Abstract:
This study assessed the challenges and prospects of good urban governance practices in land
administration at Hosanna Town,Sech-Duna sub city ,South Nation Nationality peoples
Regional state government, Seven good governance principles, suchas: participation,
transparency, accountability, equity, effectiveness, efficiency and responsiveness. The study
design was descriptive case study. Data was collected from primary and secondary sources.
Primary data was obtained through questionnaires and interviews. Secondary data involved
reviewing relevant literature from journals, books, magazines. Data collected by survey
questionnaires was entered SPSS for statistical analysis, and data collected by focus group
discussion and interviews were analyzed using words statements, and used for the purpose of
triangulation. This study found that corruption and rent seeking behavior and activities,
negligence by officials and employees of the municipality, lagging of response, lack of
mechanism to ask municipality about its deeds and officials run for getting of response, from
their bosses to either sustain their power or to upgrade their position rather work to solve
residents‟ problem, lack of financial, material and human recourses, lack of institutional
capacity regarding major challenges. Improving the participation of local community, equity
based land service delivery, computerization of records, establishing „‟ one-stop shop‟‟ services,
separating „‟front-office-„‟ from „‟back-office‟‟, establishing service standards which include all
the elements of the service provided in the land administration and service standards ,updating
and monitoring the cadastral system consistently are stated as recommendations.
