Compensation of Expropriated Farmers from Construction Development Site
This study is conducted in Yeka sub-city of Addis Ababa with the major objective of assessing the valuation and compensation of expropriated farmers from construction development site in Yeka sub-city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. My thesis adds to the empirical work on urbanization projects, and compensation for evicted farmers by investigating the various approaches, and these factors that affects the change in welfare of the expropriated farmers by measuring the change in monthly net income among the two sites, before and after relocation, using primary data collected from selected 241 expropriated households who are living at Abado and Tafo sites via structured questionnaire, and analyzed with the use of both descriptive and econometric tools of analysis. The multiple linear regression model was employed with the change in the net monthly income as the dependent variable. The findings shows that valuation committee is not as such composed of community members, the compensation amount is not specific for each property rather the total sum is paid. Highest level of education completed by household head, cash and kind compensation, and engagement in social capital are significantly related with the change monthly net income of households. From policy perspective, the government should give major emphasis on the provision of basic infrastructures on the new sites where the urban development based reallocates are intended to live. In addition, since engagement in social capital has a positive and statistically significant effect up on the change in net income, thus the government should consider creating same community depending on the social ties of households, among others.