................................. 3

2.1 PROJECT ACTIVITIES BY COMPONENT ................................................................. 3

2.1.1 Component I. Improved Legal and Policy Frameworks at National and Local Levels ....................... 3 2.1.2 Component 2: Strengthened Capacity in National, Regional, and Local Land Administration and

Land Use Planning ................................................................................................................................................ 5 2.1.3 Component 3: Strengthened Capacity of Ethiopian Universities and Research Organizations in

Rural Land Tenure Policy Analysis and Research and Training of LALU Professionals ..................... 6 2.1.4 Component 4: Strengthened Community Land Rights in Pastoral Areas to Facilitate Market

Linkages and Economic Growth ...................................................................................................................... 7 2.1.5 Mainstreaming Gender in Formulating and Amending Rural Land Laws ................................................ 9

ANNEX I: SUCCESS STORY ......................................................................................... 15

ANNEX II: PROJECT BRIEF UPDATE ......................................................................... 18

ANNEX III: MEDIA .......................................................................................................... 20

ANNEX IV: TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS ............................................................. 21

ANNEX V: PROJECT STAFF ......................................................................................... 22

ANNEX VI: FIELD TRIPS ............................................................................................... 25

ANNEX VII: VISITORS ................................................................................................... 26

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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

AEPLAUA Afar Environmental Protection and Land Administration and Use Agency

APS Annual Program Statement

BDU Bahir Dar University

CGS Competitive Grant Scheme

CoC Certificate of Competency

CORS Continuously Operating Reference Station

CLGE Community Landholding Governance Entity

ELAP Ethiopian Land Administration Program

ELTAP Ethiopian Strengthening Land Tenure and Administration Program

EMA Ethiopian Mapping Agency

FWLRTF Federal Women’s Land Rights Task Force

GIS Geographic Information System

GMP Grants Management Plan

GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System

GUC Grants under Contract

GoE Government of Ethiopia

GTP Growth and Transformation Plan

ILA/BDU Institute of Land Administration of Bahir Dar University

INSA Information Network Security Agency

IPAS/HU Institute of Pastoral and Agro-pastoral Studies of Haramaya University

LALU Land Administration and Land Use

LAND Land Administration to Nurture Development Project

LAUD Land Administration and Use Directorate

LAUTT Land Administration and Use Task Team

LTPR Land Tenure and Property Rights

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LUP Land Use Planning

M&E Monitoring & Evaluation

MoANR Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources

MoDUH Ministry of Urban Development and Housing

MSc Master of Science

MSU Michigan State University

NRS National Regional State

OPUS Online Positioning User Service

ORLAUB Oromia Rural Land Administration and Use Bureau

OS Occupational Standard

PIA Public Information and Awareness

PLAC Pastoral Landholding Adjudication Committees

PRIME Pastoralists Resiliency Improvement and Market Expansion Project

REILA Reliable and Innovative Land Administration

RTK Real Time Kinematic

PRL Property Rights Lawyer

ROPAC Regional Oromia Pastoral Advisory Committee

RULAUB Rural Land Administration and Use Bureau

SNNP Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples

TF Task Force

ToR Terms of Reference

ToT Training of Trainers

TVET Technical Vocational Education and Training

USAID United States Agency for International Development

WAD Women’s Affairs Directorate

WLRTF Women Land Rights Task Force

ZOPAC Zonal Oromia Pastoral Advisory Committee

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the last quarter, the Land Administration to Nurture Development (LAND) Program made considerable progress across all program components, particularly Component 4, Strengthened Community Land Rights in Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Areas to Facilitate Market Linkages and Economic Growth.

UNDER COMPONENT 1 (IMPROVED LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS AT NATIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS)

LAND provided technical and financial support to prepare the federal Expropriation, Valuation, Compensation and Resettlement Proclamation and Regulation, which will replace the current expropriation, valuation, and compensation proclamation No. 455/2005 and Regulation 135/2007. LAND’s Property Rights Lawyer (PRL) and MoANR’s Land Lawyer are members of the Drafting Committee and participated in three legislative drafting retreats with stakeholders over the course of 20 days in Adama town. The Drafting Committee presented and discussed proposed amendments with ministry officials that were then sent to the Attorney General’s Office for comment. The draft amendments were subsequently revised and translated into English by the LAND PRL and submitted to the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing MoUDH. LAND is informed that the draft amendments were submitted to the CoM that will then present them to Parliament to be passed into law.

The draft Afar NRS Pastoral Lands Expropriation, Valuation, and Compensation Guideline and the Draft Pastoral Lands Registration and Management Regulation were reviewed by government who recommended that the drafts be revised and presented to pastoral community representatives before finalization. UNDER COMPONENT 2 (STRENGTHENED CAPACITY IN NATIONAL, REGIONAL, AND LOCAL LAND ADMINISTRATION AND USE PLANNING):

LAND engaged a local consultant to simplify the local level participatory land use planning manual produced by the Rural Land Administration and Use Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources (RuLAUD/MoANR) with LAND assistance. The final draft of the manual is now being translated into Amharic, Tigrigna and Oromifa.

UNDER COMPONENT 3 (STRENGTHENED CAPACITY OF ETHIOPIAN UNIVERSITIES TO ENGAGE IN POLICY ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH RELATED TO LAND TENURE AND TRAIN LAND ADMINISTRATION AND LAND USE PROFESSIONALS)

LAND is supporting a total of 82 mid-career land administration officials at the federal, regional and woreda-levels of government to earn an M.Sc. degree in land administration from the Institute of Land Administration at Bahir Dar University (ILA/BDU). Thus far, 63 students have earned their degree and the remaining 19 are making good progress towards doing so.

UNDER COMPONENT 4 (STRENGTHENED COMMUNITY LAND RIGHTS IN PASTORAL AND AGRO-PASTORAL AREAS TO FACILITATE MARKET LINKAGES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH):

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In November 2017, the community land governance entities (CLGEs) formed in the three pilot dheedas of Dirre, Malbe and Golbo in the Borana Zone were formally recognized by the Zone’s Deputy Administrator at a ceremony held in Yabello town and attended by all the dheeda and reera leaders and representatives of the Chief Aba Gada. Discussions on draft model dheeda bylaws LAND assisted to develop were also conducted with the leadership of the three pilot dheedas in November 2017 at Teltelle and Mega towns. All three dheeda leaders requested modifications. Articles that define membership and require payments for use rights by non-members drew intense discussion. Their comments were noted and will be addressed in the next iteration of the model bylaws LAND will help to develop. LAND completed field activities to register the boundaries of the Dirre Dheeda during October11 - Novmber15, 2017. The Dirre Dheeda measures 746,000 ha and includes 404 villages or ollas with 8,932 households. Similar field work was carried out in Malbe dheeda during December 6-31, 2017 with the participation of an expert from the RuLAUD/MoANR. The total area of Malbe dheeda is about 1.2 million ha. The registration process will be completed during the next quarter when LAND will support validation workshops with the affected and neighboring communities and public display of the map data to finalize the dheeda’s boundaries.

UNDER MAINSTREAMING GENDER ISSUES IN LAND ACTIVITIES:

The LAND Gender Specialist wrote a paper for Mekelle University on land rights of women in Ethiopia. She also presented a paper at the 2017 Conference on Land Policy in Africa, organized by the Africa Land Policy Center. She participated as a panelist on the events highlighting gender-based Violence, LAND organized a workshop, that aims to bring members of the federal and regional task forces together in order to learn from new research findings and discuss on the sustainability of the national and regional Women Land Rights Task Forces (WLRTFs.) Three research findings on Gender and Land issues were presented by researchers of Mekelle University and Bahir Dar University.

LAND’S FOCUS IN THE REMAINING PERIOD OF THE PROJECT

LAND’s will focus on completing the following tasks during January and February 2018:

i. Support finalization of the federal Expropriation, Valuation, Compensation and Resettlement Proclamation and Regulation and the amendment to the Rural Land Administration and Use Proclamation;

ii. Organize a regional workshop to discuss provisions of the draft Oromia NRS Pastoral Communal Landholding Administration, Registration and Management Regulation with representatives from five pastoral zones of the Oromia NRS;

iii. Organize a regional workshop to discuss provisions of the draft Afar NRS Pastoral Land Governance Regulation with representatives from all five zones of the Afar NRS;

iv. Finalize demarcation and registration of Malbe and Golbo dheeda pastoral land holdings in Oromia NRS;

v. Demarcate, map and adjudicate 7 kebele pastoral landholdings in Amibara and Chifra woredas of the Afar NRS;

vi. Prepare draft National Integrated Land Use Policy paper; vii. Finalize production of 12 minutes video narrating the experience and lessons learnt during

the process of formalizing pastoralists’ land rights in Oromia and Afar NRSs; and viii. Conduct a final closing out national workshop to highlight the achievements of LAND and

the lessons learnt.

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1.0 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

LAND plays a pivotal role in the life of the people of Ethiopia and the development of its economy. More than three-quarters of the population derive their income from agriculture; social and cultural norms in rural areas are largely shaped by land use practices. Maintaining agriculture as a major source of economic growth is a pillar in Ethiopia’s Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) accords high priority to the sustainable use and management of land and its proper governance in the nation’s agenda for food security, poverty reduction, and accelerated economic growth to achieve the status of a middle-income country.

The purpose of the Land Administration to Nurture Development (LAND) project is to expand and extend two previously successful projects—Ethiopia Strengthening Land Tenure and Land Administration Program (ELTAP) implemented in 2005-2008 and Ethiopia Strengthening Land Administration Program (ELAP) implemented in 2008-2013—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. These projects helped strengthen rural land tenure security and women’s land use rights, encouraged efficient land transactions, built capacity of federal and regional land administration agencies to improve service delivery, and piloted cadastral surveying and certification methodologies to recognize and document rural land use rights.

LAND’s activities are being implemented to achieve four objectives:

1. Improved legal and policy frameworks at national and local levels;

2. Strengthened capacity in national, regional, and local land administration and land use planning;

3. 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

4. Strengthened community land rights in pastoral and agro-pastoral areas to facilitate market linkages and economic growth.

LAND is implemented with and through the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources’ Rural Land Administration and Use Directorate (MoANR/RuLAUD) at the national level and the land administration bureaus of Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples (SNNP), Somali and Tigray National Regional States (NRS). On a minor scale, training support in rural land administration is being provided to Beneshangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Harari and Dire Dawa City Administrative Council. LAND is working to further 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. LAND is assisting 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 is piloting activities to demarcate, register and certify boundaries of pastoral community landholdings and strengthen community landholding governance entities (CLGEs) in which


community title to land will vest and that will represent the community before government and in dealings with investors. LAND also supports creation of an enabling environment in which the Pastoralists Resiliency Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) Project 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.

This is the quarterly report of LAND covering the progress made in its implementation during the first quarter of FY 2018 (October1 to December 31, 2017).


2.0 PROJECT ACTIVITIES 2.1 PROJECT ACTIVITIES BY COMPONENT 2.1.1 COMPONENT I. IMPROVED LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS AT NATIONAL AND

LOCAL LEVELS

Activity 1.1: Review National and Regional Land Administration and Land Use Legislation (LALU) and Certification Practices and Assess Customary Land Administration and Natural Resource Management Practices in Pastoral Areas

Task 1.1.1: Assess implementation of rural LALU legislation.

During the previous reporting period Mekelle University produced its document brief presenting findings and recommendations to help strengthen Tigray NRS’ rural land administration and use legislation. Mekelle University’s brief is the final university assessment of NRS land administration and use legislation produced with LAND assistance. Its findings and recommendations will inform LAND’s assistance to Tigray NRS to amend its rural land laws during the remainder of LAND’s current period of performance and its proposed extended period of performance if granted by USAID.

Task 1.1.2: Assess customary land administration and natural resource management (NRM) practices to inform development of legislation to strengthen tenure security for pastoral communities.

This task was completed in FY 2016.

Activity 1.2: Assistance to Develop and Amend Federal and Regional LALU Legislation

Task 1.2.1: Amend Federal Rural LALU Proclamation No. 456/2005.

LAND has been in close contact with MoANR to expedite processing of the draft amendment to Proclamation No. 456/2005 “Rural Land Administration and Use”. The MoANR’s Rural Land Administration and Use Directorate (RuLAUD) produced final draft amendments to the proclamation with technical and financial assistance provided by LAND. RuLAUD informed LAND that the draft will be sent to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in the next quarter for vetting before its submission to the Council of Ministers (CoM).

Task 1.2.2: Amend Federal Property Expropriation and Compensation Proclamation No. 455/2005.

LAND is providing technical and financial assistance to the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing (MoUDH) that is leading development of amendments to Federal Proclamation No. 455/2005 “Expropriation of Landholdings for Public Purposes and Payment of Compensation” and CoM Regulation No. 135/2007 with additional support from the MoANR. The comprehensive set of amendments will serve to produce a new proclamation to replace the existing one.

LAND’s Property Rights Lawyer (PRL) and MoANR’s Land Lawyer are members of the Drafting Committee and participated in three legislative drafting retreats with stakeholders over the course of 20 days in Adama town. The Drafting Committee presented and discussed proposed amendments with ministry officials that were then sent to the Attorney General’s Office for comment. The draft amendments were subsequently revised and translated into English by the LAND PRL and submitted to


MoUDH. LAND is informed that the draft amendments were submitted to the CoM that will then present them to Parliament to be passed into law.

Task 1.2.3: Amend Regional Rural LALU Proclamations.

Regional states’ amendments to their land administration and use proclamations must comply with the final amendments to Federal Proclamation No. 456/2005 enacted by Parliament. LAND has proposed to USAID, in the event its period of performance is extended, to simultaneously provide technical assistance and financial and logistical support to the Amhara, Afar, Beneshengul Gumuz, Gambella, Harari, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray NRSs to begin to amend and bring their land administration and use proclamations into compliance with the final draft of the federal proclamation while it is pending enactment by Parliament.

Task 1.2.4: Finalize Oromia Draft Pastoral Land Management and Registration Regulation

The Oromia Pastoral Land Registration and Management Regulation was prepared with technical and financial assistance provided by LAND in early 2017 and translated into Oromifa. In recognition that the regulation’s enactment into law could take a significant amount of time and delay piloting of activities to demarcate and register pastoral landholdings, the Oromia Rural Land Administration and Use Bureau (ORLAUB) issued guidelines in July 2017.

The guidelines contain the salient legal provisions contained in the draft regulation and provide the legal basis to begin demarcation and registration of pilot dheedas selected for LAND’s interventions. The guidelines also empower Community Land Governance Entities (CLGEs) to strengthen and enhance customary laws and practices to more transparently and effectively manage natural resources on behalf of the community by developing bylaws for their respective dheedas. LAND experts produced a model dheeda bylaw that was presented to ORLAUB’s legal department to ensure its compliance with Ethiopian law. ORLAUB’s legal department translated the model bylaw into the Oromifa language, which was presented to community representatives in the Borana Zone for comment and feedback. LAND will assist development of revised by laws based on community inputs in the next quarter.

Regarding enactment of the regulation, stakeholder consultations on the draft regulation was scheduled for October 2017. Unfortunately, they had to be postponed due to the civil unrest that erupted along the Somali and Oromia NRS borders. It is now expected that consultations will take place and a final draft of the regulation will be produced in February 2018.

Task 1.2.5: Develop Afar NRS Pastoral Land Expropriation and Compensation Guidelines.

LAND provided the Afar Environmental Protection and Land Administration and Use Agency (AEPLAUA) with technical and financial assistance to produce a first draft of its Pastoral Lands Expropriation, Valuation, and Compensation Guideline in January 2017. LAND’s PRL participated in two days of consultations with experts from AEPLAUE and other government bureaus in Logia town of the NRS on November 2-3, 2017. The experts recommended revisions to the draft guidelines that should be incorporated before presenting them to pastoral communities in consultation workshops before finalization during the next quarter.

Task 1.2.6: Develop the Afar NRS Pastoral Land Governance Regulation.

LAND commissioned a consultant to assist the AEPLAUA to develop its Draft Pastoral Lands Registration and pastoral communal land governance regulation. LAND then supported an experts’ workshop to discuss and obtain comment and feedback on the draft regulation. A final draft regulation incorporating the feedback was produced and presented to AEPLAU senior management in October


2016. LAND will support consultation workshops with community and government stakeholders and anticipates the final version of the regulation will be approved in the next quarter. 2.1.2 COMPONENT 2: STRENGTHENED CAPACITY IN NATIONAL, REGIONAL, AND

LOCAL LAND ADMINISTRATION AND LAND USE PLANNING

Activity 2.1: Support Development of a National Land Use Policy

Task 2.1.1: Prepare Draft Comprehensive National Land Use Policy and Road Map for Preparing a National Land Use Plan

LAND commissioned three national consultants to produce framework documents to guide development of Ethiopia’s National Integrated Land Use Policy (NILUP). The framework documents were presented in a national stakeholders’ workshop in March 2017 and LAND produced a final version of the documents that incorporated feedback from the workshop. The framework documents must now be converted into a brief and well-articulated single NILUP paper. LAND has developed a scope of work to engage a national consultant to work closely with and guided a panel of experts drawn from all the relevant sector ministries and agencies to produce the document. LAND expects to engage the consultant to begin work with the panel of experts in January 2018.

Activity 2.2: Support the Management of CORS to Provide Information for Land Surveying and Mapping Purposes.

LAND concluded its support to the Ethiopia Mapping Agency (EMA) on the management of CORS on January12, 2017. LAND then provided the final draft of the project proposal developed for densification of the CORS infrastructure and the EMA need assessment document to strengthen the capacity of EMA were submitted to EMA for further action.

Activity 2.3: Train Federal, Regional and Woreda-Level Land Administration Officials on Best Practices Related to the Development of Land Use Plans and the Use of CORS and GIS Technologies

This task was completed in 2016.

Activity 2.4: Develop Inclusive and Cost- Effective Land Use Planning Methodologies in Selected Regions.

LAND engaged a local consultant to support the RuLAUD/MoANR to revise the local level participatory land use planning manual which was drafted in 2012 with financial assistance from the Sustainable Land Management Project (SLMP). The technical assistance was required to make the manual simple and concise for communities to follow. LAND supported a series of consultative workshops with government experts and community representatives to inform its development. Upon request of RuLAUD/MoANR, LAND is supporting translation of the manual into the Amharic, Tigrigna and Oromifa languages and expects the work to be completed during the next quarter. Activity 2.5: Deliver Regional Training to Land Administration Officials, Judges, and Women on Legal Issues and Procedures Related to Land Administration, Conflict Resolution, and Transfer of Rights

Task 2.5.1: Develop training manuals and Train Federal and Regional Staff on Federal and Regional Rural LALU Legislation for regional training programs.



Task 2.5.2: Develop Training Manual on Rural Land Expropriation, Valuation and Compensation Principles and the Federal Expropriation Legislation and Train Federal and Regional TOTs.


Activity 2.5: Implement Consultation Workshops to Bring Judges, Land Administration Officials, and Traditional Dispute Resolvers Together to Discuss Opportunities to Strengthen Ties between Customary and Formal Legal Systems in Ethiopia

LAND will begin to support these consultation workshops in Oromia NRS during the next quarter.

2.1.3 COMPONENT 3: STRENGTHENED CAPACITY OF ETHIOPIAN UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS IN RURAL LAND TENURE POLICY ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH AND TRAINING OF LALU PROFESSIONALS

Activity 3.1: Strengthen TVET Curricula and Propose Improvements Needed to Meet the Government of Ethiopia’s Demand for Land Administration Officials

No progress was made on this activity during the reporting quarter.

Activity 3.2: Provide Certification Courses for Land Administration Officials

This activity was started at ILA/BDU in 2014, when 42 students were admitted to the summer M.Sc. program. A total of 36 students of graduated from the program, including 3 that completed their studies during the quarter. Of the remaining 6 students, 2 are waiting to defend their thesis; 2 attempted to defend their thesis but were not successful and will be given a second chance; and 2 students withdrew from the program.

A second group of 42 students entered the program in 2015. A total of 27 students graduated from the program, including 23 that completed their studies during the quarter. The remaining 15 students are in the process of preparing their theses.

Activity 3.3: Develop a Research and Development Network to Engage in Rigorous Policy Analysis (ETHIOLANDNET)

LAND supported ETHIOLANDNET to establish a repository of published and unpublished research reports on land sector issues in Ethiopia that can be accessed through its website. LAND’s PRL assisted ETHIOLANDNET to develop copyright policies to help ensure public access to research in the repository is in compliance with Ethiopia’s copyright law. ETHIOLANDNET has begun to implement the policy. ETHIOLANDNET has expressed its interest to continue its collaboration with LAND to expand its repository and improve access to it.

Activity 3.4: Establish a Competitive Research Grant Program to Advance Knowledge on Causal Linkages among Land Tenure Security, Food Security, Economic Growth, and Natural Resources Management

Final administrative closeout of grants issued under LAND’s Competitive Grants Scheme is in process and will conclude in the next quarter. LAND will support publication of the grantees final research reports. One report is completed and will be published in the coming quarter. LAND anticipates the other 5 reports will be edited finalized in the next quarter.


2.1.4 COMPONENT 4: STRENGTHENED COMMUNITY LAND RIGHTS IN PASTORAL AREAS TO FACILITATE MARKET LINKAGES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Activity 4.1 Formal Establishment of Community Land Governance Entities (CLGEs) In November 2017, the CLGEs in the three pilot dheedas of Dirre, Malbe and Golbo in the Borana Zone were officially established at a ceremony officiated by the deputy Borana Zone Administrator, Obbo Abdulsalam Wariyo. It is noted that LAND’s experts discovered that the customary structure governing the Golbo dheeda had disintegrated over time and ceased to function. LAND conducted a rapid assessment to identify the reasons why. LAND presented its findings to the Chief Abba Gadda and Borana Zone officials to assist them to successfully reconstruct the customary dheeda structure and make it operational.

Obbo Abdulsalam Wariyo stated at the event that the Borana are one of the major pastoral groups in Ethiopia who have requested formalization of their land rights. Though much time was spent on discussing the modalities for pastoral land registration and certification, recent achievements are highly encouraging. He noted that the LAND Project played a significant role in leading the process and indicated that the work that has been done in Dirre dheeda brings the Oromia NRS government closer to addressing the demand of all pastoral communities for formalized land rights. LAND also notes that the legal status that will be afforded to CLGEs once the Oromia NRS Oromia National Regional State Pastoral Communal Landholding Administration, Registration and Management Regulation is enacted will significantly help to restore the authority of customary pastoral institutions that has eroded over time. The event also provided the opportunity to discuss with the CLGE representatives from the three pilot locations lessons learned from adjudication, demarcation, and registration of the Dirre dheeda that could be applied to the Malbe and Golbo dheedas. The representatives explained that much of the border between the SPNNR NRS and Malbe dheeda is marked by the Segen River, which is a well-defined natural boundary and does not require adjudication; the Golbo dheeda has a long international border with Kenya, which also does not require adjudication; and, the borders of Malbe and Golbo dheedas neighboring the Dirre dheeda have already been adjudicated. While adjudication of these boundaries will speed up the work in neighboring dheedas, additional challenges remain. These include competing boundary claims between the Golbo community and those in Somali Region near Moyale; disagreements between Malbe and Golbo dheedas over a motorized water pump in the area known as Galchat; and, both Malbe and Golbo dheedas have thick bush in some areas which may pose a challenge for demarcation and adjudication. Discussions on draft model dheeda bylaws LAND assisted to develop were also conducted with the leadership of the three pilot dheedas in November 2017 at Teltelle and Mega towns. All three dheeda leaders requested modifications. Articles that define membership and require payments for use rights by non-members drew intense discussion. Their comments were noted and will be addressed in the next iteration of the model bylaws LAND will help to develop. Activity 4.2 Demarcation, mapping, adjudication and registration of communal pastoral landholdings LAND supported ORLAUB and the Dirre community to establish Pastoral Land Adjudication Committees (PLACs) to adjudicate and demarcate the boundaries of the community’s 746,000 hectare dheeda landholding. LAND helped facilitate agreement with neighboring communities over the dheeda’s outer boundaries and then, on December 16, 2017, supported a validation workshop in Yabello town.

A total of 89 participants attended the workshop, representing pastoral communities, woreda and zonal land administration and use officials and experts. Of these, 83 participants (6 women) were members of


the pastoral community. They were grouped into their respective reeras to provide their opinions and validate both the boundary map and textual information indicated on the map. This assisted LAND’s efforts to support adjudication and demarcation of the boundaries of six of the Dirre reeras (sub-grazing units). Although the reera boundaries were adjudicated, LAND was unable to complete mapping of all service points due to rains that blocked access to them. Thus far, 404 villages or ollas, with 8,932 households, 40 schools, 17 human health posts, 9 animal health posts, 9 mosques/churches were mapped (See Figure 1 below). Mapping of the remaining service points will be completed during the dry season in the next quarter.

Following the validation workshop, the dheeda map and corresponding textual information was posted in 30 public access sites for the public to view and make clarifications or raise objections. The map will remain on display for a period of one month. Thirty woreda and kebele government staff were assigned to collect public feedback and document any objections on a daily basis. LAND provided training to the government staff on collecting information from the public and conducting follow up to resolve any issues raised before the map can be finalized, registered and used to certify rights to the Dirre Dheeda communal pastoral landholding.

e Dheeda Map Produced by Oromia NRS Government and LAND Experts with Participation of Pastoral munities of Dirre and Adjoining Gomole, Malbe and Wayama Dheeda Pastoral Communities


Similar field work was carried out in Malbe dheeda during December 6-31, 2017 with the participation of an expert from the RuLAUD/MoANR. The total area of Malbe dheeda is about 1.2 million ha. It has 10 reeras which were demarcated, mapped and adjudicated. Similarly, the social service sites were surveyed and mapped. It was noted that there is a persistent boundary problem between Quancharro and Gelchati reera in one spot. However, this is an internal matter that the Abba Dheeda and the Aba Reeras can solve and will not affect registration of Malbe Dheeda pastoral landholding. Similar to what was done at Dirre Dheeda, a validation workshop will be conducted and the maps and textual data will be displayed at public places and feedback obtained from the pastoral communities in Malbe and adjacent dheedas.

2.1.5 MAINSTREAMING GENDER IN FORMULATING AND AMENDING RURAL LAND LAWS

A number of activities were undertaken to mainstream gender in formulating and amending rural land laws. As part of awareness raising program, LAND in collaboration with RuLAUD/MoANR, submitted a paper to Mekelle University in November 2017 responding to a call for papers on gender related issues in rural land administration. The paper discusses the land rights of women in Ethiopia. It mainly focuses on the land rights which are enshrined under the federal rural land administration and use laws. It also presents the gaps in protections for the land rights of women and the opportunities and potential solutions to address them.

During the celebration of 16 days of activism against Gender-Based Violence (25 November to 10 December, 2017) LAND’s Gender Specialist participated as a panelist in an event organized by the Christian Relief Society on14th December, 2017. The Specialist pointed out that research findings show that securing land rights of women reduces vulnerability to gender-based violence.

The Specialist also co-authored a paper with an expert from the MoANR that was presented at the 2017 Conference on Land Policy in Africa, organized by the African Land Policy Center. The conference was held from 14-17th November at the UN Economic Commission for Africa. The paper discusses the challenge that was faced in incorporating gender issues in the amendments of rural laws in Ethiopia. The lack of civic organizations actively working in mainstreaming gender issues in laws, particularly rural land laws, motivated LAND to initiate the establishment of the national and regional Women’s Land Rights Task Forces (WLRTFs) which work closely with federal and regional legal drafting committees in identifying and proposing solutions that affect women and vulnerable groups.

LAND’s Gender Specialist took part in an international conference held in Cape Town on November 26 to December1, 2017 with the theme of 'Tackling the Root Causes of Displacement in Sub-Sahara Africa’. The Gender specialist presented a paper on the experience of Ethiopia that the rural land policy is one of the push factors for migration, particularly among women. Upon her return, she shared the information she gathered at the conference with the LAND team. The entire cost of her participation was covered by the organizers of the conference.

LAND organized a workshop in Adama Town on 27-28th December, 2017 that brought together members of the federal and regional task forces to learn from new research findings and discuss on the sustainability of the WLRTF. Three research findings on Gender and Land issues were presented by researchers from Mekelle University and Bahir Dar University. Moreover, participants from regional WLRTF were able to share information and discuss sustainability of the network.

2.1.6 MONITORING AND EVALUATION

USAID/Ethiopia conducted data quality analysis of the metrics LAND uses to monitor its performance and issued its report in mid-November 2017. The ratings were as follows:


No. Indicator Score 1. Data validity 2.00 out of 2.00 2. Data reliability 1.66 out of 2.00 3. Timeliness 2.00 out of 2.00 4. Precision 2.00 out of 2.00 5. Integrity 1.00 out of 2.00

Overall score 1.70 out of 2.00

The lowest score related to the integrity of collected data. The analysis found discrepancies between the data Bahir Dar University (BDU) provided to LAND about the number of the M.Sc. students enrolled in its program and their progress towards earning their degree and the data maintained at BDU. In regards data reliability, the analysis found that the instrument used to collect the number of pastoral households whose communal pastoral landholdings are demarcated and registered may not capture changes due to population dynamics. USAID recommended that mechanisms should be put in place to prevent unauthorized data changes and that government and community institutions should be trained to maintain the integrity of data. Cumulative data on LAND’s performance indicators is presented in Table 1.


TABLE 1: PERFORMANCE INDICATORS BY COMPONENTS

Indicator

Type 2018 July – Sept 2017 2018 Cumulative 2018 Cumulative FY 2013-2018 Target Actual Varian

ce Target Actual Varianc

e Target Actual Variance

O.1: The number of households or organizations with formalized land rights as a result of USG assistance (disaggregates by sex, individual collective right and type of entity –household, community, commercial, other).

Communities 11 0 100% 10 0 100% 11 0 100%

O.2: The number of disputed land and property rights cases resolved by local authorities, contractors. Mediators or courts as a result of USG assistance.

Outcome/NEW STARR IQC.

0% above

BL

0 100% 30% above BL

0 100% Actual %

0 100%

O 3: Number of private enterprises, producers organizations, water user associations, women’s groups, trade and business associations and community-based organizations (CBOs) that applied new technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance

New Tech-nologies

10 0 100% 10 0 100% 60 0 100%

O.4: The number of specific pieces of legislation or implementing regulations proposed, adopted, and/or implemented affecting property rights of the urban and rural poor as a result of USG assistance (disaggregate by Stage: 1=Analyzed; 2=Drafted and presented for public/stakeholder consultation; 3=Presented for legislation/decree; 4=Passed/approved; 5=Passed for which implementation has begun)

Legislation NEW STARR /IQC

2 0 100% 2 0 100% 15 0 100%

1.1: Number of policies, regulations, and administrative procedures in each of the following stages of development (analyzed, drafted, & presented, passed, or Being implemented) as a result of USG assistance. (CDCS and FTF)

Policies

2

1

50%

2

1

50%

15

5

77%


Indicator




Analyzed Stage 4 Drafted Stage Expropriation of Lands for Public purposed, and payment of compensation proclamation No. 455/2005(amend) Presented Stage Passed Stage 1 Being Implemented Stage 1.3: Number of consultative and participatory processes conducted

Consultative process

6 8 0% 6 8 0% 50 54 0%

2.1: The number of individual trained in land tenure and property right as a result of USG assistance.

Persons _NEW

STARR IQC

576 T = 100% 0 T 94% 6535 71376 85%

M =M = M 63547

F= F 7720

2.2: Number of land administration professionals receiving university certification

Persons (M,F) 40

0 89% 35

36 0% 75 36 0%

2.4: Number of judges with reported stronger capacity

Persons 75 0 100% 75 0 100% 275 00 100%

2.5: Number of training curricula materials successfully developed

Curricula 0 0 100% 0 4 0% 7 4 42%

2.6: Number of land administration personnel with reported stronger capacity

persons 100 36 64% 100

36 64% 600 151 69%

2.6: Number of land administration and service entities, offices, or other related facilities that the project technically or physically establishes or upgrades as a result of USG assistance.(disaggregate by established or upgraded and between “technically” and “physically” supported).

Entities 4 3 25% 4 3 25% 5 6 0%

3.1: Number of new USG –funded awards to institutions in support of development research.

Output FACTS Mission

0 0 0 0 0 0% 10 6 40%

3.2: Number of institutions/organizations making significant improvements based on recommendations made via USG-supported assessment

Outcome; FACTS

0 0 100% 0 0

100 5 5 0%


Indicator




4.1: Number of pastoral/agro-pastoral communities with land use plans focused on water resources developed through participatory processes

Communities

0 0 100% 10 0

100% TBD 0 100%

4.2: Number of projects/activities conducted by communities that contribute to their land use plans

Project activities 0 0 100% 30 0

100% TBD 0 100%

4.3: 4.3 The number of parcels1 with relevant parcel information corrected or newly incorporated into an official land administration system (whether a system for the property registry, cadaster, or an integrated system) as a result of USG assistance (disaggregate by parcels corrected or newly incorporated).

Hectares 11 parcel

1,946,000 100% 11 Parcel 1,946,000 100% 11 1,946,000 hector

100%

4.4: Number of stakeholders participating in consultations to generate participatory land use plans

Individuals 0 0

100% 0 0 100% TBD 0

100%

4.5: Number of public-private dialogue mechanisms utilized as a result of USG assistance

Dialog Mechanisms 0 0

100% 0 0 100% 10 0

100%

4.6: Number of pastoral communities with stronger capacity to engage with private sector investors

Communities 0 0

100% 0 0 100% 11 0

100%

4.7: Number of community landholding governance entities (CLGE) that are operational

CLGE 11 3 63% 11

3 63% 11 3

63%

4.8: Number of site profiles completed Site Profiles 0 0 0%

0 0 0%

8 8 0%

4.9: Number of studies (e.g., land tenure challenges) and assessments (e.g., customary land and natural

Studies 0 0

100% 0 0 75% 7 7 0%

1 Parcel means the boundary of single pastoral community land holding that has been adjudicated, demarcated and registered as a single polygon on an official land administration map. LAND will report the number of hectares of land comprising each community land holding parcel. As noted under indicator O.1, LAND will also report on the estimated number of households located within the parcel.


Indicator




resource management law assessments) successfully completed 4.10: Number of individuals participating on LAND- sponsored study tours

Individuals 0 0 0% 0 0 0% 2 4 0%

4.11: Number of food security private enterprises (for- profit), producer organizations, water user associations, women’s groups, trade and business associations, and community-based organizations (CBOs) receiving USG assistance

CBOs 20 0 100% 20 0 100% TBD 0 100%

G.1: Proportion of female participants in USG-assisted programs designed to increase access to productive economic resources (asset, credit, income, or employment)

% of female TBD 0 100 % TBD 0 100 % TBD 0 100%

G.2: Number of laws, policies, or procedures drafted, proposed, or adopted to promote gender equality at the regional, national, or local levels

Laws 3 0 100% 3 0 100% 10 3 70%


ANNEX I: SUCCESS STORY


Oromia National Regional State Helps to Restore the Authority of Pastoralists to Manage their Landholdings

Pastoral communities in the Borana Zone of Oromia National Regional State (NRS) developed time tested resiliency strategies to sustainably manage rangeland resources that have served them well during times of drought and other natural calamities. Each community possesses customary rights over landholdings known as a dheeda, which contains both wet and dry season grazing pastures. Each dheeda is subdivided into sub-grazing units called reeras that are managed according to a set of customary rules and regulations enforced by a traditional governance system comprising a council of elders at both the reera and dheeda levels, each headed by an Abba (father). This customary governance system was strong and worked very well until the 1970s when the local kebele government administration units (typically smaller than a reera) were established. Kebele administration officials who were not mandated to allocate and manage land, started making decisions on these matters without consulting the customary leaders of the pastoral community. They issued decisions that often contradicted and served to undermine the authority of the Abba Reeras and Abba Dheedas. For example, official decisions increased by the number and size of kalos (private enclosures on communal land) and authorized establishment of individual crop farms on highly productive dry season grazing areas despite opposition from customary authorities. The relationship between local administration authorities and customary authorities became adversarial rather than cooperative. As a result, an institutional vacuum was created in which the authority of customary institutions eroded and local government did not effectively manage rangelands leading to degraded resources, reduced livestock productivity, and weakened tenure security for pastoral communities. To address these issues, LAND is assisting the Oromia NRS to develop legislation that will formalize customary rights of pastoral communities, recognize the boundaries of their customary landholdings and establish customary governance structures as legal entities to hold and manage communal resources on behalf of the community. Development of the legislation, however, was delayed because the government and community could not reach agreement on the spatial characteristics of the communities’ landholdings. Government insisted the landholdings align with kebele boundaries while the communities argued for recognition of their customary rights to possess dheeda land. LAND facilitated discussions and negotiations between the parties to resolve the impasse. It also provided government experts with the findings from its situation analysis of the customary resource management systems demonstrating that the existing administrative boundaries do not provide access to seasonal pastures and support the mobility necessary for viable livestock production. After nearly three years of negotiations Oromia officials accepted the communities’ arguments and developed, with assistance from LAND, legislation providing the legal basis to


register and certify community landholdings and enabling customary institutions to function as Community Land Governance Entities (CLGEs) that will hold title to communal land, manage rangeland resources and represent the community in dealings with third parties including the government and the private sector. In November 2017, LAND assisted three communities to establish their CLGE in compliance with the legislation. LAND trained CLGE members and the community at large on their roles and responsibilities under the legislation and, the processes and procedures to demarcate and register the boundaries of their dheeda landholdings. LAND will further support the CLGE through training to help them establish more transparent and accountable governance practices and build skills in office and financial management and negotiations with government agencies and third parties. The Malbe dheeda customary leader, Mr. Dima Doyo, said, “The Borana depend on their dheeda and reera grazing system for rangeland management. This system and the customary institutional leaders have been neglected by the formal administration, and this negligence has caused numerous rangeland problems. The recent recognition of our governance system has already empowered us to take some important measures and manage our rangeland resources in a better way. We dismantled several private kalos and put them back into communal landholding” Mr. Samphole Jilo, an Abba Reera in the Dirre Dheeda said, “Certifying our land use rights for us and strengthening our customary leadership is the best program ever implemented in Borana. All other programs cannot be sustainable unless our land use rights are protected and our customary leadership strengthened.”

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ANNEX II: PROJECT BRIEF UPDATE The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Land Administration to Nurture Development (LAND) project in Ethiopia is a five-year intervention designed to build upon the success of its two previous land tenure and property rights (LTPR) interventions. LAND is implemented with and through the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources’ Land Administration and Use Directorate (MoANR/LAUD) at the national level and the land administration bureaus of Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples (SNNP), Somali and Tigray NRS. On a minor scale, training support in rural land administration would be provided to Beneshangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Harari and Dire Dawa City Administrative Council. LAND’s activities are implemented under four components:

1. Improve legal and policy frameworks at national and local levels;

2. Strengthen capacity in national, regional, and local land administration and use planning;

3. Strengthen capacity of Ethiopian universities to engage in policy analysis and research related to land tenure and train land administration and land use professionals; and

4. Strengthen community land rights in pastoral and agro-pastoral areas to facilitate market linkages and economic growth.

During the quarter LAND provided technical and financial support to prepare the federal Expropriation, Valuation, Compensation and Resettlement Proclamation and Regulation, which will replace the current expropriation, valuation, and compensation proclamation No. 455/2005 and Regulation 135/2007. LAND’s Property Rights Lawyer (PRL) and MoANR’s Land Lawyer are members of the Drafting Committee and participated in three legislative drafting retreats with stakeholders over the course of 20 days in Adama town. The Drafting Committee presented and discussed proposed amendments with ministry officials that were then sent to the Attorney General’s Office for comment. The draft amendments were subsequently revised and translated into English by the LAND PRL and submitted to the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing MoUDH. LAND is informed that the draft amendments were submitted to the CoM that will then present them to Parliament to be passed into law. The draft Afar NRS Pastoral Lands Expropriation, Valuation, and Compensation Guideline and the Draft Pastoral Lands Registration and Management Regulation developed with LAND assistance, were reviewed by government officials who recommended that the drafts be revised and presented to pastoral community representatives before finalization.

LAND engaged a local consultant to simplify the local level participatory land use planning manual produced by the Rural Land Administration and Use Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources (RuLAUD/MoANR) with LAND assistance. The final draft of the manual is now being translated into Amharic, Tigrigna and Oromifa languages.

LAND is supporting a total of 82 mid-career land administration officials at the federal, regional and woreda-levels of government to earn an M.Sc. degree in land administration from the Institute of Land Administration at Bahir Dar University (ILA/BDU). Thus far, 63 students have earned their degree and the remaining 19 are making good progress towards doing so.

In November 2017, the community land governance entities (CLGEs) formed in the three pilot dheedas of Dirre, Malbe and Golbo in the Borana Zone were formally recognized by the Zone’s Deputy Administrator at a ceremony held in Yabello town and attended by all the dheeda and reera leaders and representatives of the Chief Aba Gada. Discussions on draft model dheeda bylaws LAND assisted to


develop were also conducted with the leadership of the three pilot dheedas in November 2017 at Teltelle and Mega towns. All three dheeda leaders requested modifications. Articles that define membership and require payments for use rights by non-members drew intense discussion. Their comments were noted and will be addressed in the next iteration of the model bylaws LAND will help to develop. LAND completed field activities to register the boundaries of the Dirre Dheeda during October11 - Novmber15, 2017. The Dirre Dheeda measures 746,000 ha and includes 404 villages or ollas with 8,932 households. Similar field work was carried out in Malbe dheeda during December 6-31, 2017 with the participation of an expert from the RuLAUD/MoANR. The total area of Malbe dheeda is about 1.2 million ha. The registration process will be completed during the next quarter when LAND will support validation workshops with the affected and neighboring communities and public display of the map data to finalize the dheeda’s boundaries.

The LAND Gender Specialist wrote a paper for Mekelle University on land rights of women in Ethiopia. She also presented a paper at the 2017 Conference on Land Policy in Africa, organized by the Africa Land Policy Center. She participated as a panelist on the events highlighting gender-based Violence, LAND organized a workshop, that aims to bring members of the federal and regional task forces together in order to learn from new research findings and discuss on the sustainability of the national and regional Women Land Rights Task Forces (WLRTFs.) Three research findings on Gender and Land issues were presented by researchers of Mekelle University and Bahir Dar University. LAND will focus its efforts to complete a number of priority activities during its remaining period of performance. These include finalization of the federal Expropriation, Valuation, Compensation and Resettlement Proclamation and Regulation and the amendment to the federal Rural Land Administration and Use Proclamation. LAND will organize a regional workshop to discuss provisions of the draft Oromia NRS Pastoral Communal Landholding Administration, Registration and Management Regulation with representatives from five pastoral zones of the Oromia NRS. It will organize a similar workshop in Afar NRS to discuss provisions of its NRS Pastoral Land Governance Regulation with representatives from all five zones of the Afar NRS. LAND will complete registration of the Malbe and Golbo dheeda pastoral land holdings in Oromia NRS as well as registration of 7 kebele pastoral landholdings in Amibara and Chifra woredas of the Afar NRS. It will prepare the draft National Integrated Land Use Policy paper. It will produce a 12 minutes video narrating the experience and lessons learnt during the process of formalizing pastoralists’ land rights in Oromia and Afar NRSs and conduct a final closing out national workshop to highlight the achievements of LAND and the lessons learnt.

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ANNEX III: MEDIA LAND did not have an event/workshop to attract media coverage during this quarter.


ANNEX IV: TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS

TIME FRAME OCT.–DEC. 2017

TYPE/PURPOSE OF WORKSHOP/ TRAINING

PARTICIPANTS, ORGANIZATION

REGION VENUE NO. PARTICIPANTS

FEMALE MALE TOTAL

11-12/10/2017

Golbo Dheeda Management leaders meetings

Pastoral Community leaders Oromia Dire 1 29 30

21/10/2017 Land Certification process consultation field work

Abba Gada, Abba Reera, Zonal head , Elders, Head Woreda, Surveyor

Oromia Yabello 0 19 19

24-26/10/2017

Woreda OPAC consultation meeting

Clan Leader, Agriculture Office, Woreda administration office, water office, Woreda women affairs, MUDA, FUDCA

Addis Ababa

LAND office

3 15 18

25-27/10/2017

Woreda OPAC member consultation meeting

Clan leader, Pastoral agriculture office, woreda office, water office, women affairs

Oromia Samson Kebele

37 93 130

26/10/2017 Pastoral Community Members

Pastoral community members Afar Chifra Woreda, Wenabe Kebele

0 119 119

28/10/2017 Land Certification process consultation meeting

Pastoral community members, Aba Reera, Aba Gada, Elders, Surveyors, Zonal head

Oromia Yabello 0 22 22

30/10/2017 Land Certification process consultation meeting

Aba Dheeda, Aba Reera, Expert, Zonal and Woreda Heads

Oromia Soddo Reera

0 17 17

09/11/2017 Dheeda Management leaders meeting

Aba Reera, Aba Malbe, Aba Golbe, Aba Dheeda

Oromia Sodo Reera 0 25 25

27-28/12/ 2017

National Women’s Land right taskforce workshop

Legal Service Head, Assistant professor, land administration expert, Land use coordinator, gender expert, Director, etc.

Oromia Adama town

9 13 22

Total participated on USG events 50 352 402


ANNEX V: PROJECT STAFF CATEGORY NO NAME POSITION/

EXPERTISE EMAIL ORG INPUT

Home Office 1 Solomon Bekure (PhD)

Chief of Party [email protected]

Tetra Tech ARD U.S.A.

May 27, 2013

2 Jack Keefe Associate, Land Tenure & Property Rights LAND Senior Technical Advisor/ Manager

[email protected] Tetra Tech ARD U.S.A.

ongoing

3 David Felson Land Project Manager

[email protected] Tetra Tech ARD U.S.A.

ongoing

Ethiopia Local Experts

4 Mr. Abebe Mulatu

Property Rights Lawyer

[email protected] Tetra Tech ARD Ethiopia

April 1,2013

5 Kelemework Tafere (PhD)

Pastoral Land Tenure Specialist


April 1, 2013

To

Dec. 31, 2013

6 Mr. Alehegne Dagnew

Land Administration & Land Use Planning Specialist


April 1,2013

7 Ms. Medhanit Adamu

Gender Specialist [email protected] Tetra Tech ARD Ethiopia

May 1,2013

To

July 31,2015

8 Ms. Amelework Haileslassie

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

[email protected] Win rock International

May 1,2013

9 Prof. Belay Kassa Deputy Chief of Party


Jan 20 2014

To

March 31,2014

10 Ms. Kibnesh Chala

Communication Specialist

[email protected] Winrock International

April 7, 2014–June 31, 2015

11 Aregay Waktola (PhD)

Deputy Chief of Party


May1, 2014

12 Mr. Did Boru Oromia Regional Coordinator


June 2, 2014

To


CATEGORY NO NAME POSITION/ EXPERTISE

EMAIL ORG INPUT

Dec. 31, 2016

13 Dr. Dejene Negassa

Pastoral Land Tenure Specialist

[email protected] Tetra Tech ARD, Ethiopia

August 1, 2014

14 Mr. Tegegn Argaw

Assistant Grant Manager

[email protected] Tetra Tech ARD, Ethiopia

August 4, 2014 To

April 23, 2016

15 Mr. Getachew Dibaba

Communications Specialist

[email protected] Win rock International

Sept. 14, 2015

To

Nov. 15, 2016

16 Humed Abdella Afar Regional Coordinator


Dec 04, 2015

17 Ms. Selam G/Tsion

Gender Specialist [email protected] Tetra Tech ARD Ethiopia

Oct. 19, 2015

18 Abenet Solomon Afar Senior GIS Expert


May 1, 2016

19 Alemayehu Degefa

Assistant Grant and Information Manager


August 1, 2016

20 Ms. Bethlehem Negash

Communication Manager

[email protected]

Win rock International

February 20, 2017

Ethiopia Admin and Finance Staff

21 Ms. Hiwot Melesse

Operations Manager


May 1,2013

22 Mr. Abebe Tumaye

Finance Officer [email protected] Tetra Tech ARD Ethiopia

May 1,2013

23 Ms. Luna Demtsu

Admin & Finance Assistant


May 1,2013

24 Ms. Serkalem Tadesse

Secretary [email protected] Tetra Tech ARD Ethiopia

May 1,2013

25 Mr. Berhanu Guta

IT Assistant [email protected] Tetra Tech ARD Ethiopia

May 1,2013

26 Mr. Amha Getachew

Facilitator/Driver [email protected] Tetra Tech ARD Ethiopia

May 1,2013


CATEGORY NO NAME POSITION/ EXPERTISE

EMAIL ORG INPUT

27 Mr. Mulugeta Assefa

Facilitator/Driver [email protected] Tetra Tech ARD Ethiopia

May 1,2013

To

May 31,2016

Ethiopia Maintenance Staff

28 Ms. Roman Girma

Canteen and cleaning service

Tetra Tech ARD Ethiopia

April 1, 2013

29 Mr. Berhanu Lema

Oromia Region Driver


June 2, 2014

30 Mr. Mohammed Abubeker

Driver Tetra Tech ARD Ethiopia

December 4, 2015

31 Mr. Teramed Zegeye

Driver [email protected] Tetra Tech ARD Ethiopia

January 5, 2015


ANNEX VI: FIELD TRIPS No. Date Place Name Purpose

1 October 3 - 7, 2017 Rift Valley Hotel, Adama Ato Abebe Mulatu To revise the Land Law compensation with Government stakeholders.

2 Oct. 9 - Nov.13, 2017

Oromia Regional State, YabelloTown

Ato Alehegne Dagnew To assist the zonal office, provide technical assistance in map preparation and to oversee the quality of surveying, mapping, adjudication and registration of communal land

3 Ato Abenet Solomon

4 Ato Alemayehu Degefa

5 October 24 - 27, 2017

Chifra Woreda, Afar Regional State W/O Bethlehem Negash

To do filming and video production on PIA in three Kebeles as preparatory activity for Communal land Registration in pastoral area.

6 November 1- 5, 2017 Afar Regional State, Semera Ato Abebe Mulatu To conduct consultation on draft regulations

7 November 4 - 10, 2017

Oromia Regional State, Yabello Town W/O Bethlehem Negash To shoot film for video production on field exercise

of Communal Land Registration in pastoral area.

8 November 9 -11, 2017

Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar Ato Abebe Tumaye To revise ETHIO LAND NET Budget

9 November 16 - 25, 2017

Oromia Regional State, Shashemene & Yabello Town

Dr. Dejene Negassa Training for the PIA Agents and Adjudication Committee, Reviewing of by laws for three Dheedas and attend CLGES Ceremony

10 Nov. 26 – Dec. 6, 2017 Oromia, Adama & Borana Ato Abebe Mulatu To draft expropriation, valuation and

compensation regulation

11

Dec. 5, 2017 – Jan. 6, 2018

Oromia Region, Borana & Yabello Zone

Ato Alehegne Dagnew To provide technical assistance to Borana Land Administration zone office in demarcation, adjudication and registration of communal land 12 Ato Abenet Solomon


ANNEX VII: VISITORS No. Date Name & Designation Contact Address (Phone, Fax, e-

mail, P.O. Box) Purpose

1 10-Oct-17

Valerie Mc Donell-Leonach, Deputy Director, RME, Palladium Group, UK on assignment for DFID

[email protected] To discuss the LIFT Program at its mid-term review

2 11-Oct-17 Mr. Jack K. Boyson

e-mail: [email protected] Linkedin..com Baltimob MD USA

To discuss about for Land Project

3

12-Oct-17 Dr. Zemen Haddis, Senior Agricultural Policy Advisor Land, Climate & Water Team Leader USAID/Ethiopia

Direct 011-1-30-6403 Off. 011-1-30-6002 Ex. 6403 Mobile: 091-125-3783 Fax: 011-124-2438 e-mail: [email protected]

To discuss about data collecting assessment

4

24-Oct-17

Ato Bizualem Admass, Bureau Head, MoUDH, Mobile: 0911-673823

Meeting to discuss on LAND Law Drafting

5 Ato Addisalem Guta, Senior Legal Officer, FIIDCA Mobile: 0913-486891

6 WO Alemnesh Mulatu, Legal Officer Mobile: 0913-138422 7 Ato HaileMariam Workalemahu, Director,

MUDH Mobile: 0911-109356 8 Ato Adame Egze, Team Leader, FIIDCA Mobile: 0910-481984 9 Ato Melaku Tsegaye, Property Evaluation,

FIIDCA Mobile: 0913-492459 10 Ato Lema Mulugeta, Lawyer, MNA Mobile: 0911-007635 11 Ato Solomon Bizuayen, Senior Expert,

MUDH Mobile: 0911-473416 12 Ato Melaku Gebeyehu Mobile: 0911-603259 13 14 15

6-Dec-17

Dr. Zemen Haddis, Senior Agricultural Policy Advisor Land, Climate & Water Team Leader USAID/Ethiopia

Direct 011-1-30-6403 Off. 011-1-30-6002 Ex. 6403 Mobile: 091-125-3783 Fax: 011-124-2438 e-mail: [email protected] Ato Mirressa Fitte, Deputy Head Rural

Land Administration and Use Bureau, Oromia Regional State

Mobile: 0911-016987 e-mail: [email protected]

Ato Fufa Legesse, Legal Serves Land Mobile: 0926-818182 e-mail: [email protected]

16 12-Dec-17

Ato Bizualem Admass, Bureau Head, MoUDH, Mobile: 0911-673823 To discuss about revise the

draft expropriation proclamation. 17 Ato Haile Mariam Workalemahu, Director,

MUDH Mobile: 0911-109356


U.S. Agency for International Development 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20523

Tel: (202) 712-0000 Fax: (202) 216-3524

www.usaid.gov

http://www.usaid.gov/

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