Document Type: Monitoring and Evaluation

This report is an initial assessment of land tenure and property rights in Angola. It was intended to be used to further refine and test land tenure and property rights assessment tools. The assessment tools provide an in-depth rapid land tenure and property rights assessment that would identify and rank important land issues and provide the information needed to design useful interventions. The assessment and the related findings and recommendations are broken down into the following categories: (1) Conflicts and Instability; (2) Insecure Land and Property Rights; (3) Landlessness and Inequitable Land Distribution; (4) Poorly Performing Land Markets; and (5) Unsustainable Natural Resources Management. Each category includes a description of: (1) the team’s on-the-ground assessment; (2) current donor activities in the area; and (3) recommendations for USAID intervention.

The assessment was created to assist USAID/Ethiopia in clarifying the technical elements and technical assistance needed to implement a program intervention aimed at increasing security of tenure and rights for land. The exercise analyzed land tenure security, land policy, land administration, land management, and related issues, including the transferability of land use rights and land certification programs as they impact food security and agricultural development in Ethiopia.

This report assesses how property rights are currently influencing conflict, investment, agriculture, and municipal governance in Kosovo. The report also identifies possible areas where USAID/Kosovo might provide technical assistance to draft laws, strengthen institutions, and/or resolve conflicts which will enhance household property security and business investment, improve economic growth, and lead to more effective local governance.