Ethiopia Land Management and Urban Upgrading Project

dropped

Failure

The project is expected to include four key components, with the key technical components integrated across two key pillars of land management and urban upgrading:Component 1 - Strengthen policy, institutions, systems, and capacity for land management and slum upgrading. The objective of this component would be to provide the foundation for improved land management and slum upgrading through investments in IT and targeted spatial data, policy and institutional reform, and capacity building. 1.1. National infrastructure investment, reforms, and capacity building: This sub-component would finance targeted IT and geodetic infrastructure investments (upgrade and integrate IT systems, and improve geodetic networks), technical assistance for national policy and institutional reform and development, and capacity building for improved and integrated land management and slum upgrading. For the mainstreaming of slum upgrading approach, it would also support the institutional strengthening, policy and strategy development for slum upgrading and prevention, and capacity building of federal government agencies. Interagency coordination would be also supported under this sub-component including an institutional analysis to identify the nature of support needed to facilitate interagency coordination vertically and horizontally.1.2. Local infrastructure investment, reforms, and capacity building: This subcomponent would finance targeted spatial data infrastructure investments (upgrade and integrate existing Land Information Systems (LIS) and establish new geodetic control points and procure ortho-imagery and update base maps) and capacity building to improve land management ICT and geodetic infrastructure and build capacity at the local (regional/city) level. It would also finance goods and technical assistance to support selected local governments for the slum upgrading sub-projects throughout the project cycle, from the planning, design, and community engagement, to operations and maintenance. Technical assistance on municipal financing, territorial development strategy for slum prevention would be supported. Component 2 - Improve resilient infrastructure, services and tenure security for poor communities. The objective of this component would be to support access to infrastructure and services in selected slum settlements and improved tenure security, and all three sub-components would be packaged to support the same cities and slum settlements. 2.1. Improve physical and social infrastructure: This sub-component would finance construction and rehabilitation of, inter alia, trunk and tertiary infrastructure and social infrastructure, e.g., roads, footpaths, streetlights, drainages, public/green spaces, daycare, health clinics, community facilities.2.2. Enhance tenure security of urban residents: This sub-component would finance IT infrastructure (digitize and organizing existing land records), hardware and software investments to implement systematic land parcel mapping, rights recognition, and registration, and technical assistance to design and implement innovative pilots to ensure all legitimate land use rights are recognized and recorded.2.3. Socio-economic inclusion: This sub-component would support socio-economic needs assessments for selected slums and provision of needed support, tailored to the communities, e.g., for crime and violence prevention, gender equality, linking youth to job opportunities, etc.Component 3 – Project management. This component will support the operation of the project implementation units (PIUs), coordination among stakeholders, fiduciary and safeguards management, monitoring and evaluation, training, and studies for the preparation of subsequent phases.Component 4 – Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC). This component will allow for rapid reallocation of funding between project components in case of an emergency (such as natural and man-made disasters, conflicts, epidemics, and economic shocks).Land management approach. Based on the locally agreed practices and the World Bank’s global experience with land tenure and land administration projects, the following approaches will be applied to the project design for land activities:a. Urban land-focused with harmonized urban-rural approach: The project will primarily focus on urban and peri-urban areas for land tenure strengthening (Sub-Component 2.1) while using an integrated approach with rural lands for legal and institutional strengthening and capacity building activities (Sub-Components 1.1 and 1.2).b. Fit-for-purpose approach to land administration: Activities will be designed for the purpose of managing current land issues in an affordable, flexible and reliable way using a participatory and inclusive approach (e.g., use of the general boundary concept, high-resolution imageries, para-surveyors).c. Systematic coverage of all urban parcels: The project would include both public and private land use rights using a systematic approach to reduce time and costs.d. Locally appropriate and innovative approaches: The project aims to enhance tenure security along a continuum of rights by piloting improvements to the existing rights creation and registration procedures.e. Consistent and scalable approach: The technical approaches should build on existing pilots/experiences and be compatible with the existing technology infrastructure to maximize synergies and scaling up.f. Financially/technically sustainable development approach: All systems/processes to be implemented should be designed with long-term sustainability in mind, including the financial and human resources needed to maintain the intervention/infrastructure.Slum upgrading approach. Considering the local context and the World Bank’s global experience with slum upgrading projects, key principles of slum upgrading are agreed: (i) A nationwide program approach, tailored to the local context, (ii)Scaling up using a phased approach, starting with pilots, (iii) A participatory approach, (iv) Climate, disaster-resilient investment, and (v) Minimizing resettlements. Proposed Geographic Scope/Selection Criteria. For the Component 2 and 3 engagements, a preliminary list of selection criteria was discussed with the GoE and will be further prioritized based on the available data during the Project preparation. The preliminary list is the following: a. Selection criteria for Cities: regional equity, city size, city population, slum population, slum location (within the city administrative boundary), size of slums and density, poverty level, level of access to basic services, environmental hazards (hazard map in place), proximity to spatial data infrastructure, readiness for land registration, commitment of local government and community (need to be elaborated further by government team), potential economic impacts, and demonstration effects. b. Selection criteria for slum settlements: settlement density, size of slums (area and number of parcels), poverty level, hazards, tenure status, demand and readiness for land registration, proximity to trunk infrastructure, leadership and community commitments.

FY17 - Public Administration

World Bank Group

Project

Road, Commercial, Government