Land management policy and its implementation in Addis Ababa city government:-the case of Arada and Yeka sub cities
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2017-05
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Land markets contribute directly to economic growth through capital
formation. In this regard, land developers have a crucial role to play, in that
they develop sites generating higher values, making it possible for urban land
markets to contribute significantly to capital formation direction. The most
important function of land markets in economic growth is moving land from the
inefficient user to the more efficient one. The past two decades of public
ownership of land and centralization of some of the land related activities have
proved the public sector’s inefficiency, sluggishness and bureaucratic land
allocation that didn’t cope with the fast growing demand of the population, only
contributing to land price escalation and corruption in the city and in the
studied area.
This study establishes that, the practices of access to information about land
lease and land allocation was not equally accessible to all. Limited
publications or announcement, long and many steps in land allocation
processes were time consuming and non uniformity in managing land
evidenced this. However, land allocations was mentioned by the majority of an
individual or by the city residents as non transparent, improper investor
selection were nonexistent; in turn most allocated plots in serviced land are
not developed, rather fenced for a long period even after the expiration of grace
period.
Many measures have been taken to tackle urban problems in our city. One of
which is regarding the land policy that is very delicate, the most important and
political sensitive area, which the national government has directly involved in
it. Addis Ababa is presently a head of many others Ethiopian cities to adopt
land lease regulation as well as land and housing management practices.
The City Government Addis Ababa intends to promote the formal sector
medium and large scale businesses by instituting among other, an efficient and
sustainable land management system that would ease the access to land. Not
with standing system that would ease the access to land. Notwithstanding the
efforts being made by the municipality to improve service delivery, there
appears to be a need to introduce more transparent and accountable working
procedures that pertain to land management related services. The sluggishness
and wide spread incidence of corrupt practices in urban land management has
to be seen in lights of the rule of laws. Lack of qualified man power and the
motivation and ethical profile of the organizational staffs were bad, for some
officials it was extremely lower; which lead to poor performance.
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Submitted To The School Of Graduate Studies College Of Business
And Economic Department of Public Administration And
Development Management In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Master’s of Art Degree In Public Policy And Development
Management.
Keywords
Land, Land management