Browsing by Author "Gashaw Kebede"

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    Awareness, Practice and Challenges of Liquid Waste Management: A Case of Wereda-9 Gulele Sub City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia- 2023
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-06) Gashaw Kebede; Shemeles Damene (PhD)
    This study examined LWM awareness, practice, and challenges in Addis Ababa. A household survey, focus groups, key informant interviews, and field observations were used to gather the data. While 2 FGDs were done with 16 community leaders, the 2 KII informants were professionals working in LWM government institutions, 2 environmental health experts and 2 executive officers of the study wereda. About 266 residents were included in the survey who were selected from research wereda sampling sites. Only 16.5 % of the residents responded that they have proper sewage system in place for disposing of liquid waste, while 10.9% of respondents said they used septic tanks, and only 12% discharged to sanitary sewers. In relation to this, 33.8% of the families surveyed took part in LWM training sessions. The Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Agency (AAWSA) supplies a variety of different sized vehicles to collect liquid waste. Accordingly 24.8% of survey respondents, while 0.8% use, reuse, and recycle liquid waste from flush toilets and 0.4% from urine toilets. With a significance level of P <0.001, the study found a significant correlation between age, education, and family size and LWM practice, training, and the use, reuse, and recycling of liquid waste. However, there is no gender biased relationship with having a septic tank, receiving instruction on managing liquid waste, and discharge of waste at the right location. Education level and monthly income have a history of having septic tank and LWM experience, according to the multiple linear regression factors that were provided. Age and educational level have historically had a significant impact on receiving training in LWM practice and proper management of liquid waste from homes to disposal sites. Poor awareness, financial constraints, low motivation and attitude, poor quality sanitary infrastructure and inadequate liquid waste handling equipment lead to poor liquid waste management practice. To increase knowledge, practice and tackle challenges of LWM in general in Addis Ababa city specifically in Gulele-sub city creating awareness, enforcing environmental laws, establishing quality sanitary infrastructures and allocating enough budget should be mandatory.
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    Information Needs and Seeking Behavior among Health Professionals Working at Governmental Hospital and Health Centers in Bahir Dar Town, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2012-06) Mulusew Andualem; Abera Kumie; Gashaw Kebede
    Background: Universal access to information for health professionals is a pre requisite for meeting the MDGs and achieving health for all strategy. In developing countries, a large proportion of the population, including health professionals have no or only poor access to health information resources due to poor infrastructures, economic related, poor attention, etc Objective: The purpose of this study is to assess information needs and seeking behavior of health professionals working at Governmental Hospitals and Health Centers in Bahir Dar town, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Methods: A cross sectional study design using quantitative and qualitative approaches was carried out to achieve the research objectives using 350 study participants. Self-administered questionnaire and observation checklist were instruments to collect the required data. Manually edited data were entered in to computer using Epi-info version 3.5.1; further cleaned and exported to SPSS statistics version19; then cleaned again and analyzed as needed. Frequencies, cross tabulation, chi-square, Odds ratio with 95%CI, and Binary logistic regression analysis were done to describe and assess associations among variables of interest. Results: Nearly all (97.3%) of respondents reported that they need health information to update themselves and support daily activities. More than half (54%) encountered problems on their daily activities due to information limitation. Major barriers to access information were geographical, organizational, personal, economic related, educational status and time. Only 145 (42.8%) respondents have access to internet at different places with various frequencies and have shown statistically significant association (p <0.05) with age, sex, monthly income, computer literacy and access, patient seen per day, working experience, and working site. Majority of study participants have too much limited access to different information resources,especially library and internet. More than half (57.7%) respondents seek information by consulting their hard copies when there is a need. About 151(44.5%) respondents prefer to access on job trainings and soft copies next to hardcopies. Conclusions and recommendations: Almost all respondents need to access health information and more than 80% of study areas have no library, internet and computer services. Therefore, great attentions and efforts must be done to help those starved health professionals working at those areas.
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    Study of CBE’s Mobile Banking Usage
    (A.A.U., 2021-01-07) Kidist Moges; Gashaw Kebede
    Now days, banks all over the world are changing their traditional or window based service to branchless. Ethiopian banks are also introducing different E-banking products but it is at infancy level and cash is still the dominant medium of exchange. Mobile banking is one type of E-banking product which is used to make financial transactions. But customers of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia are not satisfied with it. So understanding its success factors of is important for both customers and the bank itself. In this research, the researcher extended the Delone and McLean IS success model to the mobile banking by adding self-efficacy and trust as a success variable. This study aims to analyze the relationship between system quality, information quality, service quality, trust and self-efficacy to user satisfaction and use. In addition, the study aims to analyze the relationship between user satisfaction and use to a net impact. The model was tested by using partial least square structural equation modeling approach. It is both quantitative and qualitative study that was conducted in the form of a survey of 286 mobile banking users of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia and interview questions for some employees of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia. Both purposive and convenience sampling were applied to select bank branches and respondents respectively. Both SPSS V.20 and Smart PLS V2.0M3 were applied to analyze the demographic data and test the proposed model respectively. The findings revealed that information quality, system quality, self-efficacy has positive and significant effect on system use and user satisfaction. And service quality and trust have positive and significant effect on user satisfaction but negative and insignificant effect on system use. Finally, user satisfaction and system use have positive and significant effect on net impact. Based on the finding and conclusion, the study recommended that the bank should work on information quality, system quality and service quality of mobile banking to increase the usage of mobile banking service and its customer satisfaction. Beside this, the Bank should build its customer trust on mobile banking so as to boost its customer satisfaction and mobile banking usage.