Browsing by Author "Bekele, Hirut"

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    Construction Contract Administration Practices of the New Head Quarter Design-Build (DB) Project of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-06) Bekele, Hirut; Bekalu, Wubishet (PhD)
    This project work is about the assessment on the practices of project contract administration of the New Head quarter Design-Build project of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia where the concept of contract administration comes a long way in the practices of project undertaking. Thus, the researcher came up with a major research gap of which the effectiveness of DB contract administration on the project’s time, cost, quality management and variation of work . In addition, the researcher has further assessed whether this DB project contract Administration has become effective in terms of meeting its objectives of technology transfer and training through the contract administration.. The methodology was designed as semi-structured interviews, focus group discussion and site observation, then later descriptive analysis were made. Different kinds of secondary data were also greatly used as triangulation mechanism. The qualitative research came up with a finding that following the legal bindings, keeping confidentialities, having well experienced professionals on the project doing, is leading the undergoing project to be successful so far with regard to the well administered contract. Moreover, the advantage and disadvantage of the DB project contract Administration which has been newly introduced for the country is properly accessed
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    Natural Resource Degradation and the Predicament of Rural Women: The Case of Bugna Wereda, North Wollo
    (Addis Ababa University, 2000-05) Bekele, Hirut; Admassie, Yeraswork (PhD)
    This paper has al/ell/pted to exall/ine the ongoing natural resource degradation and its ill/plications on wOlI/en in the rural Gelesot (lowland) and Telfetit (highland) Kebeles in Bugna Wereda, North Wallo. Bugna Wereda is characterised by natural resource degradation and recurrent drought. The aill/ 01 the study was to find out the different ill/plications that natural resource degradation has on wall/en and their roles. By analysing the intra -household gender based natural resource utilisation, wall/en's ill/portant link lVith their natural environll/ent was reviewed. This has helped to analyse natural resource degradation and its negative ill/plications on wall/en and their roles. tvforeover, the difJerent responses and coping II/ echanisll/s that households ell/ploy during natural resource degradation were reviewed in relation to their ill/plications to lall/ily welfare, contributions to natural resource II/anagell/ent andlurther pressure on the existing natural resources. The finding has disclosed that wOlI/en have a day to day interaction with their natural environll/ent since they play all ill/portant role ill house/wid lood production, processillg and lood distribution. Moreover, it revealed that the degradation olnatural resources in the study area has resulted in reduced supply olnatural resources and has caused wider and cOlI/plex ill/plication on WOII/en, theirlall/ilies and their environll/ent.