Governance challenges in hossana land administration and management bureau (hossana town sach-duna sub-city in snnprs)

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.