Browsing by Author "Tadesse, Girma"

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    Exploring the Application of Geographic Information System in Health Organizations Working on HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs in Ethiopia.
    (Addis Abeba University, 2010-06) Tadesse, Girma; Lensa, Lemma
    Background: Understanding issues ranging from medical epidemiology to healthcare access requires a comprehensive understanding of their geography. In health organizations, GIS provides powerful tools for geographic and spatial analysis, and it allows visualizing data that may have gone unnoticed in spreadsheets, charts, and other reports. Despite the availability of a number of functionalities of GIS technologies with convenient cost, their applications to the health sector in preventing HIV/AIDS is not explored. Objectives: To assess the extent of GIS applications and identify barriers to its adoption, diffusion and utilization in HIV/AIDS prevention programs. Methods: Organization based survey was carried out in Addis Ababa between March and May; 2010.The study participants are organizations working on HIV/AIDS programs at national level. The study employed quantitative and qualitative methods. The data are entered, cleaned and analyzed using SPSS version15 statistical software. Result- Current GIS use among organizations working on HIV/AIDS prevention programs, 18(26.9%) are using GIS technology for program planning and management. Lack of GIS awareness (42.9%), GIS skill (18.4%)and clear GIS strategy (16.3%) are major barriers to the adoption and utilization of GIS among organizations included in the study. Lack of GIS skill (OR=0.07, 95 % CI (0.01, 0.71)) and awareness on GIS use (OR= 0.15, 95% CI (0.04, 0.48)) found to have associations with the current use of GIS in an organization. Conclusion- The study discovers that the uptake of GIS technology in the HIV/AIDS prevention programs is very low. The main reasons identified are Lack of GIS awareness, skill, strategy and poor data sharing experience among organizations. To improve the adoption and use of GIS in the health sector, I recommend organizations to create GIS awareness, develop GIS skill and enhance data sharing with and within the health sector, and investigate further the adoption and use of GIS technology in the health sector in general.
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    Port Service and Its Effect on Humanitarian Logistics in Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2016-06) Tadesse, Girma; Ejigu, Abebe (PhD)
    The aim of this study was to assess the significance of port service provision in humanitarian aid services and the level of organizations’ satisfaction in Addis Ababa. The main reason for selecting the topic was that the service the community demanded was not given significant emphasis, while the demand for humanitarian service is rising in absolute terms in recent years both from the public and donation. Hence, it is found to be a critical area for the underlined problem. The research design selected in this study is a descriptive, cross-sectional design. The data was collected all at the same time (or within a short time frame). The data showed that analysis of trend of growth of supply of goods imported for humanitarian services decreased from 2008 to 2015. The price change in 2008 was dramatically increased by 89.08 % whereas there are two years (2010 and 2013) which have decreased the importing goods in relief food and foods items by 43.25 % and 39.60 percent respectively. The result indicated that there is a very low responsiveness to customers, offering choices of non-standardized services; that lead by persuasions and incentives as a factor of port service demand. Flexible and adaptable to deliver high quality goods and services and empower citizens rather than simply serving those as institution are also the problematic issue in port service in Ethiopia. The correlation analysis illustrate the relation between the port service satisfaction and humanitarian logistics as it is highly or strongly correlated as r=0.705 and r=0.864 for correlation between humanitarian logistics and port availability and r=0.933 for humanitarian logistics with port cost. But port service demand has a weak correlation (r=0.046). It can be concluded that this study measures port efficiency or performance indicators use a diverse range of techniques for assessment and analysis, but although many analytical tools and instruments exist, a problem arises when one tries to apply them to a range of ports and terminals for humanitarian logistics. It is recommended as the need of a proper port performance measurement based on indicators: macro performance indicators quantifying aggregate port impacts on economic activity, and micro performance indicators evaluating input/output ratio measurements of port operations in the country