The achievements observed in terms of spatial order and fairly regular plots in urban settlements in Tanzania which have been former Ujamaa villages can be traced to the initiatives taken to train ‘barefooted surveyors cum planners’ and equipping key actors with basic skills related to parcelling and orderly siting plots and buildings (Kombe & Kreibich, 1999). In order to make local leaders and committee members responsive to and capable of handling increased roles in the management of land it is necessary to improve their technical capacity or competency. This includes enhancing their awareness on matters pertaining to land servicing, imparting para-legal skills, parcelling and land-measuring standards, and land transaction and development control procedures.