LEI leads the urban cadastre review in Ethiopia

Ethiopia is one of the most rapidly urbanising countries in the world and is in a unique position to capitalise on the economic opportunities of this transformation.

The World Bank, having recently undertaken the Ethiopia Urbanisation Review (see http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/543201468000586809/Ethiopia-Urbanization-review-urban-institutions-for-a-middle-income-Ethiopia), is supporting the government to undertake necessary steps to review and scale up the existing urban cadastre pilots, underpinning Ethiopia’s Second Growth and Transformation Plan. LEI is leading this urban cadastre review.

This eight-month project commenced in May 2016 and our project team travelled to Ethiopia in June to undertake the first “diagnostic” mission. The team met with key representatives from the Federal Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, and as well as Addis Ababa, travelled to the cities of Hawassa, Adama, and Mekele to meet with representatives from regional and city governments to determine how these centres were undertaking land adjudication and registration in practice.

The project team has developed an Issues and Policy Recommendations report to be discussed during the second mission (from 26 September), and will also develop a Project Design Document to assist the government in expanding the cadastral pilots.