The Psycho-Social Effects of Displacement and Resettlement on Resettlers: The Case of Ayat Condominium Kutir Hulet Site
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2018-05
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The major objective of the study is to explore the effects of relocation on the psycho-social wellbeing of relocatees who were relocated from three areas of Arada sub city and resettled to Ayat condominium Kutir hulet site as a result of the Addis Ababa city infrastructural development program and slum clearance and upgrading. However, the study also explores the current area access for dwellers in terms of sources for their livelihood, residence area, centre of social solidarity and as hub of all basic social services and infrastructures compared to the current one. The findings of the study indicated that after the relocation the resettlers have faced many problems. The relocation process has significantly affected school children and most of students who were students in the former place dropout from the school. The resettlers have suffered a lot in diverse ways like from the absence of school and breakup of mutual economic assistance. The study also indicated that former community network breakup plays its’ major role for the relocatees’ psychosocial well-being deterioration and in addition to the absence of involvement of different stakeholders’ in rebuilding the livelihood of relocated people. The study suggested that a system of psychosocial, mutual economic assistance and traditional community network assessment, which considers the psychosocial wellbeing of relocated people in the new site, participation of other stakeholders in relocation program with the government, developing holistic national relocation policy that could benefit the overall society equally, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to follow up the relocatees in the new site that could minimize psychological, social, livelihood damages ,hardship of life, and many other humanitarian crisis which relocatees face in the new site
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psychosocial wellbeing Social services community mutual assistance