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

Bikila Ayele Suyum

Journal of Agricultural Studies, 2019, vol. 7, issue 3, 103-121

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.

Keywords: development-induced displacement; livelihood; rehabilitation; Dukem; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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