Urban Land Management Challenges in Ethiopia

This study assesses Legal Framework regulating Urban Land Management from Good Governance perspectives, the case of Selected Ethiopian Towns. To achieve these goals, descriptive research with Qualitative and quantitative research methods were used. Questionnaires, Interview, focus group discussion, and secondary data was employed to collect data and analyzed descriptively. The find of these studies revealed that urban land tenure rights were not legally recognized and protected in practice as there was no legal framework defining the culture of the aboriginal community in relation to urban land rights. Undefined land for public use does not encourage landowners to use their urban land efficiently since most public land can be transferred for undefined private use. Enforcing rights through the regularization of urban land was unaffordable due to problems in identifying informal or undocumented evidence in urban areas highly prone to pet corruption. The mechanisms used by institutions to stop illegal settlements with coercive measures by violently demolishing illegal buildings in towns were leading to a socio-economic crisis.