Browsing by Subject "Ethiopia"
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The (mis)management of ethnolinguistic diversity in Ethiopian cities
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Ethiopia has an ethnic federal system that is based on the assumption that the ethnolinguistic communities of the country are located in neatly defined, or definable, territorial areas. On the basis of this assumption ... -
Mobility and ethnic federalism in Ethiopia
(Addis Ababa UniversityAddis Ababa University - School of Law, 2019)Ethiopia’s federal dispensation, ushered under the 1995 Constitution, guarantees ethnic groups – constitutionally termed as “nations, nationalities and peoples” – a wide array of self-rule rights. The Constitution also ... -
The politics of sub-national constitutions and local government in Ethiopia
(Perspectives on Federalism, 2014)The federal Constitution of Ethiopia provides the regional states - the constituent unit of the federation –with the power to draft, adopt and amend their own constitutions, thereby allowing each of the regional states to ... -
Prices and availability of locally produced and imported medicines in Ethiopia and Tanzania
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2017)Background: To assess the effect of policies supporting local medicine production to improve access to medicines. Methods: We adapted the WHO/HAI instruments measuring medicines availability and prices to differentiate ... -
Rethinking political crises in the Horn of Africa : local approaches to the territorial border in Ethiopia's eastern borderlands
(2014)Political crises are often more interconnected in the Horn of Africa than in other parts of the continent. The region challenges established notions of statehood and the trajectory of state formation in Africa. This paper ... -
Review: Groundwater resource potential and status of groundwater resource development in Ethiopia
(Springer Nature, 2019)The groundwater resources potential of Ethiopia is estimated to be about 40 billion cubic meters. Groundwater has been used as the main source of water supply since the 1970s for the main cities, towns and dispersed rural ... -
The rise of corruption in Ethiopia: Is a lack of constitutionalism to blame?
(Oxford, 2020)In 2001, a political division arose within the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF)1 , arguably the core the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the ruling party and a coalition of four ethnic-based ... -
The role of foreign investment in Ethiopia’s smallholder-focused agricultural development strategy
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)Recent foreign agricultural investment in Africa has generated a great deal of interest and criticism, with western media warning of a neo-colonial ‘land grab’. This paper moves beyond this narrow assessment by examining ... -
The role of health extension workers in improving utilization of maternal health services in rural areas in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
(BioMed Central, 2012)BACKGROUND: Community health workers are widely used to provide care for a broad range of health issues. Since 2003 the government of Ethiopia has been deploying specially trained new cadres of community based health workers ... -
Subnational constitutionalism in Ethiopia : Constitutional déjà vu
(Routledge, 2021)This chapter provides a concise account of the nature, scope and relevance of state constitutions in Ethiopia. The major armed forces that challenged state policy were the Eritrean liberation fronts that launched armed ... -
A tale of two federations: Comparing language rights in South Africa and Ethiopia
(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2009)The success of a federal arrangement in accommodating ethnic diversity cannot be measured solely on the basis of its language rights regime. However, it is generally agreed that a well-designed language rights regime goes ... -
Tracing shadows: How gendered power relations shape the impacts of maternal death on living children in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Elsevier, 2015)Driven by the need to better understand the full and intergenerational toll of maternal mortality (MM), a mixed-methods study was conducted in four countries in sub-Saharan Africa to investigate the impacts of maternal ... -
Visually negotiating hegemonic discourse through Photovoice: Understanding youth representations of safety
(SAGE Publications, 2018)Despite the immense communicative potential of visual methodologies, surprisingly few community-based research studies have meaningfully considered participants’ visual meaning-making processes. When working with youth ...