An Assessment of Land Valuation and Compensation: in Amhara Regional State Dejen Town
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2020-08
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This study aimed at the assessment of the amount of compensation for pre urban land taken for
residential housing development; the case of Dejen Town. In the study, the research method used
to carry out this study was both descriptive and explanatory methods. Descriptive method is used
to describe the amount of compensation, expropriation ,and valuation took place, how the
compensation is calculated, by whom are valuation performed, which components of
compensation was considered, what losses and damages do the affected people lost, whereas the
explanatory method was used to gather qualitative information and to interpret it. In addition to
this sampling techniques applied was both probabilistic and non-probability techniques to
identify the samples required for it. The sample size for the study was 98 households, and 9 were
from different organizations. In order to collect relevant information for the study both primary
and secondary data were collected from systematic randomly sampling selected from Dejen town
households, purposefully selected and key informants from government officials, and experts
from a study population on purposive bases. The collected data were edited, refined and entered
into the computer and finally analyzed using Microsoft excel and SPSS computer software’s.
Based on the findings, all of land in Dejen town has low implementation of amount of valuation
techniques, expropriation and compensation procedures. The implementation of the rules and
regulation on the ground very weak in terms of the valuation techniques, expropriation and
compensation procedures for the adequate and fair amount compensation, participation by the
affected people during the valuation processes, time manner of appropriate land and property
values in the area, amount of valuation methods procedures, and basis of amount valuation and
compensation. Accordingly; the study recommended that the government should have be follow
up the valuation techniques, expropriation and compensation procedures, also revised the rules
and regulations the various levels of government structures so that expropriation and
compensation procedure can be implemented as per the provision of the constitution and the
relevant laws.
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Expropriation, valuation, market value, pre- urban land, compensation