Browsing by Author "G/Michael, Yohannes"

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    Assenssment Of Event Logistics Mangement Practices And Challenges: In The Case Of Exhibition Center And Market Development Enterprise
    (Addis Ababa University, 2020-06) G/Michael, Yohannes; Ensermu, Matiwos(PhD)
    The objective of the study was to assess the practices and challenges of Event Logistics Management in ECMDE, Addis Ababa. Specifically, this study intended to explore and empirically test the practices and challenges of the event logistics management in three phases namely; planning phase, execution phase and closing phase. In planning phase considered supply of customer, product and facilities practices, execution phase considered event site logistics practices, and closing phase considered in shutdown practices. A systematic literature review was made to identify variables and their items to design a structured questionnaire. A total of 272 questionnaires were distributed to Organizers Company, ECMDE’s employees, exhibitors, and stakeholders from these, 239 questionnaires were filled and returned with a response rate of 87.87 percent. Descriptive statistics like percent, mean and standard deviation were used to describe the practice and the challenges of event logistics management in ECMDE, Kendall’s Wallis coefficient of concordant of the rank order analysis model is computed to rank the challenges affecting the event logistics in ECMDE. The result of the study is triangulated using qualitative data (collected using interview, group discussion, and observation). The result of the analysis in planning phase supply of customer practices revealed that it was moderately practiced, but supply of product, supply of facilities, in execution phase on-site (event) site logistics and closing phase shutdown practices resulted in poor practice in the organization and hence the challenges were found to be strong. The top four ranked (severe) challenges are Economic, Technological, environmental and social challenges. Finally this study recommend that while perform event logistics management during planning, execution and closing phase should upgrading the infrastructures, stakeholders should coordinate and jointly prepare appropriate logistics plan, assess the risk before execution phase, should implement standard event logistics management procedure in all phases, provide oversea exhibitors registration procedures and incentives, should be provided to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of grand bazaar and festival the flow of equipment, good, artists and VIP to be fast, managing crowded, waste management system should be implemented, emergency procedures protocols should be provided, and additional expansion building, space and features needed to handle international and big events, in shutdown event should focus on increasing the efficiency of the staff to fast removal of equipment, temporary building and installations to provide ready for next event, improve fast exit clearness permission procedure and provide fast checking on evacuation of participants.
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    GIS Based Assessment of Road Traffic Accidents in Adama (Nazerth) City
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-06) G/Yesus, Berhane; G/Michael, Yohannes
    Adama (Nazerth) has become one of the traffic accident city in Ethiopia. In the city the numbers of fatalities, injuries, property damage and economic as well as social lose is increasing from time t time. The aim of the study is t identify and locate accident spot areas, temporal and spatial variation, the incident causes, effects and arrive at effective counter measures that can bring about a behavioral change for road traffic accidents in Adama city. The methods and procedures used in gathering the study data from the records or reports of traffic police. The primary data collected by questionnaires with close ended and open ended of two types. The first questionnaire is filled by officers, pedestrians, police, students and teachers of section of the population which consist sample of 80 which equally distributed 16 for each category of people. The second questionnaire is filled by the drivers’ consists of 60 sample size. The questionnaire filled by automobile, Bajaj, minibus, cyclists, truck and bus drivers randomly distributed. Descriptive analysis of the magnitude and variation of road traffic accidents collected from traffic police records as a form of secondary data. In order to investigate road traffic accident the research employed GIS techniques to identify accident spot areas. The result of the study revealed that occurrence of road accidents: fatalities, slight and serious injuries and property damage in the city showed an increasing trend. From unevenly distributed 1949 spatially road traffic accidents from the study period 2004/05 to 2013/14, 264 were death, 283 were serious injuries, 359 slight injuries and 1043 were property damage. The communication between traffic police and drivers’ seem unfair that one might benefit the other when committing violation of rule and regulation of traffic law rather educational measurement. Most of the drivers did not report an accident for the traffic police to take immediate measure. At the driver side wearing of seat belt, for some consuming alcohol and drug and using mobile phone when driving vehicles are problems identified the role of the pedestrians are also identified particularly when crossing road side in proper way. The study generally comments the way how to minimize road traffic accident with collaboration of government and other stake holders to intervene in the road traffic accident in Adama. Key Words: Accident Spot areas; Road Network; Road Traffic accident; Road Safety Law and Enforcement
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    The Livelihoods of Women Headed Households in Amaro Woreda in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State
    (Addis Ababa University, 2011-06) Tazeze, Amare; G/Michael, Yohannes
    Women are essential to economic growth in developing countries. They play different roles including productive works for earning income and food for the family. They also engage in reproductive works which include food reproducing and preparing at homes. In addition to this, they also play the reproduction role of bearing the labor forces. However, they are not free from gender based discriminations which is experienced since long time which is also seen in Ethiopia. In Amaro woreda in particular, they also face many challenges. Traditionally, they do not inherit land and other resources from their parents. They do not share properties with their male spouses during divorce. The polygamous practice in the area results in the division of the existing land or other properties among the wives of the husband and this makes life difficult for those women who take the risk of heading the household lonely. Above all, the area is currently hit by food insecurity problem for which women are more vulnerable. Therefore, it was intended to study how the women headed households earn their livelihoods aiming to analyze their livelihoods, access to resources and their coping mechanisms to food insecurity. To this end, two sample kebeles were selected systematically from Kolla and Woina Dega agro- ecological zones on the basis of the information secured from the woreda agriculture and rural development which showed the existence of high food insecurity problem in these agro- ecological zones. Out of these kebeles, 60 each from each kebele was selected representing 38% of the kebele’s total women headed households and constituted a total of 120 sample women who were selected through simple random sampling and provided the required data which were collected through the house to house survey by distributing questionnaires, interviews, application of focused group discussions and by analyzing written sources about the woreda. Then, analysis of data was followed and on the basis of this analysis, it was able to come up with a number of findings which revealed the existence of many problems which the women headed households face in association with their livelihoods. These include livelihood and food insecurity, earning low income, less access to institutional services and capitals, low level of participation, low infrastructure coverage, disease, lack of labor support and others. Finally, recommendations of the researcher follow which is expected to be presented to the stakeholders so that they should work for solving the problems of the women by creating alternative livelihood strategies which are not dependent on the changing climate, and by improving food security, income levels, access to technologies, capitals, institutions, and levels of participation of women and by improving infrastructural provisions such as transport, pure and water supply