Urban Renewal Strategy of the Addis Ababa City Government: Implication for Social Institutions in Arada Sub-City
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2017-07
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This study has discussed about the traditional and social institutions’ implication in urban
renewal and development projects on relocated residents. The focus of this study was to explore
the situations of social institutions such as idir iqub, mahiber, sebekagubaie, and neighborhood
self-help group of those who were relocated. Also, it focuses to explore the activities of those
relocated including how they are vulnerable to urban context, to examine whether the social
institutions are employed by them to cope-up or recover from the undesirable social problems
and to assess the outcomes of such strategies.
In doing this, those people who were relocated to Summit, Jemo1 and Jemo2 were purposefully
selected as study population. In this context, the implication for social institution of negative
effects of urban development projects on relocated people. Such relocation caused by
development project occurs because of slum demolishing, urban expansion and renewal of the
city’s facility and infrastructure.
The study was conducted in Arada Sub-city, Basha Woldechilot 1 and 2 project sites in which
different development projects and relocation programs have been implemented. The overall aim
of the study was to explore why relocation has been affecting social institutions of the relocated
people and, the limited emphasize and concern for them by the urban administration responsible
for promotion of developmental projects.
Interviews and questionnaires are used for collection of data. Out of 2659 households relocated
from Arada Sub-City Basha Woldechilot 1 and2
to Ayat/Summit and Jemo 1and2 sites 55
households were selected using purposive sampling method and tables are used to analyze
survey results.
Finally, the study suggests the importance of community participation in decision-making
process, through recognizing the establishment of the social institutions that are the backbone
for community problem solving mechanisms. Before planning projects, deep community based
research and social institutions participation should be employed during the implementation of
the scheme. To make this research viable, relevant information was collected from primary and
secondary data sources