Implementation of local Development Plans in Addis Ababa The Case of Eca Ldp
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2005-06
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Addis Ababauniversity
Abstract
Urban development especially planned urban development is a recent phenomena in
the history of urban development in the Ethiopian context in general and particularly
in Addis Ababa. Various attempts were made to guide the development of Addis
Ababa in a planned manner. Starting from the more traditional city organization of
Empress 'Taitu', implementation of portions of the other successive Master Plans
have contributed their share for the birth of the present urban form of Addis Ababa.
The preparation and implementation of Local development plans has become a very
visible phenomenon as a means to implement the Master Plans of Addis Ababa
since the 1986 MP. Since then various LDPs have been prepared and implemented.
As described in the introductory part the purpose of this thesis is to conduct a
research on the two main areas concerning the LDPs of Addis Ababa, namely, the
challenges and the impacts of implementing LDPs in Addis Ababa.
In trying to answer the posed research questions an effort was made to make the
research as comprehensive as possible. Hence, possible areas that are linked to
LDP implementation such as plan preparation trends, institutional and legal setup for
LDP preparation and implementation and the socio -economic impacts of
implementing LDPs in Addis Ababa are touched upon in a fairly detailed manner. In
the case study section, the case of kaza-INCHIS / ECA LDP is researched to show to
the reader the impact and the challenges of LDP implementation in the inner-city
areas of Addis Ababa.
In the final analysis the research has concluded that the introduction of LDPs has
brought about a positive change in creating planned urban development in spite of
the problems created in the process of implementing the LDPs in both the physical
and socio-economic arenas. Problems are seen in the area of the nature of the plans
prepared in that the plans are only two dimensionally conceived, prepared and
implemented and that the three dimensional aspect of them is left to grow by chance.
Socio-economically it was found out that implementing LDPs in the inner-city areas of
Addis Ababa such as the ECA LDP has caused the disruption of the socio-economic
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Development Plans