Browsing by Author "Mohammed Endris"

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    An Assessment of Service Delivery Practices in Angolelaena Tera Woreda Educational Office of North Showa Zone, Amhara Region
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-06) Mohammed Endris; Abebe Mulugeta
    Ethiopian government has implemented Education for All to improve the human capacity status of the citizen in order to have skilled man power. One of the area to produce skilled manpower is primary, secondary and reparatory Schools under the coordination and supervising of Woreda Education Office. The main focus of the study was to undertake how service delivery Practices implement in Angolelaena Tera Woreda Educational Office for their internal customers. As to the research methodology, descriptive method was used. Purposive based on geographical location to select sample school. Five (5) primary schools, two (2) secondary schools and one (1) preparatory school were purposively selected from the Woreda. From these schools a total of 130 teachers were randomly chose n. Purposive sampling was utilized to select Woreda Office Administrators. Observations and interview were applied to obtain first-hand information. Furthermore, the data were collected through closed and open ended questionnaires, interviews and document review. Thus, questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive methods which mainly focused on data presentation and analysis using frequencies and percentiles. To this end, the major findings were the service delivery which is given in Woreda Educational Office for their internal customer has some shortage like doing things based on standard, with written and transparency information for all teachers which are working indifferent schools. Speeding up the service delivery on education standards, transparently, free communication,human capacity building for teachers and administrative bodies the major recommendations put forwarded
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    Farm Households' Choice of Crops, Commercialization, and Risk in North Shewa, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2024-03-01) Mohammed Endris; Belaineh Legesse (PhD)
    The world is currently facing a challenge due to rising food prices. It is acknowledged that increasing smallholder farmers' productivity and commercializing their operations are important techniques for addressing food security. Ethiopia is utilizing a variety of policies to increase agricultural GDP contribution and achieve food selfsufficiency. Investigating the process of farmers' decisions in relation to risk is more important to connect these policies with the governments' pro-poor efforts. This study focused on crop selection, risk, and mung bean in this aspect. Crop choice is a method for effective land use, stabilizing food prices, and establishing a wholesome food system. A total of 400 smallholder farmers were selected using a Multi-stage random sampling technique from kewot woreda of North Shewa, Ethiopia and surveyed using an interview questionnaire. Crop producing activities covered 72% of the total income. The study also showed that market-related issues including transportation, weak enforcement of land contracts, and shortage of wage laborers during harvesting have a detrimental impact on agricultural income. Additionally, the results showed that households had obtained land through redistribution and acquisition. The study also found that women were insufficiently involved in agricultural decision-making. Mung bean is found in the crop mix of 64% of farmers. The higher profit per hectare is seen in mung beans, although the maximum calorie density per hectare is found in sorghum. Mung beans are also positively correlated with selected commercialization xi indices. Sorghum, teff, onion, and mung bean were identified as the dominating crops, accounting for 95% of all cultivated area, according to the crop choice study. Appropriate econometrics methods were applied to each objectives. According to the crop portfolio choice results, 73% of respondents said they preferred marketing to consuming when choosing their crop portfolio. Despite greater respondent heterogeneity in the risk assessment of onions, mung beans were shown to be a crop with higher risk. Result on the variables that affect how risky farmers' crop portfolio choices are, shows that livestock ownership and education have a positive association with portfolio riskiness whereas irrigation use and being male headed household had a negative correlation. This study's primary contribution is the way it explicitly addresses the risk assessment of the farmer. The main policy conclusion is that, through insurance and crop-specific subsidies that focus on calorie-revenue tradeoffs, farmers can make decisions about their crops without being constrained by risk or their own consumption.