Browsing by Author "Assefa, Fitsum"

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    Identifying Ethiopian National Mining Cadastre System (Enmcs) Post Implementation Success Factors the Case of Ministry of Mines of Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-06-11) Assefa, Fitsum; Beshah, Tibebe (PhD)
    With the aim of bringing transparency and efficiency to its mining sector, Ethiopia implemented a web based mineral licensing and administration system named FlexiCadastre with the support of the world bank back in 2008. However, the post implementation utilization of the FlexiCadastre is inconsistent between federal and regional mineral licensing bureaus and did not bring the intended business benefit. The strategic direction put forward for the mining sector of Ethiopia in the second growth and transformation plan (GTPII) is attracting foreign direct investment to the mining sector. In an attempt to revive a decline in foreign applicants Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) upgraded FlexiCadastre System to Ethiopian National Mining Cadastre System (ENMCS) with an e-government portal to improve the mineral licensing and administration‟s transparency and efficiency which in turn is believed to boost investor confidence. The ENMCS has gone live in December 2019. However, with no empirical study conducted on the post implementation challenges that resulted in the underutilization of the FlexiCadastre and the scarcity of studies on land administration system post implementation critical success factors will makes it difficult to objectively identify factors that will improve the post implementation utilization of the ENMCS. The objective of this study is to identify technical, organizational and operational factors that affect the post implementation utilization of ENMCS and based on the identified issues to propose a high level ENMCS post implementation utilization improvement organizational guide. This research is a case study where a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods has been employed to collect and analyze data. The study‟s research model is proposed after extensive literature review on land administration system (LAS) and ERP post implementation related literatures. The proposed research model that is based on the literature review indicated three major themes; Technical, Organizational and Operational themes that affect the post implementation utilization of the ENMCS. A survey questionnaire that is adopted from literatures and contextualized to the case of ENMCS to quantitatively measure the constructs under the three themes is administered to the population of the study that is 73 federal and regional level ENMCS users. To triangulate the quantitative method findings of the study a qualitative method is applied by administering semi-structured interviews with purposively selected two federal and three regional mineral licensing and administration directors. iv Descriptive and inferential analysis has been conducted on the quantitative data of the study using SPSS. The interview findings of the study are arranged into major themes and narrated. The descriptive statistics of the study revealed that 50% of the respondents disagreed on top management having a discussion with them on the impact of ENMCS on their work. The vast majority of survey respondents, 89%, disagreed being made aware of ENMCS upgrades and unavailability through email. The inferential statistics revealed that organizational and operational issues to have a significant positive relationship with the ENMCS perceived usefulness and overall satisfaction of using the ENMCS. The interview findings triangulate the descriptive and inferential statistics findings of the study as they revealed the organizational theme construct of top management commitment having a crosscutting impact on all the constructs of the technical, organizational operational themes. The organizational guide is proposed based on the findings of the study for the constructs that are critical for improving the post implementation utilization of the ENMCS using the people, process and technology concept as a guide.
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    The Role of Compassion Ethiopia in Reducing Wastage in Primary Schools of Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2007-06) Assefa, Fitsum; Alemu, Yekunoamlak (PhD)
    The main objective of this study was to investigate the role of Compassion assisted projects in the effort to reduce dropout and repetition rates of primary schools of Addis Ababa. Descriptive survey method was used to conduct the study. The study was conducted in 5 projects selected from 5 clusters of projects in the city. The subjects of the study were 153 project beneficiary primary school students, 70 teachers of the students, 25 parents, 5 project directors and 5 kebele officials. Data were collected using questionnaire, interview, Focus Group discussion, observation and document analysis. The collected data were analyzed using statistical tools such as percentage, t-test, mean, one way 4\NOVA, Post Hoc test, and rank order. The study revealed that the projects are following intervention strategies such as the provision of nutrition support, health services, educational support, sanitary materials and counseling services as well as coverage of 'educational costs and awareness raising activities. The impact of the intervention differs from project to project based on the availability of project facilities which highly determine the effectiveness of their activities. Therefore, projects that are able to perform their activities effectively with the necessary facilities have made a considerable positive impact on the children with regard to school characteristics, academic performances and in reducing repetition and dropout rates. On the other hand, in those projects that are deprived of the necessary facilities that are crucial to their effective performance, the impact of the intervention is found to be lower than it could be. The attitude oJ the community towards the projects' role in reducing dropout and repetition rates differs among groups of respondents. While parents believe that the projects' role is very high, teachers and kebele officials hold that their role is high and low respectively. However the attitude of the community doesn't differ from project to project. [n general the projects are doing well in terms of health service, tutorial service and sanitary material provision while they are weaker in the provision of follow up and counseling services although there are differences among projects r The findings of the study were used to draw conclusions and forward recommendations.