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RSSReport prepared by the Research and Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa.
Author: Dereje Feyissa with contributions from Milkessa Midega and Ketema Wakjira.
As a secondary city, the competitive advantage of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia is location. It is the closest large city to the port of Djibouti...
Report prepared by the Research and Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa.
Author: Ngala Chome
This paper examines the impacts of the development of formal border crossings on the economy of borderlands, especially in remote, rural areas of Africa, where local people’s livelihoods often depend...
Report prepared by the Research & Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa.
Authors: Ronald Kalyango with contributions from Isabella Amony and Kindi Fred Immanuel
Gulu Municipality is among the fastest growing urban centres in Uganda. In 1991, it was the fourth largest with a population of 38,297...
Working paper prepared by Oliver Bakewell, Research & Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa.
The COVID-19 pandemic overlays a new form of disaster on the already complex array of chronic and periodic crises that beset the people of the Horn of Africa. It has had an immediate effect on human...
Report prepared by the Research and Evidence Facility.
Authors: Bathsheba Asati, Aparupa Chakravarti, Liviya David and Michael Owiso
entrepreneurship for refugees in Kenya, and the actual and potential role of the private sector in creating economic opportunities in Kenya’s refugee-hosting areas...
Report prepared by the Research & Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa.
Authors: Miriam Badoux with contributions from Gianluca Iazzolino, Kennedy Mwangi and Elvis Abuga
This study looks at rural–urban mobility in Eldoret, a fast-growing secondary city of about 300,000 people located in Kenya’s...
Research report prepared by the Research and Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa.
Authors: Bereket Tsegay
In Ethiopia, internal migration of youth from rural to urban centres is a significant and growing phenomenon. Rapid urbanisation, greater investment in cities and the lack of opportunities...
Working paper prepared by the Research and Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa.
Authors: Getahun Fenta Kebede, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Ethiopia is rapidly urbanising and migration from rural to urban areas plays a major role in this urbanisation. Rural youth choose to migrate to urban...
Report prepared by the Research and Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa.
Authors: Abebaw Minaye Gezie, Padmini Iyer
In the Horn of Africa (HoA), investments in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and other employability programmes are typically predicated on the assumption...
Research report prepared by the Research and Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa.
Authorts: Tamiru Jote, Melaku Tekle
Humanitarian and displacement policy, programming and scholarship have paid insufficient attention to displaced persons with disabilities, often resulting in their exclusion...