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    An Assessment of Land Related Service Delivery in Addis Ababa: The Case of Bole Sub City
    (Addis Ababa University, 2011-06) Wolde, Tilahun; Abeje, Wondimu (PhD)
    The issue of land has been a critical factor in political and economic development in Ethiopia. Land administration and governance is important for smooth progress of the overall development of the nation. In a country like Ethiopia, the provision of land administration services has always been the respon sibility of the public sector. Given that the public sector is the only service provider, the efficiency of land related services has been questionable. With this hypothesis, this research aims to assess the performance of service delivery of land related services at Bole sub-city of Addis Ababa City Administration. Both primary and secondary data were collected and analyzed using quantitative and qualitative methods. Descriptive analysis has also used to get full understanding of the situation, which included tables, percentage and graphs. The primary data were collected from managers, staffs and customers from two offices of land administration at woreda level (Woreda 13 and 14) and the Sub-city office, whereas secondary data were gathered from various literatures and documents.The paper found out that proclamations and guidelines for land related service delivery of the city administration have some gaps and are not clear for the officers and also not harmonized with other land related laws. The organizational structure and capacity of the offices are weak and require immense improvement in terms of availability of adequate staff with the appropriate technical skills, and institution al infrastructure/ resources. Although there are notable achievements as a result of implementation of land related reforms, the reforms have not sustained with some of them back to their pre-reform status. The research has found that only 24% of the customers are "quite satisfied" or "fairly satisfied" with the quality of services provided by the sub city showing that the service delivery of the sub city is inefficient and unsatisfactory. Some of the reasons for such inefficiency might be long waiting time and poor coordination among the offices. This is justified by the respondents as 62% of the cu stomers perceived that there is weak coordination across various land offices. Most of the customers perceived as the services (e .g. building permit service) take longer time than the service standard set by the office (7 days instead of 5 days). On the other hand, "processing time" has substantially improved according to 72% of the respondents.The paper recommends on the need for strengthening capacity of the city administration to enable it to develop clear and harmonized land policies and guidelines. Intensive capacity building activities should be carried out. The respon sibility should also be decentralized to the lowest woreda level. Finally, the study recommends that additional activities must be implemented to promote land related services in a transparent, accountable, sustainable, effective and efficient manner with good land governance
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    Assessment of Safe City for Women and Vulnerable Groups in Addis Ababa: the case of Bole, Nefas Silk, Kolfe and Lideta sub-cities
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-06) Berhanu, Mesfin; Abeje, Wondimu (PhD)
    This research is concerned on the assessment of safe city for women and vulnerable groups, Even if the issue is burning no researches have been carried out in Ethiopia except the work of Action aid 2013 that Action aid only sees the link between services and violence against women; however, why the city is unsafe? What are the factors affecting safety in the city? What are the public spaces perceived as unsafe are not addressed by any researcher? My study; however, attempts to determining key f actors affecting safety and safe city, identifoing spaces that are perceived and experienced as unsafe and distinguish the major safety risks of women to access public spaces, The study employed a case study approach to observe single case at a time, Quantitative and qualitative approaches and data collection instruments were also employed. Both primary and secondary data sources were used in gathering the necessary il?fo rmation. On the other hand purposive sampling and simple random sampling used to select the target group, The major findings of this study were that most of the public ;paces such as bus stations, public transport and markets in some areas and road sides were perceived as unsafe, On the other hand the study further found that robberies, assault, sexual harassment, rape and murder are the major risks in using public spaces, Poor lighting, poor environmental design and poor infrastructure, crowded public transport/bus station, lack of efficient police patrol, lack of people 's movement, lack of clean and safe public toilet and lack of clean and safe road sides identified as major factor that contribute to unsafe conditions, In general safety and safe city are affected by poor environmental design, poor infrastructure, crowded public transport/ bus station and lack of visible police, Hence to attain the Millennium development goal of 3 "promote gender equality and empower women" that concern on women's empowerment there is a need to build safer city, To this regard it is suggested to urban design and planning institute to design plan and policies to ensure women '.I and girls' safety and to create safer city, Key Words: safe city, environmental design, police patrol, surveillance,
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    Determinants of Urban Poverty in Debre Markos, Ethiopia: A Household Level Analysis
    (Addis Ababa University, 2006-08) Alehegn, Esubalew; Abeje, Wondimu (PhD)
    The study assessed dete rminants o/urban poverty in six Kebeles: Kebele 01, 03, 04, 05, 08, and 12 of Debre Markos 1011'11. The source used in the study comesFom primmy data. A total o(2MI household heads were selected to undertake the research and a systematic random sampling \I'as employed to selecl households.A Logistic regression model was employed and estimoted based on the primary data, with the probability of a household being poor as a dependent variable and a set of demographic and socioeconomic variables as the explanatOlY parameters. By making use of Food Energ)' Intake , (FEI) approach the surveyed households are identified as {he poor and non-poor. Based on {his, out of the 260 surveyed household heads, 172(66%) of them were found poor, the head count, poverty gap, and severity index of the survey obtained as 0.66,0.21 and 0.09 respectively. The variables that are positivel)' correlated with the probahility of being poor ore. Sf.\'. household size, and disease incidence of the household Variables negC/lively correlated ,,.ilh probability of being poor are: incol~1e, educational level, marital status, emploYll1el1t. age. housil1g tenure, and water source. Variables, which affected significantly the incidence o{poverty in the tOll'n, are: average monthly income, family size, educatianallevel, and disease incidence o{ the households,. Religiol1, ethnic group, dependency, productive .IcII1Iily memhers, main sOIll'ce or wOler and SlUt us of eleCiric conl1eClion were found statistically insignificunt il/dim{or.l· III poverty.