Resettlement and Villagization in Gabbaa Awraja; the Case of Yaayoo, Dorannii and Hurrumuu Districts, Iluu Abbaa Boor, (1950-1991)

Abstract

The objective of the study is to investigate the history of resettlement and villagization schemes in Ilu Abbaa Boor‟s Yayyoo, Dorrannii and Hurrummuu districts from 1950 - 1991). The study covers the period from 1950 to1991. The purpose of the study is to fill the gaps which not studied about the history of the resettlement and villagization programs in Ilu Abba Boor in genrerl and particularly in the study areas. The study is enriched with data gathered from primary and secondary sources. In regard to primary data, investigation was conducted on oral sources and achievable materials available in the study area. This was done with the objective to collect genuine data for the research at hand. Here, careful interviews were administered with oral informants to collect authentic oral information, which offered the researcher with the favorable condition to substantiate the study; and different unpublished and published docments have also been investigated. The study argues resettlement and villagization could bring relative change on the pre-existing indigenous social, political, economic, cultural, religious, etc., affairs of the native inhabitants. In addition, the study argues that the two programs caused ecological degradation, and became the cause for the occurrence of pervasive soil erosion and reduction of subsistence production. The study shows that the implementation of resettlement and villagization programs had been the causes for the introduction of some cultural elements co-existed with the pre-existing indigenous cultural values. It also reveals how the 1950s resettlement program was initiated to achieve the rural transformation objective, which failed to bring success because of lack of plan. It is also showing how the implementation of the two schemes was provided the state with the chance to secure food security without foreign support. Howeve, the two rural transformation programs failed because of lack of the consent of the people and unexpected political dynamic seen globally and locally. The research findings reveal how vllsgization and resettlement badly affected the low social group like artisians in their traditional economic activities and cultural settlement patterns. The research finaily shows that the two programs were failed due to the change in political transformation world wide.