The main focus of this study has been to fend out and describe the determinants. effects, and implications of child begging. In this regard, efforts have been made to assess the psychological, social and economic aspects of child begging as they are observed in two sub»city administrative areas of Addis Ababa, namely 'Arada and Addis Ketema'. The time frame for this study is between October 2006 and June 2007. Fieldwork was carried out from i)ecember I to December 30, 2006. The research...

This study has introduced the design of a Hidden Markov Model based LVCSR system in a new target language based on a different source language and without the need of a large speech databases on the target language. The Tigrinya LVCSR was developed using an Amharic Corpus consisting of 10,850 sentences and a limited Tigrinya data containing 600 sentences to train the acoustic models. The study was conducted based on the knowledge based approach taking the assumption that the articulatory repr...

The politesse of this study was to examine the Role of Parent Teacher Association (PTA) in Addis Ababa Secondary Schools. In the study, the research design and approach was case study and qualitative respectively The participants of the study were ten Two teachers, the directors, two student, three parents and Quality Education Assurance Insp ection Expert of the Woreda 's Education Office (WEO). The participants and the study area were selected using purposive sampling The instruments ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the practice of planned change in education at the local level. To meet the objectives of the study, relevant literature, documents, reports, periodicals had been treated. Descriptive method of study was employed. Questionnaires, interviews and observation were used as instruments for collecting information. T eachers, principals, Woreda education ojfiees heads and experts and members of parent teacher association were the source of data. An intervi...

The purpose of the study was to explore teachers' awareness, attitude and their practices towards multiple intelligence (MI) in education. The data were collected from Dembi government primary school fiom the principal, teachers and students via semi-structured interviews, and observation and analyzed using qualitative method of analysis. Relevant recordings about school setting were also analyzed. The participants for interview were selected purposely based on their willingness, professi...

The main objective of this study was to assess the practice of community skill training centers programs implementation in West Arsi Zone. In the study a descriptive survey research method was employed. 5(55.55%) community skill training centers were selected by simple random sampling method (Lottery method) out of nine (9) community skill training. The data were collected thought questionnaire, semi-structured interview, observation and document analysis. The participants were 42 train...

To investigate the role played by multilateral assistance to Ethiopian Education, explore its volume and the way it is administered and coordinated, the study was undertaken in 6 offices of multilateral agencies, 3 ministerial head offices, 10 region bureaux, 8 zone and 8 wereda education offices. The data were collected through questionnaire, interview and document analysis. Various statistical techniques such as percentages, t-test, chi-square, and correlation coefficients were used...

The assumed reasons provided for the current grim situation in Ethiopian forestry are diverse. This study identified forest property rights as the most important (defining) research entry point to understand the problem. The aim was to generate knowledge by studying past experiences and contemporary outcomes in forest property rights and draw lessons for the future. Moreover, through interviews, the study attempted to capture the experiences and perceptions, responses and preferences (in...

Researches were conducted on the housing issues such as physical condition, transformation, identity and so on. The importance of common places and their use as part of the activities that takes place and the significance of these activities for inner-city neighborhoods of Addis Ababa, however, were not given much weight. Thus, the main objective of the research is to explore activities of common places in one of these neighborhoods. To investigate this, a case study approach was select...

The main postscript of this study is to instigation challenges Aztlan opportunistic found in South West Shou Zone to the success of UPIL fo this end, descriptive survey methodology was employ. Both primary and secondary sources were used to gather relevant data for the study. The data collected from both sources were analyzed using percentage and mean. Primary data were collcctcd from tcachcrs, dircctors, OEB Offtcials, Zonal and Wercdas Education officials, and Zonal Women Affair Offici...

Recreation green spaces in urban areas, particularly those within the residential areas require proper design & planning consideration for two basic reasons. First, they provide a wide range of direct and indirect benefits (ecosystem services). Second, human activities within the green spaces have a great impact on the stability and continuity of the benefits generated. In the case of Addis Ababa, recreational green spaces, especially which are within the residential areas, have little attent...

The major purpose of this study is to assess the practices and problems of human resource training and development in Ethiopian Civil Service College. Descriptive survey method was employed to conduct the research. Stratified random sampling method was used to select sample respondents. From the total target population of 390 employees whose educational preparation is diploma and above, a sample size of 194 (91 admin. and 103 academic) respondents were selected. To gather data for the stu...

Addis Ababa as one of urbanizing cities of developing countries is facing a serious housing challenge. Currently in Addis Ababa low & middle income housing is mainly ‘addressed’ by the public funded integrated mass housing development program which is way back when compared to the scale of the problem. This study had explored a housing development alternative through cooperative-developer partnership by assessing a case, Semay-Tekes housing cooperative located in Addis Ababa, Sarbet area...

The major goal of this thesis was to conduct a study on the practices and challenges pertaining to clinical practice program in private TVE T Health Colleges and the respective cooperating health care institutions in Addis Ababa City Administration. To achieve the goal, this research attempted to focus on the administrative, social, economical and practical problems of both private TVET Health Colleges and health care institutions providing clinical practice. To this end, a descriptive su...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the casual relationship among service quality dimensions and overall service quality and overall customer satisfaction, and identify service quality gaps as experienced by institutional customers. Modified SER VQUAL model was used to measure the perceptions and expectations of broadband internet service customers of ETC. The study employed survey approach using structured questionnaire for the purpose of data collection, and a sample of 141 ...

This study discusses the contribution of street design, i.e. aspect ratio or height-to-width ratio (H/W) and solar orientation towards the development of a comfortable microclimate at street level for pedestrians. The investigation was carried out by using the three-dimensional numerical model ENVI-met, which simulates the microclimatic changes within urban environments in a high spatial and temporal resolution. Model calculations are run for a typical summer day in May 10, 2016 in Dire Dawa,...

Teaching and research are the two mam missions of Higher Education Institutions. However conducting research often marginalized as university devoted to teaching and administrative tasks. The problem seems to get worse in the current highly expanding Haramaya University, particularly in the newly emerged Education Faculty. The study attempted to understand the extent of instructors ' involvement in research activities to identify and evaluate the various factors influencing instructors'...

The aim of this study was to identify the current status of information communication technology (ICT) use in education in highs schools of area under study. The components of ICT that the study considered includes: instructional television (Plasma display panels), compacter and internet use that were introduced by Ethiopian government to improve quality of education especially in Preparatory level high schools. The primary objective of the study was to find out perceptions, opinion, and...

The study attempted to see the psycho social problems of female students with motor disorders. More specifically, it was designed to e.explore the level of their physical self esteem and problems they faced in the formation of Fiends. The study also examined the reactions of classmates and the interventions strategies that have been taken. The whole female students with motor disorders at Addis Ababa Universil;)I were the subjects of the study. The paper was grounded in qualitative ana...