Training of Farmers (second phase)

Ethiopia has launched scientific land administration system after many years of bisness in managing its crucial economic resource, land.  Albeit lately, many regional states, based on the national land administration and land use proclamation 456/2005, and even some regional states earlier have started and showed commitment to manage their crucial resource scientifically by enacting their own land administration proclamations. Amhara National Regional State is the pioneer region which started to administer its regional rural land by enacting proclamation number 46/2000. The region has revised the proclamation two times to accommodate the rights, restrictions and responsibilities that emancipate economic, social and good governance challenges associated with land. The two revised proclamations are Proclamation 133/2006 and the newly revised proclamation 252/2017. Communicating these proclamations to executing bodies at grass root level is detrimental for the successful accomplishment of the proclamation. EduLAND2 project – funded by Austrian Development Agency – APPEAR program, besides its tremendous activities being executed, is contributing a lot in building the capacity of land administration committees at kebele level.

In the third project year, 106 land administration committees have been selected and trained from four rural kebeles of East Gojjam Administrative Zone. Their discussion in the training was very impressive and they exemplified real grass root level problems and have got appropriate responses by zonal land administration department experts. This fit to purpose training and discussion of the last year program, has motivated the project to expand the training to other kebele land administration committees. Accordingly, 80 land administration committees from another three rural kebeles were nominated and trained in the four project year too. The training participants were not only the land administration committees but also those which have great stakes with rural land administration practices. These participants actively engaged in the training both in delivering training and responding to questions raised by farmers. Five experts from East Gojjam rural land administration and Land Use department, three experts from the three selected weredas, seven experts from land administration institute and the zonal attorney head in total 16 experts were participants in the discussion with farmers.

The training was conducted for two consecutive days and the focus of the training was on the newly revised land administration and land use proclamation 252/2017, the subsequent regulation and directive of the proclamation (Regulation number 159/2018 and directive 1/2018) .The training and subsequent discussion focused on four thematic areas. These are land tenure, land use, land valuation and land development. Farmers raised real ground level problems associated with the execution of the legislation and appropriate responses were delivered by the experts from different institutions. Besides improving their service delivery at their kebele level, the trainees are expected to disseminate what they got in the training to the local community.