Background: Much work has been done during the previous ten years to establish the policy and legal framework[1] and establish a national spatial planning framework[2]. A new master plan for Addis Ababa is being prepared. Many small, medium and large cities have city-wide spatial plans in place. Much work remains to be done to put in place a Federal Urban Planning Institute, at city level urban land development and urban township development agencies and the cadaster development and land titling agencies. While preparatory work has been done in GTP I, much implementation will take place in GTP2 and be scaled up in GTP2I.
Objective: That all of Ethiopia’s urban centers have physical development plans that ensure they provide a satisfactory living and working environment, the quantity and quality of land with infrastructure and services for all uses that meet demand and the spatial planning and land titling and delivery policies, laws and regulations support thriving, dynamic development in the public interest and achieve GOE benchmarked targets.
Goals:
- To build the capacity of planning institutions and organizations, including capability of staff, so as to ensure that all urban centers have up-to-date and effective spatial plans in place, as required by Urban Planning Proclamations and regulation;
- To ensure that all governmental levels – federal, regional and local urban government – have effective and up to date urban spatial plans, as are designated by proclamation and regulation (cluster, city, neighborhood and urban design);
- To establish a modern and effective system of urban land development and administration by establishing workable systems to realize development, growth and good governance of cities;
- To establish a sample based national and regional slum coverage study and to prepare the legal frameworks and strategies necessary to reduce slum coverage to 30%, ether by renewal or upgrading interventions;
- To ensure the sustainability of land supply in urban expansion areas;
- To improve the livelihood of the farmers who will be expropriated as a result of the urban expansion; and
- To develop an integrated land administration system including: production of digitized base maps, land adjudication, regularization and consolidation, establishment of urban real property registration, creation and maintenance of an integrated urban land information system, creation of a standard city address system, demarcation of cities’ administrative boundaries; under the administrative jurisdiction of cities and oversight of Regional authorities and the Federal Real Property Registration and Information Agency
Linkages: Pillar 4 is linked to Pillars 1, 3 and 10 which provide the institutional and organizational capacity and resources (human and financial) to plan cities, deliver serviced land and support the real property market transactions that involve public and private investments in urban development. Pillar 5. Housing development requires planning and serviced land.
[1] Urban Planning Proclamation 574/2008.
[2] National Urban Development Spatial Plan, 2015.