Context
In Ethiopia, the laws and procedures in place to regulate urban and rural land use lack clarity and intersectoral involvement. This causes discrepancies between the national and regional levels and negatively impacts social, environmental and economic affairs. Planning and decision-making processes also lack transparency and do not sufficiently address the needs of vulnerable groups such as women, ethnic minorities and young people.
The Ethiopian government’s Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) II recognises the need for a robust and integrated land-use plan and policy. It has responded by setting up the National Integrated Land Use Planning and Policy (NILUPP) Office to pursue this goal. NILUPP works under the auspices of the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Commission and its mandate is to coordinate and develop cross-sectoral land-use planning at federal, regional and district level.
The PLUP project supports the successful implementation of the NILUPP roadmap, which outlines the activities and processes required to coordinate these planning processes at different levels.
Objective
Ethiopia is testing the principles, standards and instruments of participatory land-use planning at federal, regional, and local levels.
