Villagization In Contemporary Ethiopia The Experience Of Gambella Region Anywaa Zone From Human Rights Perspective

In Ethiopia history dates back to the imperial regime relocating people fromrndrought prone and over-crowded areas to less populous and moisture sufficientrnareas has been adopted as one of the policy ideals that have introduced tornalleviate various socio-economic problems. However, such schemes of people’srnrelocation undertaken in Ethiopia had been bitterly criticized within therninternational community given that the scheme had been driven by merelyrnpolitical imperatives and characterized by coercive, unplanned and disregardsrnhumanitarian considerations.rnIt is against this background that in 2003 E.C the GoE embarked up on thernvillagization program in emerging regions of the country, Gambella as a case inrnpoint and “socio-economic and cultural transformation” of communities who arernsettled in a dispersed way, with its declared purpose. Taking this as arnbackground, this study was concerned on examining the villagization experiencernfrom a human rights perspective in two case study villages in Anywaa zone ofrnGambella region. To achieve this objective, the study employed qualitativernapproach. And, data for the study were collected from target communities, keyrninformants, field observation, and from secondary source as international andrnregional human rights instruments, national legislations, reports, and documentsrnof different institutions.rnAfter conducting serious analysis as per the interview responses of the targetrncommunities in the study villages and key informants represented from federal tornKebele level, and field study, the researcher, presents empirical evidences andrneventually addressed the following concerns to the study villages: proceduralrnissue of consultation and the villagization program, distributive issue ofrncompensation and the villagization program, cultural practices at the newrnsettlement areas, access to basic social services in new villagization site, and thernvillagization program implications for the right to development of villagers.

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