MANAGING FRAGMENTED INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS IN ETHIOPIA

In Ethiopia, rural land administration services are provided by regional states under the guidance, oversight, and support of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, through its Land Administration and Use Directorate under the Natural Resource Sector. At regional state level, land administration services were originally provided by land administration offices under the Agriculture Bureaus in the six regional states of Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, Tigray, Gambela and Benishangul-Gumuz (the other regional states. The land administration office in Amhara and Afar region was later elevated to a separate Bureau for rural land. It is Rural land administration and use bureau in Amhara, Environmental protection, rural land administration and use bureau in Afar; and investment, rural land administration and use bureau in Benishangul-Gumuz regions.