When establishing a comparison group in land, care should be taken to avoid splitting communities which are under the same land administration unit. During Land Tenure Facilitation, a road was used to form program and comparison groups. The road split left the community split in half. Although the split was good from a statistical point of view as the households and land were comparable, it created problems at a practical level as these households were all under the same land administrative unit. Beyond the practical issues, when looking at effects and longer-term sustainability of land governance systems, it is helpful to have your whole administrative area mapped and registered. Two divergent systems of land rights are difficult to manage and sustain.
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