Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Sociology - Habitation, Urban Sociology, grade: 4, , course: URBAN SOCIOLOGY, language: English, abstract: People are displaced by development projects, whether roads, rail transportation, water supply, dams and many other projects. While such projects can bring both benefit and costs on the community in the country. Accordingly, this paper intends to examine the urban development induced displacement and its consequences in Ethiopia. The paper used a detailed literature reviews in order to get adequate data. Besides, the paper used different theoretical models for better understanding of the issue. Throughout reading different literature, this paper realize that urban development-induced displacement has various negative consequences on displaced households. It causes health problems, loss job, food insecurity, socio-economic marginalization, weakening of social networks, and annihilation from social organizations. The empirical findings also show that displaced households use different coping strategies to overcome the problems. Moreover, this paper disclosed that, the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia recognizes that appropriate legal implementation plans for resettlement during development projects and programs. However, on the ground there is gap in rehabilitating the displaced peoples in compensation and empowerment.

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My name is Tomas Tsegaye Haki, I was born in South Aari woreda, South Omo zone (Jinka), Southern nation, nationality people regional state, Ethiopia. Phone number: - +251934120638 E-mail:- tsegaye0638@gmail.com Sociologist Lecturer: Wollo University