Assessment of community involvement and compensation money utilization in Ethiopia: case studies from Bahir Dar and Debre Markos peri-urban area ppt
Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu, Reinfried Mansberger
Institute of Land Administration, Debre Markos University, Ethiopia Institute of Surveying, Remote Sensing and Land Information, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
In this study mainly the involvement of the community during expropriation, and the compensation money utilization of the expropriated farmers in Ethiopia are assessed taking Bahir Dar and Debre Markos peri-urban areas as case studies. The data were collected by using survey research methods and mainly the data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics. According to the study results, there is high land tenure transformation in the study peri-urban areas during the study periods. Even though the majority of the expropriated farmers got compensation payments, most farmers did not use their compensation money to alternative income generating businesses. Just payment of compensation shall not be an end by itself but the necessary technical and administrative support is detrimental for the proper utilization of the compensation money. Besides, Communities affected with expropriation should effectively participate in the processes of expropriation and compensation in order to reduce the externalities of the process.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2019
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