This study aims to assess the Public Provision of Urban Land Information from a Governance perspective in two specific Ethiopian Towns. To achieve this goal, qualitative and quantitative research methods were used. Questionnaires, interviews, and focus group discussions were used for data collection, and the collected data were analyzed descriptively. According to the study results, the main challenge for the failure of advanced urban land management systems in the study areas was the lack of informed decisions about establishing and maintaining well-functioning cadastral systems and registered urban lands. The costs for providing the necessary cadastral services have not yet been determined in the towns due to the lack of cadastral implementation and any private burdens have not been recorded and were not known to the urban land management. The mechanism to protect against illegal behavior of employees in the field of land management and to prevent informal payments was very poor. Apart from that, there was no law on how to obtain copies of land management documents and who bears the costs, and where documents can be intentionally hidden to solicit informal payments. Urban ground service standards were not regularly monitored and service standards were not clear and customers cannot easily assert their rights. The registered property data and the actual reality on site do not match in many places in both towns. As a result, urban land information has not yet been made available in line with a good governance perspective the public participation in urban land decisions as well as the accessibility of the communitys inland information was very limited. The lack of mandatory modalities for connecting spatial data infrastructure to the national network of legal recognition of defined technical standards for different types of operations and stricter rules to enforce spatial data updating and data migration to and from different databases are issues that need to be duly considered.
Udessa et al. (Sat,) studied this question.