Villagization in Contemporary Ethiopia: The Experience of Gambella Region, Anywaa Zone, from Human Rights Perspective

Endalfer, Zinabu (2014) Villagization in Contemporary Ethiopia: The Experience of Gambella Region, Anywaa Zone, from Human Rights Perspective. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

In Ethiopia history dates back to the imperial regime relocating people from drought prone and over-crowded areas to less populous and moisture sufficient areas has been adopted as one of the policy ideals that have introduced to alleviate various socio-economic problems. However, such schemes of people’s relocation undertaken in Ethiopia had been bitterly criticized within the international community given that the scheme had been driven by merely political imperatives and characterized by coercive, unplanned and disregards humanitarian considerations. It is against this background that in 2003 E.C the GoE embarked up on the villagization program in emerging regions of the country, Gambella as a case in point and “socio-economic and cultural transformation” of communities who are settled in a dispersed way, with its declared purpose. Taking this as a background, this study was concerned on examining the villagization experience from a human rights perspective in two case study villages in Anywaa zone of Gambella region. To achieve this objective, the study employed qualitative approach. And, data for the study were collected from target communities, key informants, field observation, and from secondary source as international and regional human rights instruments, national legislations, reports, and documents of different institutions. After conducting serious analysis as per the interview responses of the target communities in the study villages and key informants represented from federal to Kebele level, and field study, the researcher, presents empirical evidences and eventually addressed the following concerns to the study villages: procedural issue of consultation and the villagization program, distributive issue of compensation and the villagization program, cultural practices at the new settlement areas, access to basic social services in new villagization site, and the villagization program implications for the right to development of villagers.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) K Law > K Law (General)
Divisions:	Africana
Depositing User:	Kabiru Wallace Ndung'u
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2019 09:22
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2019 09:22
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/9380

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