Adugna, DagnachewZegeye, Yirsaw2018-06-262023-11-082018-06-262023-11-082012-07http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/3580Integrated 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 cityenProvision in ethiopiaThesis