Implementation Support Project for the Land Facility Decision Support Unit
This research paper has been commissioned through the Land Facility Decision Support Unit (DSU) to synthesise both relevant academic literature and evaluation reports of land programmes, covering the evaluative experience of the land sector over the past decade. The study analyses evaluation approaches across a range of land programmes and donors to draw out relevant lessons for evaluating interventions that support land governance reform. The objective of the research is to draw out relevant lessons for the Land Facility and the land evaluation community more broadly, with a specific focus on what is relevant for international development programming that aims to contribute to land governance reform.
Our analysis finds that there is a gap in the literature in evaluating land governance reform in a way that the complexities of political economy and institutional structures and incentives are systemically considered and analysed. These findings are especially relevant as evaluation approaches are having to adapt to a new funding context in which international development programming will focus more on partnerships and work through diplomacy to leverage incremental changes in institutional ‘superstructures’ with large, expected development outcomes.
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Authors: Cadmus – Enrico Neumann, Joseph Holden, Nicole Naysmith
Date of publication: May 2026
Resource language: English
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