Browsing by Author "Mekonnen, Teferi"

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    Assessing The Role of Stakeholders’ Participation To Ensure Educational Good Governance In Secondary School: The Case of Dejen Town Administration,
    (Addis Ababa University , 2020-08) Bizuayheu, Demissie; Mekonnen, Teferi
    The purpose of this research was to assess the role of stakeholder’s participation to ensure educational good governance in secondary school the case of Dejen Town Administration and to examine the major challenges that might hinder the implementation of educational good governance. Shaping and constant improving of education performance constitute one of the most significant tasks of the comp temporary education. The aim of the study is to show the role of internal and external stakeholders of education in shaping the concept of educational good governance in secondary education. As based on literature and own research, the role of each group of stakeholders in school performance was presented. The research was conducted through survey interview, questionnaire among, teachers and principals of educational institutions. This study investigates how different stakeholders are involved in to performance in secondary school. The study is based on empirical survey data gathered from 1 secondary school providing educational good governance in relation to the role of stakeholders’ involvement in Dejen Town Administration. To this end the study employed descriptive survey method, which involves both qualitative and quantitative methods.
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    Assessing Youth Involvement in Peace Building: The Case of Fagita Lekoma Woreda, Awi Administrative Zone, Amhara National Regional State
    (AddisAbaba University , 2020) Beyene, Yosef; Mekonnen, Teferi
    The aim of this study is to assess youth involvement in peace building in selected kebeles of Fagita Lekoma woreda in Amhara National Regional state. Simple descriptive research design was used for the study. Simple random or lottery method and purposive sampling techniques were used in order to select respondents, interview and discussants respectively. Accordingly 130 respondents, 21 interviewees and 12 discussants were selected from 3800 study population. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered through the questionnaire, interview and FGD. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistical and thematic analysis. The results of the study revealed that the youths in Fagita Lekoma Woreda identify as they have the ability to build peace in their areas. The findings indicate that the youth in the study area play great roles in peace building. They are open-minded, dynamic, influential, decision maker, and involved in peace building practices regardless of age, gender, and religion. The study revealed that the youth have various challenges in their peace building practices such as unemployment, inferiority feeling, alcoholism, inadequate youth communication platform and lack of awareness creation on peace building. The findings showed that there were no different opportunities created for the youth to be involved in peace building practices including access to education, self-esteem empowerment, and the availability of youth leagues. Therefore, various points were recommended based on the major findings of the study.
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    Assessing Youth Involvement in Peace Building:The Case of Fagita Lekoma Woreda, Awi Administrative Zone, Amhara National Regional State
    (Addis Ababa University , 2020-08) Beyene, Yosef; Mekonnen, Teferi
    The aim of this study is to assess youth involvement in peace building in selected kebeles of Fagita Lekoma woreda in Amhara National Regional state. Simple descriptive research design was used for the study. Simple random or lottery method and purposive sampling techniques were used in order to select respondents, interview and discussants respectively. Accordingly 130 respondents, 21 interviewees and 12 discussants were selected from 3800 study population. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered through the questionnaire, interview and FGD. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistical and thematic analysis. The results of the study revealed that the youths in Fagita Lekoma Woreda identify as they have the ability to build peace in their areas. The findings indicate that the youth in the study area play great roles in peace building. They are open-minded, dynamic, influential, decision maker, and involved in peace building practices regardless of age, gender, and religion. The study revealed that the youth have various challenges in their peace building practices such as unemployment, inferiority feeling, alcoholism, inadequate youth communication platform and lack of awareness creation on peace building. The findings showed that there were no different opportunities created for the youth to be involved in peace building practices including access to education, self-esteem empowerment, and the availability of youth leagues. Therefore, various points were recommended based on the major findings of the study
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    An Assessment of the Roles of Grievance Hearing Office on the Promotions of Good Governance: The Case of Guna Begemidir woreda
    (Addis Ababa University , 2020-08) Talema Guade, Dessalegn; Mekonnen, Teferi
    This study assessed the roles of grievance hearing offices on the promotions of good governance in Guna Begemidir wereda. In this study a simple descriptive research design was employed. It was also done by using a mixed approach research methodology. The questionnaires and interviews were used as data collection instruments or techniques. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted by using the Statistical Package for the Social Scientists (SPSS) computer software. A total of 320 respondents from 1,583 total populations were included in the study. The study also investigated by using purposive sampling. The data were gathered through questionnaire, interview, and document analysis. Quantitative data were analyzed using percentage and Frequency whereas qualitative data were analyzed based on the quantitative dada. The study revealed that the grievance hearing offices in general plays a great role on the promotions of good governance but in Guna Begemidir wereda this office could not act as such. This was because the offices were ineffective in resolving the grievances of customers.The major short comes of the grievance hearing offices not to resolve the grievances of the customers were the low salary of the grievance hearing officers and the dependency of the grievance hearing offices by the supervisors. Though this were the major obstacles, but the lack of implementations of the given law and the low educational levels of the grievance hearing officers could also recognized by this study as the short comes of the grievance hearing offices. There were no actions taken by the grievance hearing offices in this wereda to strength their role in resolving citizens‘ grievances, but there are deferent indications to be taken to strengthen the grievance hearing offices. These include; the government is expected to prepare successive training for grievance hearing officials, allocate the proper payment for the employees‘ in the grievance hearing offices, the grievance hearing offices are also expected to clarifying their performance to the citizens. In addition to this, they also expected to be simplicity and promptness in their actions. In the same way, in order to make the performance of grievance hearing offices more effective and productive, the grievance hearing offices are expected to conform to the existing legislation. At the end of the investigation, this study also recommended to which it concerns.
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    The Blue Nile Issue: A History of Hydropolitics, 1884-1974
    (Addis Ababa University, 2004-03) Mekonnen, Teferi; Ahmed, Hussein (Professor)
    The hydropolitics of the Blue Nile had an impact on developments affecting modern Ethiopia. The issue has played a crucial role in the struggle between Ethiopia and the powers over the control of the lower basin, and was transformed in the nineteenth century. The century witnessed Egypt’s vigorous attempt to secure the unimpeded flow of the Blue Nile River. This development became more acute and gained a new momentum when European powers developed an interest in the region and realized that both the economic survival of Egypt and the prosperity of the Sudan were dependent on the good will of Ethiopia that had direct jurisdiction over the source of the Blue Nile. The main objective of the thesis is to show the dynamics of the hydropoltics of the Blue Nile within the broad context of Ethiopian history. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Blue Nile was one of the main factors that led the British to violate the Adwa or Hewett Treaty of 1884 and to promote the Italian colonial interest in Ethiopia up to 1896. By 1902, the British had ensured the unobstructed and continuous flow of the Blue Nile River. In the first half of the twentieth century, the British carried on protracted diplomatic negotiations with the Ethiopian government to secure a perennial water supply from the Blue Nile by constructing a dam at the outlet of Lake Tãnã and turning the lake into a water reservoir. Even though the British diplomatic efforts were a fiasco, they had an impact on the history of Ethiopia and the major events of the period. In the 1950s, Egypt’s decision to build the Aswan High Dam relegated all previous plans of developing the entire Nile Basin to insgnificance. The decision not only put the Lake Tãnã Dam project to the side line but also brought the hydropolitics of the Nile into its vortex. Subsquently, Ethiopia called for the equitable and fair utilization of the waters of the Nile as v well as planned to develop the Blue Nile Basin. This was the main factor behind Egypt’s hostile policy towards Ethiopia until the 1960s. This study argues that lack of far-sightedness particularly on the part of the powers intensified the Nile issue. The river could not be disconnected from national sentiment and treated as a common and shared natural resource among the riparian states. This is a major impediment to equitable and fair utilization of the waters of the Nile.
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    Cross-Section for Double Heavy Quarkonium Production in high Energy Electron-Positron Collisions
    (Addis Ababa University, 2010-06) Mekonnen, Teferi; Bhatnagar, Shashank (PhD)
    In this thesis we rst give a Lagrangian formulation of the gauge theories QED and QCD. We derive the Feynman rules for QCD . AS an application of the rule, we rst present the calculation of cross section for the process q+ q ! g+g as a mathematical preliminary. We then derive the 2-particle Bethe-Salpeter equation. Then we evaluate the cross section for the production of double heavy quarkonium production in high energy electron-positron collisions at the center of mass energy p s 10.6 GeV. The cross section for the process of e+e􀀀 ! J= + c at the stated energy has been calculated by applying the two-particle Bethe-Salpeter wave equation. We have used the heavy quark limit and calculated the cross section for the lowest order diagram. The results are in broad agreement with the Belle's data available recently
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    Rural Land Disputes and Its Socio-Economic Consequences in Amhara National Regional State: The Case of AndabetWoreda, South Gondar Administrative Zone
    (Addis Ababa University , 2020) Asefa Alemue, Yihunie; Mekonnen, Teferi
    This study is aimed to assess the causes of rural farmland dispute and its socio- economic consequences in Andabet Woreda, South Gondar Administrative Zone, Amhara region. To address this objective of the study, the researcher employed mixed research method with cross sectional survey design. Both primary and secondary data were used. The sources of the primary data were questionnaire filled by 133 sample households, key informants’ interview, discussions with focus groups and observation. Secondary data sources include published and unpublished documents, reports and other related materials. The findings of the study reveal that the frequent types of farmland disputes in the study area are boundary dispute, ownership dispute, inheritance disputes and grazing land disputes. The findings also depict that farmland disputes have impeded the social life of the disputant farmers. As per the findings of the study, a farmland dispute terminates the social interaction of the community. Furthermore, the disputed parties are always vulnerable to high financial costs such as court fees, transportation cost, fees for getting legal advices, accommodation costs. Farmland dispute has a negative effect on all aspects of human life