Abstract:
Land is one of the most valuable natural resources which is indispensable for social, cultural, as
well as for the survival and prosperity of humankind, and it is the platform on which human
activities take place. The issue of land is the most sensitive of human beings everywhere in the
world and significant aspect in economic, political and social affairs. The objective of this study
was to assess Challenges Of Urban Land Administration And Its Implication On Urban
Development of Mettu Town, Southwest of Ethiopia. Descriptive survey design with Mixed research
approach was used in this study. Questionnaire, interviews and observation were used to collect
data from the different respondents of the Woreda. Three hundred sixty seven household were used
as study unit from total of 8960 households in Mettu town. Both probability and non-probability
sampling techniques were employed in the study. Sample household from each kebele were
determined proportionally based on the size of each kebeles’ household. The findings of the study
shows that around thirty percent of study participants were civil servants andtwenty three percent
were merchants. Seventy eight percent’s of were accessing the land through cooperative method
and 12.6% accessed the land through lease system and the other 4.6% ,4.0% were access through
assignment and illegally respectively. From those who had access to land 69.5% have legal
documents and the other 30.5% have not legal documents or they get the property right illegally by
corruption. About 47.7% respondents, response there is a weak land delivery system, 20.1%
medium land delivery system, the reaming 17.2%, 12.1% and 2.9 % responses strong, very weak
and very strong respectively. The survey indicated that frequency of land provisions to meet land
demand in the town were bad that accounts 50% of the respondents say no provision of land for
long time by the municipal and it lead the residents for illegal invasion of land in suburb areas of
the town and it also problems for administration activities of the town, 31%,9.8%,5.7% and 3.4%
respond that the frequency is very bad, good, neutral, and very good respectively . Land is a basic
and a scarce natural resource; lack of effective land use planning and implementation, inadequate
financial resources and human resources as well as material resources are the major constraints
for an efficient and proper utilization of this resource.
