The Feed the Future Ethiopia Land Governance Activity (LGA) is a five-year project funded by USAID, following three successfully implemented land governance projects it supported during 2005 – 2018, i.e. (i) Ethiopia Land Tenure Administration Project (ELTAP) 2005- 2008; Ethiopia Land Administration Project (ELAP) 2008-2013, and Land Administration to Nurture Development (LAND) 2013-2018. The overall goal of LGA is to assist the Government of Ethiopia (GoE), its regions and citizens to strengthen land governance, increase incomes, reduce conflict, and support well-planned urbanization, thereby contributing to the country’s Ten-Year Development Plan. To help achieve this purpose, the LGA works in close partnership with relevant institutions in the GoE, Ethiopian academic and research institutions, civil society, the private sector, and other development partners operating in the land sector to implement activities under two components. Component 1 strengthens the national land governance system, while Component 2 expands communal land tenure security in pastoral areas.

This dataset presents the results of the quantitative baseline study conducted in the pilot urban and peri-urban areas of Dukem Town, from January 20, 2021 to February 20, 2021, to establish baseline data for comparison to support the program impact measurement as part of future project evaluation and to guide a realistic and feasible target setting for the selected performance indicators. A household survey was administered to a representative sample of 171 households (out of the 1,500 targeted households) in Dukem town to collect quantitative data with a questionnaire length of an average of 50 minutes. All personally identifiable information (e.g., GIS data) was removed from the dataset to protect the personal information of survey respondents.