The Effect of Urban Development Project on the Displaced Resident: The Case of Garment Jemo Upgrading Project
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2021-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to analyzing effect of urban development project on the displaced
residents: the case of the Garment-Jemo upgrading project. the study conducts quantitative and
qualitative methods of research and the research stands descriptive in type. Because the study
has tried to describe the essential contributing issues of internal displaced and its socioeconomic, and mental effects on the displaces. data gathering methods like questionnaires,
interviews, discussions and observations. The research questions of the study are “What is the
effects of Garment Jemo upgrading on the displaced communities? How the displaced cope with
the consequences of the Garment-Jemo upgrading project? “And To what extent do the
displaced residents participate in the displacement programs focusing on consequences of the
displacement? The most common and widely used conceptual framework of Impoverishment
Risks and Reconstruction (IRR) and A quantitative research design was applied to research the
casual relationship of the development project dimensions to that of displaces systematic
random sampling technique was conducted to select the respondents. Appling a structured
questionnaire written in Amharic the researcher together with land management officers the
analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics by using SPSS version 20
software The findings of the study show that the former area (inner city) has multidimensional
importance for dwellers in terms of source of their livelihood, residence area, center of social
solidarity and as hub of all basic services and infrastructures. In contrary, the new area
accessing all these benefits is too difficult and the role of government in solving these problems
was insignificant Besides, the rehabilitation program gave minimal attention to the social reestablishments in the new location. After this study the researcher persisted that, the
consequence of relocations on relocates livelihood in terms of economy, social and basic
facilities and infrastructure. To improve these problems, researchers recommended that the city
management of Addis Ababa crucially undertake a massive dislocation police design to afford
decent houses for its communities and to modify the identity of the city over internal city slum
rehabilitation.
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