Browsing by Author "Henok Tefera"

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    Assessment on the Procurement Practices and Challenges of Humanitarian Food Aid Supply from Local Sources: The Case of Selected Humanitarian Organizations in Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-06) Henok Tefera; Tariku Jebena
    Procurement of locally produced food commodities from local source for food aid provides much greater net benefits both for humanitarian agencies, small-scale farmers, Farmers organizations and the host government, For humanitarian agencies such scheme could help in reducing transportation costs and other expenses that would be used to import from abroad, This study therefore carried out to assess major internal and external challenges that affect procurement of aid food from local sources by selected humanitarian organizations. With a Specific focus on World Food Program (WFP ) , National Disaster Risk Management Commission of Ethiopia ( EDRMC ) and Catholic Relief Service ( CRS ) to identify procurement practices , major internal and external challenges that affect performance of procurement of aid food from local sources The study attempt make analysis on procurement practice and its challenge of aid food from local sources, It specifically attempted to collect information regarding challenge in locally purchased aid food grains, undertaken an analysis of the major problems and constraints in the supply chain of locally purchased aid food grains Primary data collected using a purposive non probable sampling techniques and key informant interviewed for the sole purpose of this assessment, a mixed research approach and descriptive research design , are major methodologies employed in the study process, data analyzed to have a theoretical conclusion while each of them employs several components and process. Findings of the study indicated that both internal and external factors have a significant impact on procurement performances of aid food from local sources Key Words: price volatility, joint venture, speculation, integrated pest management,
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    Effect of Intellectual Capital Efficiency on Financial Performance: Evidence from Ethiopian Commercial Banks
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-12) Henok Tefera; Matiwos Ensermu
    This paper adopted Pulic (1998) model known as Value Added Intellectual Coefficient™ (VAIC™) to measure the effect of Intellectual Capital (IC) efficiency on the Ethiopian commercial banks financial performance of as measured on return on asset (ROA). Purposively sampled 15 commercial banks, which enable to answer research questions by focusing on particular characteristics of a population that are of interest, 75 observations for 5 years data from 2013 to 2017 was taken. VAIC and its three components, human capital efficiency (HCE), capital employed efficiency (CEE) and structural capital efficiency (SCE) along with the control variable firm size (SIZE), constructed from the annual financial statements. The assumptions needed to be fulfilled for OLS were tested; the residual was found homoscedastic, free of multicollinearity, free of autocorrelation and normally distributed. Regression models are used to test the hypotheses of the study where the results show that there was positive significant influence of IC as measured by VAIC on financial performance. Among the component of VAIC, the results showed that human capital efficiency (HCE) and structural capital efficiency (SCE) positively influence the financial performance of Ethiopian commercial banks while capital employed efficiency (CEE) has statistically insignificant relationship with the financial performance as measured by ROA. The study also provided evidence for existence of negative significant relationship between firm size and ROA. Based on the findings, recommended that, bank managers to establish separate department for proper record of all IC components and policy makers to take in to account human capital and structural capital while setting up policies and procedures so as not to negatively affect the financial performance.