Piloting urban land systematic adjudication and registration in Ethiopia
Solomon Kebede, Alexiussantoni
LFederal Urban Land & Landed Property Registry and Information Agency, Ethiopia; IGN FI, France
The Ethiopian Urban Cadastre comprises two types of land adjudication and registration (SAR): systematic landholding adjudication and registration and sporadic. In both cases the adjudication of landholding right and the extents of the parcel boundary is the core participatory process in the introduction of urban cadastre registration. It is a process whereby existing rights in landholdings are finally and authoritatively ascertained. The SAR process does not alter existing rights in landholding. It establishes the existing landholding right. The systematic adjudication of landholdings in urban centres adheres to existing land legislation and the technologies involved follow fit-for-purpose principles that rely on the orthophoto information and locally available solutions. The whole SAR implementation consists of: public information, landholding right adjudication, city block and parcel boundary demarcation, surveying, documentation, public display, grievance management and confirmation of record culminating in the issuance of title. The current experience implementing SAR is described in the paper, results in the different cities where pilots have been made are presented, as are recommendations for the extension of the Adjudication Process to the rest of the country.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2019
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