Social and Psychological Impacts Villagization: the Case of Gambella Peoples National Regional State, Ethiopia
Villagization is “the grouping of the population into centralized planned settlements. The official aim of villagization in Ethiopia was to introduce social and economic change through a socialist agrarian transformation which also included mechanization and corporatization. And the strategy is primarily aimed at gathering pastoral and semi-pastoral communities in Afar, Somali, Gambella, and Benishangul-gumuz regions voluntarily. The plan was to villagize about 1.5million people by 2013, and relocations started in 2010. This study implemented both a quantitative and qualitative approach, and sequential explanatory research design is used. By using a simple random sampling method about 360 participants were engaged in the study. The study obtained information through questionnaires (Wisconsin Quality of Life: Client Questionnaire) semi-structured interview and observational checklist is employed. Data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Quantitative data obtained through questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS version 20 software. To minimize decision error the study used 0.05 alpha levels.
