IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mth/jas888/v7y2019i3p103-121.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Raising the Key Issues Facing the Resettlement Practice in Development Induced Displacement: Evidences From Households Displaced by Railway Construction in Dukem, Ethiopia

Author

Listed:
  • Bikila Ayele Suyum

Abstract

Development projects are inevitably resulted in massive displacement and resettlement of people. Despite gradual improvement in resettlement practices and results, the impoverishment caused by development projects related resettlements is still widely observed. This study is intended to investigate the key issues facing resettlement practice based on experiences from households displaced by railway corridor construction in Dukem area, central Ethiopia. Data were collected by using semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and archival file review. The study has revealed that a number of policy and practical factors were constraining effective resettlement and rehabilitation of the displaced households. The study indicates that the existing Ethiopian policy and legal frameworks on resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced people in the context of the development projects were not effectively implemented in the study population context. The practice of valuation, compensation and expropriation were not fair and satisfactory mainly due to lack objective criteria of evaluation, lack of technically competent valuation experts and corruption in valuation and compensation of properties. The existing policy and legal frameworks on resettlement and rehabilitation of evicted people also lacks a clear statement on the livelihood rehabilitation of displaced households. The current compensation practice is monetary-based, inadequate, delayed; the rehabilitation approach lacks special consideration for vulnerable groups. Therefore, the researcher recommends the need for devising policy, legal and institutional frameworks which have clear provisions on how to deal with the multifaceted problems of displacement, resettlement and rehabilitation. Additionally, ensuring effective reform to the structures of implementing agents of resettlement is very important.

Suggested Citation

  • Bikila Ayele Suyum, 2019. "Raising the Key Issues Facing the Resettlement Practice in Development Induced Displacement: Evidences From Households Displaced by Railway Construction in Dukem, Ethiopia," Journal of Agricultural Studies, Macrothink Institute, vol. 7(3), pages 103-121, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:mth:jas888:v:7:y:2019:i:3:p:103-121
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/view/15268/11985
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/view/15268
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    development-induced displacement; livelihood; rehabilitation; Dukem; Ethiopia;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mth:jas888:v:7:y:2019:i:3:p:103-121. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Technical Support Office (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/jas .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.