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| Title: | Assessment of Community Participation in Slum Houses Upgrading Program in Addis Ababa: The Case of IHA-UDP Neighborhood Upgrading Projects in Kirkos Sub City |
| Authors: | Hussein, Seid |
| Advisors: | Alice K. Johnson Butterfield (Prof.) |
| Keywords: | Slum Houses
IHA-UDP Neighborhood |
| Copyright: | Jun-2007 |
| Date Added: | 6-May-2012 |
| Publisher: | AAU |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to assess the mode and the level of community
participation as well as motivating factors that make community members participate
in the upgrading program of rundown houses in the Kirkos sub city of Addis Ababa.
The participants of the study were community members from the neighborhood
groups, arbitration committee, facilitators and the ordinary residents. The study was
descriptive and explanatory in nature, and cross-sectional study design was applied.
The primary data was collected from four categories of people using qualitative data
collection tools of interview, FGD and observation. The findings of the data show that
community members from above categories have different forms of participation in
the program, and are participating as facilitators, supervisors and daily laborers. The
neighborhood groups, parting from the family to the kebele levels are more engaged
in the identification of dilapidated houses for the upgrading program, prioritization,
supervision of activities of other groups and mediation of conflicts. The arbitration
committee mainly involved in the arbitration of conflicts in the community together
with the neighborhood groups. The majority of the poor members tend to participate
as daily laborer while the well-to-do residents of the community occasionally assist
the daily laborers and facilitators. The studied groups also participate in the meetings
arranged for different purposes. The motivating factor that makes the ordinary
residents participate as daily laborer seems situation of their poverty and level of
education while those neighborhood groups and elderly people motivated by public
respects for working on behalf of the community. Besides, social services that
arbitration committee obtaining also pushes them to participate. Contrary to this, the
level of education, where majority of them didn’t complete even elementary level of
education, restrain them from involvement in the crucial processes at the planning
and decision making stages. All in all, the study found that none of the community
members (whether elderly, youth, Illiterate, educated, or men and women, and so
forth) are denied to take part in the program though they mainly participate in the
implementation stage. Furthermore, none of these groups dominated the process of
the upgrading program of the rundown houses. Rather, all categories of community
members are working as facilitators of the implementing organization that controlled
the key processes of planning, decision making and designing of the program. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2674 |
| Appears in: | Thesis - Social Work
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