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In this sector, the Somalia Urban Development Programme aims to improve urban land management through strategies and mechanisms that promote socially equitable access to land, stabilisation of tenure for the poor, resettlement of IDPs, efficient frameworks for productive investment and basic service delivery. |
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Location: Somaliland, Puntland, South-Central Somalia |
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Background: 
As part of the integrated approach, the municipal finance component is strongly linked to land management activities, which aim to allow for better urban management and increased municipal revenue. A Geographic Information System-based property database was created from a property survey carried out in Hargeisa in 2004 and 2005. A computerized property taxation system was in turn developed from this database. Municipal property tax invoices are now prepared from this system. In the first two years, a clear rise in municipal property tax revenue was observed in Hargeisa (see the boxes in this section), and service delivery soon improved through capital projects (e.g. the paving of a five-kilometre road). In 2007, similar property surveys were carried out in Boroma and Berbera. A review of the property taxation systems in these two towns followed.
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