Contributions of Rural Resettlement Programme on the Livelihood improvement of the Resettled People: The Case of Basketo Special Woreda, SNNPR, Ethiopia
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This study was aimed at assessing the contributions of rural resettlement programme on the
livelihood improvement of the resettled people: in the case of Basketo Special Woreda, SNNPR,
Ethiopia. In order to achieve this objective, the study employed both qualitative and
quantitative research methods. The primary data was collected using survey questionnaire, key
informant interviews, FGD and direct personal observation. The secondary data sources were
used from published and unpublished materials. From the 469 resettlers currently residing in
the three resettlement sites, which are taken as a total population, 216 were selected using
simple random sampling method. Purposive sampling was employed to select 28 respondents
for key informant interview. The data was analyzed descriptively (for quantitative) and using
thematic narrations (for qualitative). On some key variables, inferential tests were conducted.
The study results show that the resettlement program was voluntary based; and has contributed
to the diversification of the livelihood strategies of the resettlers. It was also found that after the
resettlement programme, the livelihood status of settlers have shown improvement in the
dimensions of educational status and access to education (human capital), Iquib and
cooperatives (social capital), access to land (natural capital), livestock size and production
tools (physical capital) and access to credit and availability of credit sources (financial
capital). However, still the resettlers face challenges with regard to health service (human
capital), access to clean drinking water (natural capital), access to transport and market
(physical capital), variability in weather condition, diseases like malaria and recurrence of
conflicts in between the resettlers and the host community. Because of these challenges, the
resttlers are abandoning the sites. The study therefore concluded with the recommendation that
an integrated stakeholders’ intervention is needed to reverse the problems the resettlers are
facing and scale up on the contributions of resettlement program in Basketo Special Woreda.
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Resettlement program, resettlers, livelihoods, Basketo Special Woreda