Informal settlements in the periurban areas of bahir dar. As usual, the poor and women are the worst affected. Federal and regional urban development policies and strategies such as the urban development policy, pasdep, urban planning law, etc. Even more, the post1991 urban land tenure system has perpetuated the objective land tenure insecurity of permit holders by making the land rights unclear until the enactment of regulation. In this proclamation, unless the context requires otherwise. Challenges and way forward in the urban sector executive summary v this, both the administration and political decision making have to work across sectors. Property rights, land management and conservation in ethiopia asmara, the red sea press, inc. Hence, unlike the housing sector, urban land is governed by a special legislation, namely, the lease holding of urban lands proclamation no. Pdf on jan 1, 2018, asfaw takele and others published ethiopian urban land lease policy analysis implementation. Critical analysis of ethiopian urban land lease policy reform since early 1990s zelalem yirga adamu, usa key words. Free access to public data is an essential prerequisite for integrated planning, and not just data and access, but the possibility to look for specific information and trends.
Cities that initially benefited from such projects included bahir dar, mekelle, awassa and adama. Following this introduction we present the adopted analytical. Today, in ethiopia, lease is the cardinal and exclusive landholding system to transfer urban land to users in accordance with the master plans of each urban area. The study also aims to establish facts whether the realization of the law had achieved the intended purposes. However, there is no common system to administer land in urban areas world bank 2012a.
Case study of bahir dar, ethiopia by haimanot woldgbrial teferi thesis submitted to the faculty of geoinformation science and earth observation of the university. Land lease policy in addis ababa ethiopian, chamber. Article 6 1 b 1 provides that addis ababas urban land. Thus, herein udder are the essence of the current land governance with respect to lease policy and urban land governance thereby the legal base for valuation work in ethiopia. Overview of the core changes in the new ethiopian urban. Regarding the introduction of the land information ethiopia is a late comer.
The challenges of periurban land rights in ethiopia. While households use rights now include the rights to lease land to a third. Hawassa, a city on the shores of lake hawassa in the great rift valley in ethiopia, dates back to a 1960 imperial declaration of the site as a resort settlement. To achieve these goals, the government of ethiopia has accepted urban land lease policy as the alternative land tenure system so as to provide a room for. Towards an efficient implementation of the land lease. The national land policy was a product of love and labour done free of charge involving several. Achieving efficient land use, encouraging investors and investment and realizing the cost of urban land and make an efficient use of it are some of the major national and regional goals in ethiopia. Land lease policy in addis ababa l and lease policy in addis ababa 7 the urban land management system and identifying issues and problems underlying the gap between supply and demand. Today, in ethiopia, lease is the cardinal and exclusive land holding system to transfer urban land to users in accordance with the master plans of each urban area.
This research advocated that leaseholding should be a system or a form of tenureship, which the local government might select or not when they find it necessary for financing the developments. The flattening of homes in legetafo legedadi has caused havoc for thousands. In view of that, the impact of the latest functional urban land lease law on business sector development and. A study on the impact of the current land lease law on. Critical analysis of ethiopian urban land lease policy reform. Land lease policy in addis ababa ethiopian chamber of.
New urban land lease law worrying many ethiopians december 24, 2011 in one of major changes to urban land onwership since derg confisicated public properties decades ago, the ethiopian government announced that urban property holders pay lease to the government regardless of whether these properties were bought or inherited before. Pdf is the current land policy of ethiopia the most. It was after the 1994 urban land reform proclamation that the issue of establishing a modern land information system has been raised and discussed at the top management level. The urban land lease policy is one of the major policy interventions made by the government to allocate urban land for residential and nonresidential developments.
The urban land lease policy is also intended to create a steady source of revenue for municipalities that can be used for the improvement of urban facilities fdre, 2011. The state and regional constitutions as well as urban land proclamations, regulations and rules enacted so far to implement the constitution. Although the 15 villages included in the sample are not statistically representative 1of rural ethiopia as a whole, they are. Literature on urban land governance suggests cadastres play an important role in delivering equal land access, adequate tenure security, sustainable land use, accountability of actors, and transparency.
Urban land policy and the practice of land delivery system in ethiopia land delivery systems in ethiopia has undergone different land tenure systems. Urban, land, lease, market value, modality of transfer, revenue, speculation, contract termination, mortgage, compensation abstract in the early 1990s, the ethiopian government launched urban land reforms. It is designed specifi cally to provide practitioners, scholars, and students with the most. At times, one observes the terms being used interchangeably leading to the notion of why one needs land use policy when the country already 2 this study refers to the five papers presented and discussed at a national workshop on land use policy in ethiopia at adama town on october 2021. This proclamation may be cited as the urban lands lease holding proclamation no. On 19 february, bulldozers descended on legetafo legedadi, on the outskirts of ethiopias capital addis ababa, and began demolishing over 3,000 homes. An assessment of urban land lease policy implementation in ethiopia. For this paper we use the data from the 1997, 2004 and 2009 rounds. Land tenure and land policy in ethiopia after the derg. Current efforts towards the issuance of title deeds are expected to address this gap. This is to be expected, according to many experts, due to the rapid growth of the citys population and the resulting supplydemand imbalances. As part of policy intervention in addressing the challenges of urban development in the country, activities such as investment promotion, improvement of governmental services in land and infrastructure, job creation, and housing provisions have been carried out.
This progress in the rural land administration is not matched by the urban land holding system. With little warning, thousands of people were made homeless and businesses were left in ruins. Finally, issues of policy and collective action are treated in a concluding section, in the context of sustainability. Is the current land policy of ethiopia the most feasible one with respect to the economic goals of the country. This proclamation may be cited as the federal democratic republic of ethiopia rural land administration and land use proclamation no. Urban land lease is the national policy, so that the entire urban centres of the country have been obliged to implement the policy. An assessment of ethiopian land policy from various perspectives. The urban land and extra housing reform of 1975 was a measure that fundamentally changed both the ownership of urban land and housing and the way these. Researcher, federal democratic republic of ethiopia policy study. Assessment of urban land delivery system for housing development policy framework since 1991, the federal democratic republic government of ethiopia enacted the state ownership of land in the constitution. Urban lands lease holding proclamation, proclamation no. Ethiopian urban land lease policy analysis implementation. Ethiopia that land is the property of the state and the peoples of ethiopia and that its use shall be subject to specific regulation by law.
An assessment of urban land lease policy implementation in. This set the basis for the identification of specific policies and measures fostering business expansion in the context of accelerating urban development. This work discusses the ethiopian urban land lease policy and its characteristics, challenges of its implementation and the remedies to be under taken. Pdf ethiopian urban land lease policy analysis implementation. Land lease prices in ethiopias capital city, addis abeba, continue to get higher and higher over time. It further examines alternative policy, legislative, institutional and implementation mechanisms, and makes recommendations deduced from a thorough analysis of. Paper presented at the workshop of the land tenure project of the institute of development research, addis ababa. Urban and rural land is available for investment on leasehold and rental basis, respectively. Implications of land policies for the ruralurban linkages. Pdf urban land lease policy of ethiopia case study on addis. Definitions in this proclamation unless the context otherwise requires. Ministry of works and urban development, ethiopia facts about ethiopia location east africa. Urban land lease policy of ethiopia case study on addis.
Accordingly, land governance is increasingly examined through the domain of cadastres, or more broadly land administration. Current land policy issues in ethiopia request pdf. The urban land lease policy is one of the major policy interventions made by the government to allocate urban land for residential housing. Usaid 2004, ethiopia land policy and administration assessment.
Section 4 presents an analytic description of the macro development policy scene in ethiopia, and critiques its role in fostering rural transformation. Towards an efficient implementation of the land lease policy of ethiopia. Case study of bahir dar, ethiopia haimanot woldgbrial teferi march, 2009 an. Mwud ministry of works and urban development ngo nongovernmental organization op operational policy pap project affected people rap resettlement action plan rpf resettlement policy framework teplaua tigray environmental protection and land administration and use agency tnrs tigray national regional state. This masters program gave me the opportunity to look at different urban development concerns, which could be applicable in ethiopia as a whole. The outcome of this paper therefore has important implications for legislators on how urban land lease policy reform is. To achieve these goals, the government of ethiopia has accepted urban land lease policy as the alternative land tenure system so as to provide a room for individuals and investors to land to use land use rights through transferring from the state to land users. Urban land is provided through a lease system,3 a perpetual permit system4 and separate legislation for. Until 1994, the issue of cadastral system has never been seriously considered. Iii the impact of urbanization on rural land use christopher bryant encyclopedia of life support systems eolss community are treated. Land lease policy in addis ababa walled settlements that allow dwellers to reap economies of agglomeration created the need to define property rights over tracts of land and the structures on them. Land tenure defines the mode by which land is held or owned, or the set of relationships. Critical analysis of ethiopian urban land lease policy.
Land policy there is a great need to help the ethiopian leadership think about how it can modify land policy and administration in ways that will encourage efficient farmers to produce more and improve their land management without reducing their livelihood security. This has largely been a reflection of the prevailing land policy and land holding tenure systems of the country under different governance regimes. This enables us to get a sample of about 0 households in 15 villages across ethiopia. The embodiment of the land governance in general and urban land governance in particular has been provided under the fdre. The limited space within a walled city created scarcity of land. Pdf an assessment of urban land lease policy implementation in. Urban land urban land administration is delegated under the federal constitution to city governments and municipalities world bank 2012a.
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