The problem of urban utility infrastructure Provision in ethiopia: the case of bahir dar City.
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2012-07
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Addis Ababauniversity
Abstract
Integrated urban utility infrastructure provision is very essential for the modernity,
social and economical development of urban localities. The efficiency these
infrastructure provision is determined by the responsive act of policy makers, utility
authorities, municipalities as well as stakeholders.
Consequently, this study attempted to investigate the issue of municipalities and
urban utility authorities. It accounted the storm water drainage, electric power,
telecommunication and water supply utility infrastructure provision problem in
Ethiopian urban localities.
The problem principally expressed in terms of the planning and institutional
dimensions. The planning dimension is characterized by an organic (unplanned)
nature of urban land and utility infrastructure development basis while the
institutional dimension of the problem is well expressed by uncoordinated system of
urban utility infrastructure provision. Due to these facts the problem resulted in
inefficient use of public finance and urban land, mixing up placement/conflict of
utilities, improperly location/arrangement of utilities, damage of properties and
related problems.
The process, dimensions and the cause-effect relationships of urban utility
infrastructure provision problem and the role of the partners are the major intended
areas of the study. In order to investigate this problem, primary and secondary
cases were collected from the departments of Bahir Dar city Administration and the
city’s utility infrastructure providing authorities and service offices.
In general the lack of integrated urban utility infrastructure policy and common
standards, lack of strong link between the land use development and utility
infrastructure provision, shortage of institutional coordination and less use of digital
mapping technologies are resulted in sub-standardization of the city utility
infrastructure. Thus the issue is branded as economical, social and environmental
effects. All these resulted in Ethiopian urban localities to have as much comparable
utility infrastructure provision problem as Bahir Dar city
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Provision in ethiopia