Browsing by Author "Demeke, Tamiru"

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    The Behaviors and Dynamics of the Real Exchange Rate of the’ Birr’ After the Economic Reform
    (A.A.U, 2005-06) Demeke, Tamiru; Admassie, Assefa (Dr.)
    The paper adopts a single equation approach to examine the real exchange rate behavior and exchange rate misalignment after devaluation and foreign exchange I' ate liberalization. The paper finds that real exchange rate and the macroeconomic fundamentals affecting real exchange rate are co integrated. It also shows that devaluation, foreign exchange market liberalization and some of the policy measures taken by government such as reducing government consumption and deficit, new investment policy and other measures that increase the capital il'iflow narrow the gap between the parallel market foreign exchange rate and the official market foreign exchange rate, make the behavior of the real exchange rate fairly variable. In other words, the misalignment of the real exchange rate declines and the exchange rate movement becomes more stable. These are the desired goals that could be achieved by the devaluation of the exchange rate and through foreign exchange rate liberalization.
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    Practices and challenges of Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS program: A case study of Addis HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office (AAHAPCO).
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-02-22) Demeke, Tamiru; Markos, Solomon(PhD)
    Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is the most important component in the project management. Despite its importance, the effectiveness of M&E system is affected by various factors. Addis Ababa HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office (AAHAPCO) runs HIV/AIDS projects which are supported by government of Ethiopia and international organizations. This research aims to assess the practices of M&E in AAHAPCO and identify the challenges. The method used for this study was census. This method was selected for two main reasons. The first reason is the number of staffs who were engaged in project implementation and M&E activities were few. The second reason was to obtain sufficient data from the aforementioned staff. During data collection, out of the total project and M&E staffs who were supposed to be fill the questionnaire, more than 90% of them filled and returned the questionnaires provided to them. The research found that although most of the respondents have first degree and ample work experience in project management and M&E, majority of them did not have sufficient knowledge about M&E policy, framework, guidelines and procedures of the office because they were neither oriented nor provided these documents at the time of or after employment. The second finding of this research is that M&E is practiced regularly and in participatory approach and also the management utilise the information produced by M&E staff. However, the M&E officers do not have sufficient technical knowledge of M&E but perform their activities using the tradition method that they were told to do. The third finding is that the practice of M&E is challenged by lack of budget, the existence of different reporting requirement by different funders, time consuming implementing activities, and lack of skill in M&E. Thus, it is recommended that AAHAPCO should build the capacity of M&E officer by providing orientation and providing the M&E policy, procedures and manuals to new employees and also enabling the old-timer M&E staff to get training or formal education in M&E. Moreover, AAHAPCO should allocate sufficient budget for M&E activities.