0101, 2023

Leveraging cross-border cooperation: a durable solutions approach to the South Sudan displacement crisis

By Admin|January 1, 2023|Publications|0 comments

People in South Sudan have experienced decades of forced displacement and cross-border mobility, resulting in families split across the country and neighbouring Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. As of 2021, more than four million South Sudanese citizens were displaced either internally or internationally. Over the past four years, over 500,000 refugees and over 1.1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to their habitual residence. This policy brief discusses long-standing

0308, 2022

Closing the environment-migration gap in climate policy and programmes in the Horn of Africa

By Admin|August 3, 2022|Blogs|0 comments

This blog series is related to the REF’s ongoing study on climate change and migration in the Horn of Africa. This research study is being carried out in Ethiopia (Somali Region), Kenya (Tana River County) and Somaliland (Togdheer and Maroodijeex regions). The study investigates how people use migration as a strategy for adapting to environmental change and how people’s circumstances and profiles influence their migration decisions. The study also explores

1107, 2022

REF conference 2022: towards greater inclusion and protection for migrants and forcibly displaced persons

By chrisjordan|July 11, 2022|Blogs|0 comments

In June 2022, the Research and Evidence Facility (REF) of the EU Trust Fund for Africa in the Horn of Africa convened its second international conference around the theme ‘Migrants and Forcibly Displaced Persons: Towards Greater Inclusion and Protection’.

0402, 2022

From a ‘crisis of migration’ to everyday ‘mobile livelihoods’

By chrisjordan|February 4, 2022|Blogs|0 comments

Caitlin Sturridge outlines the growing evidence for understanding mobility as a relatively unremarkable part of everyday life, development and change.

1711, 2021

Land, climate change and internal migration: Experiences of the young Wolayta of Southwestern Ethiopia

By Admin|November 17, 2021|Blogs|0 comments

New research from Bereket Tsegay investigates how land fragmentation, climate change, and livelihood opportunities and aspirations influence young people’s migration from the Wolayta zone in Southern Ethiopia.

2005, 2021

Informality and procedural innovation at borderlands: Lessons from Mandera

By Admin|May 20, 2021|Blogs|0 comments

A blog from Ngala Chome on his personal experience of border crossings and the impacts of formal border infrastructure.

2005, 2021

Webinar: Cross-border movements between Kenya and Somalia

By Admin|May 20, 2021|Blogs|0 comments

This webinar examines the dynamics of cross-border movements between Kenya and Somalia.

1305, 2021

The relationship between economic/employment opportunities and migration

By Admin|May 13, 2021|Blogs|0 comments

This webinar explored efforts by governmental and non-governmental organizations to expand economic and employment opportunities in the Horn of Africa and the influence of these initiatives on mobility dynamics, especially among young people.

0105, 2021

COVID-19 and forced immobility in the Horn of Africa

By Admin|May 1, 2021|Publications|0 comments

Oliver Bakewell, Research & Evidence Facility Abstract 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 mobility across the world and the region. This paper will explore the nature of pandemic’s impact on mobility compared to the impact of other crises. Most other

2403, 2021

IGAD conference: Human Mobility in the context of COVID-19

By Admin|March 24, 2021|Blogs|0 comments

From February 22-24, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) convened a scientific conference on Human Mobility in the context of COVID-19 in Addis Ababa. The conference examined the immediate and longer-term impact of COVID-19 on migration and displacement in and around the IGAD region.