IFAD land tenure indicators

Purpose

Main purpose is to provide an indicative budget.

Types of data used

Opnion of exports using a scoring card

Methodology

Cluster and potential indicator/sub indicators

A) Strengthening the capacity of the rural poor and their organizations

B) Improving equitable access to productive natural resources and technology

C) Increasing access to financial services and markets

D) Gender issues

E) Public resources management and accountability

Area of Governance

Land Governance

Pro-poor /gender sensitive aspects

Indicators particularily address the situation of the poor and women

Example indicators

Scoring matrix for the indicator Access to land

		5	4	3	2
A	Access to land for rural households	The law guarantees secure, equal and enforceable land rights to all	Generally secure	A majority of rural poor households have some access but this access is often insecure	No access or insecure access
B	Access to land for women, indigenous populations and other vulnerbale groups	The law guarantees secure, equal and enforcable land rights to poor men and women	Generally secure	Frequently, vulnerable groups do not enjoy the same access as other poor groups	No access or insecure access
C	Land tenure	Secure and enforceable land rights. The majority of land holdings are titled or registered.	Land titling or registration is common.	Owned land is sometimes registered; leased and rented land is mainly unregistered or leases are out-ofdate	Property rights are not formally recognized by laws (or the laws are not applied) or are subject to easy termination or diminution.
D	Formal land markets	Function effectively	Function to some degree. Are used by some poor rural men and women..	Functioning to some degree but largely inaccessible to the rural poor	Not accessible to the rural poor. Informal markets are either absent or limited in scope
E	Regulation for the allocation and management of common property resources	Clear and equitable	Concrete efforts to improve the regulation are currently made by the government	Vague, unclear and largely unimplemented	No regulation; open access to common property resources

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Actionability

teh indicator is quite actionable, as it details governance gas. but some findings are not directly translateable to policy interventions.

Complementarity

teh indictor set is very complementary, and looks both at laws and regulations, as well as how they are implemented/

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