http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/2032 2001-01-13T06:34:53Z http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/16790 Assessing Rural Cadaster Implementation and Its Contribution to Land Transaction and Land Use Right Conflict Management: Evidence from West Belessa District, Amhara Region, Ethiopia Eyayaw, Atikilit Land is a fundamental resource that sustains economic, social and environmental sustainability. In Ethiopia, rural landholders have historically faced tenure insecurity due to incomplete land records and reliance on oral boundary backgrounds. To address this, the government introduced a parcel-based rural cadaster system through the Second Level Land Certification (SLLC) program. However, its implementation and effectiveness remain uncertain in many regions. The objective of this study was to assess the rural cadaster implementation and its role to land transactions and land conflict management in West Belessa District, Amhara Region. A concurrent mixed-methods design was employed, integrating quantitative data from 277 rural households and 30 land administration experts with qualitative insights from interviews and focus group discussions. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data, triangulated with qualitative findings. The study also reviewed various related literatures and reference as the secondary data. The results indicate that while the foundational components of the cadaster have been introduced, institutional challenges, including limited staffing, poor service delivery, and weak inter-agency coordination continue to delay its effectiveness. Technical deficiencies in boundary demarcation and data updating affect cadastral data accuracy. Although the legal framework exists, enforcement remains weak, and community legal awareness is limited. Community participation was also found to be minimal, largely due to misinformation and limited outreach. Nevertheless, the cadaster has contributed to improving land transaction transparency and reducing land disputes. Furthermore, findings suggest that while landholders generally perceive the system positively, awareness of its benefits and its impact on land use right practices remains moderate and uneven across the study area. In conclusion, the rural cadaster in West Belessa has placed on moderately effective system for sustained land governance. However, realizing its full potential requires institutional strengthening, technical upgrading, enhanced legal enforcement, and broader community engagement. 2025-05-01T00:00:00Z http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/16733 Water Governance and Use Rights Prioritization in Ethiopia: Risks of Grabbing in Selected Case Studies Embaye, Zbelo Haileslassie Water is perceived as an economic, social, environmental, cultural good or a political tool. Every water crisis is attached with the crises of governance. There are overlapping and competing interests, water insecurities and grabbing. The prioritization of water use rights is unresearched area in Ethiopia. This research is primarily significant to inductively explore and develop potential prioritizing principles. The research is conducted with the general objective of investigating and exploring the governance of water, prioritization of use rights and risks of grabbing on Awash River Basin and ground water governance in Mekoni case studies. Primarily, the first case study is carried out based on the qualitative research approach. The second case study is approached through a mixed research approach by adhering to the QUAL research design. The findings indicate federalism, IRBM, and functional approach to water governance are not mutually communicated, supported, balanced, reconciled and promoted. The structural arrangement is very loose, fragmented, disintegrated. There is not a comprehensive regulatory framework, lack of clarity in the Constitution, policy, subsidiary laws, and lacking an enabling institutional and organizational framework. The prioritization is not implemented based on the deconstruction of the bundled rights and it is not socially equitable, technically efficient, and environmentally sound. This is causing conflicts among different types of water users having varying attributes. The points of controversies include on jurisdiction, mandate of management or administration, questions of constitutionality, access and ownership, volume, mandate on water tariff collection, overlap of mandates etc. There is lack of facility and technology, financial and human resource constraints. There shall be a water reform on the policy, laws, ranking of water use rights, clear and consistent allocation of power and structure, enabling to avoid conflicts and alternative dispute settlement arrangements. It is a must to design sustainable, efficient, equitable and participatory water governance system. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/15788 Assessment of Urban Land Value Capture Practice in Ethiopia: The Case of Bahir Dar City Mulugeta, Habtamu n Ethiopia, including Bahir Dar city, population growth increases rapidly, while at the same time, the need for mobility and expansion of infrastructure demand increases. Bahir Dar City has a persistent financial challenge and infrastructure gaps which requires a sustainable funding source. Therefore, implementing alternative financial sources using a land value capture mechanism in land value increment resulting from public infrastructure development is vital to solving infrastructure gaps and quality of services. Hence, this study aims to assess urban land value capture practices in Bahir Dar city as an alternative financial source for municipal revenue. This study employed both a quantitative and qualitative approach. Both primary and secondary sources of data were used. In total 168 households were chosen by systematic random sampling technique for the survey. Besides, 8 in-depth interviews and 1 FGD were conducted using participants selected purposefully based on experts' experience and positions. The survey data was analyzed in descriptive statistics. The findings revealed that the municipality tries to practices to capture the increased land value resulting infrastructure development through public land leases and urban land rent is insignificant due to outdated benchmark prices. As a result, on-the-ground land value capture mechanisms were not effectively implemented and practiced in the city. On the other hand, in the perception of the society the findings of the study show that the land parcel located in cloth proximity to public infrastructure development and CBD directly increase the value of land, which indicated that positive relationship between them. Hence, this positive relation suggests the necessity of implementing land value capture mechanisms in Bahir Dar city. The findings of the study indicate that 75.5% of residential landowners are unwilling to pay for the uplifted value of land resulting in public infrastructure investment. Stakeholder engagements, political will, well-organized institution, good land registration, and cadastral system are also others essential to implementing LVC mechanisms appropriately. Based on the findings this study suggested that the government should select and implement appropriate land value capture mechanisms to capture value increments that fit the local context and community acceptance 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/15207 Evaluation Made On RADAR and Optical Remote Sensing Data for Predictive Mapping of Groundwater Potential Zones: A Case Study of Gidabo Watershed, Blatie Basin, Ethiopia. Yesga, Abebe Groundwater demand is rising exponentially due to several factors contrary to this groundwater assessment and evaluation in Ethiopia is preliminarily conducted through conventional hydrogeological and geophysical resistivity surveys however; such methods are well known by high time and capital demanding. Remote sensing specifically, RADAR and optical remote sensing imageries are helpful for predicting potential groundwater zones. Therefore, an attempt was made to test the application of integrated RADAR and optical remote sensing imageries with other existing data, GIS technology, and the AHP technique for potential groundwater zones mapping in the Gidabo watershed, Ethiopia. Sentinel-1A SAR microwave and sentinel-2A optical remote sensing imageries, DEM, geological map, and soil type data were used to extract criteria thematic layers influencing groundwater occurrence. A total of nine criteria thematic layers, such as LULC, slope, elevation, soil moisture, soil texture, lineament density, geology, rainfall, and drainage density factors, were selected as major governing factors for the predictive mapping of potential groundwater zones. Since all factors have no equal influence on groundwater occurrence, weight assessment is performed using a multi-criteria decision analysis based on the AHP technique. These selected and prepared thematic layers are reclassified based on standard criteria; and aggregated using the weighted overlay technique in the spatial domain of ArcGIS environment. The aggregated result shows that; the identified groundwater potential zones of the study area are very low (0.006%), low (14.951%), moderate (60.188%), and high (24.856%). A total of 135 water point inventory data of boreholes and springs with variable yield have been used for result validation. The points are overlaid on and coincide over different groundwater potential zones, and resulted in 0.91 correlations or 91.11% accuracy. Based on the results of the study, integrated optical and RADAR remote sensing with GIS techniques are very efficient, practical, timely, and cost-effective for monitoring and assessing potential groundwater zones. Finally, the study suggested that future studies on potential groundwater zone mapping should incorporate knowledge from other scientific disciplines and employ field data for validation to enhance the accuracy of the result. 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z