Documents

This paper considers the key factors driving a persistent aspiration among Ethiopians from Hosaena and Durame towns, in southern Ethiopia, to migrate to South Africa (mainly to Johannesburg), despite intensifying restrictions and hostility. It focuses on the motivations of people who have migrated...

Over the last two years, human traffickers and smugglers in East and North Africa have shifted their business models in response to efforts to contain migration flows to Europe, resulting in notable shifts in migration patterns. At the same time, the European Union (EU) has deepened its...

Kenya formally adopted the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) in October 2017. Since then the country has made progress towards its implementation by undertaking self-reliance and inclusion measures for refugees. Under the leadership of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...

This report analyses the ways in which the Nairobi Process and CRRF are being implemented in four countries: Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda.Based on 130 interviews and focus group discussions with international and national aid actors, government officials, local administrators, and refugees...

The purpose of this briefing paper is to bring together emerging information and analyses on COVID‐ 19 in the HoA, with a particular focus on how these relate to mobility, conflict and development. This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union.

This policy brief highlights some of the key policy implications from the findings of a recent study on movement between the Horn of Africa and Yemen undertaken by the Research and Evidence Facility of the EU Trust Fund for Africa. This study set out to explore how and why people continue to move in...

This study documents, conducted by the Research and Evidence Facility, for the first time the experiences of young Darfuris, mainly men, fleeing Sudan for Europe. It focuses on Darfur because of its history of migration, conflict and displacement. The aim was to explore trends, drivers and...

Update produced by the Research and Evidence Facility (REF) for the Horn of Africa. 

The last twelve months have been extremely busy for the Research and Evidence Facility (REF), with research on return to and displacement from Somalia, rural to urban migration in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, and...