Browsing by Author "Nega, Fetene"

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    Assessment on the Outcomes of Promotion of Nutrition Education on Dietary Diversity Among Women’s of Reproductive Age (15-49 Years) and Children Aged 6-36 Month in Tigray Regional State Selected Rural Kebeles
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-11-03) Nega, Fetene; Baye, Kaleab (PhD)
    Poor nutrition disproportionately affects women and children in rural areas of low and middle income countries. This is linked with 45 % of child death. Mothers/caregivers inadequate knowledge of Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices and poor cultural belifes increases the risk of nutrition disorders. Integrating nutrition education with food preference and nutrition-sensitive agriculture has the potential to improve diets, but rigorous evaluation of this approach are limited. Therefore, the present study investigated the outcomes of promotion of nutrition education in the presence and absence of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions on WRA and their children dietary intake in the rural farming community. Quasi-experimental study with two arms 1) NSA+BCC and 2) BCC alone was conducted from February-May 2018 to assess the outcomes of promotion of nutrition education on dietary diversity among women’s of reproductive age and children aged 6 to 36 months in Tigray region selected rural kebeles. The study was designed to include 200 mother-child pairs and sampling were directed by using simple random sampling technique to select the study participants. Women and children dietary intake have been measured using qualitative open 24-hrs dietary recall technique adopted from FAO and WHO. In the baseline assessment, proportion of minimum DD was extremely low (4.9% women and 4.1% children) in the BCC group. At the endline, 20.8% of women and 32.5% children from the NSA+BCC group has met the recommended minimum DD. NSA+BCC significantly improved the proportion of women and children meeting minimum DD, when compared to BCC alone (P<0.05). BCC alone had also shown positive trend in dietary diversity between baseline and endline values. Although both BCC and NSA+BCC improve dietary diversity, the increase in the proportion of children and women meeting the minimum DD was significantly higher when BCC and NSA were combined. Therefore, in rural farming communities integrating BCC that is informed by food preference along with NSA is recommended to improve diets of women and children.
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    Causes and Effects of Cost Overrun On Public Building Construction Projects In Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2008-03) Nega, Fetene; Dinku, Abebe(Professor)
    Many projects experience cost overrun and thereby exceed initial contract amount. In Ethiopia, the number of public building construction projects is increasing from time to time. However, it becomes difficult to complete projects in the allocated cost and time. Taking into account the scarce financial resources of the country, cost overrun is one of the major problems in Ethiopia. Therefore, this research was carried out to dig-out information on the factors that cause cost overrun during construction and their effects on public building construction projects in Ethiopia. Questionnaire survey together with desk study was used to collect data on cost overrun. A total of 42 questionnaires from clients, consultants and contractors were collected and a desk study of 70 completed public building construction projects in Ethiopia were investigated and analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. From the results it was found that 67 out of 70 public building construction projects suffered cost overrun. The rate of cost overrun ranges from a minimum of 0% to the maximum of 126% of the contract amount for individual projects. In this research it was found that the rate of cost overrun decreases with the increase in contract amount. Respondents identified 39 causes of cost overrun for Ethiopian case. The most important causes of cost overrun were found to be inflation or increase in the cost of construction materials, poor planning and coordination, change orders due to enhancement required by clients, excess quantity during construction. Spearman rank order correlation analysis was used to evaluate whether consensus of opinions exists between groups of respondents (client versus consultant, client versus contractor and consultant versus contractor). From the analysis of the results it was found that consensus of opinion exists between respondents on the factors that cause cost overrun and on their rate of occurrence. The most common effects of cost overrun identified by this research were delay, supplementary agreement, adversarial relations among stakeholders, and budget shortfall of project owners. It is hoped that these findings will guide efforts to improve the performance of the construction industry in the future. Key words: cost overrun, cause, effect, rate, public buildings.