Browsing by Author "Tesfaye, Yonas"

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    Assessment Of Project Management Practice. The Case Of 20 Ethiopian Resident Charities In Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-06-22) Tesfaye, Yonas; Teklemariam, Dereje (PhD)
    The study used Project management Institute’s PM solution’s Maturity model to assess the Project management practice level of 20 Ethiopian resident charities. The objective of this study was to assess project management practice and process maturity level of the Ethiopian resident charities. The study used standard questionnaires for project managers, the model uses levels 1-5 in increasing order. Level 1 is the lowest project performance of the organization without following a structured approach to implementing projects while level 5 is the highest performance by the organization with continuous improvement. The finding of the assessment indicated that the overall assessment of all project mangement process group is 2.28 with little variations among the process groups The findings of the study also revealed that the overall practice on maturity of project management knowledge areas is found to be 2.15 Among the knowledge areas Cost management is relatively better maturity level of 2.68. Quality, Human resource, and Risk management are the least matured areas with a level of 1.9,1.925 and 2.025respectively. There is no significance difference among the rest of the project management knowledge areas This shows, on average, the organization Project Management process and practice maturity is at the basic level. Thus, improvement efforts should be taken to improve the current level of project management practice of all the project management process group as well as all the PMBOK areas
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    Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior (KAB) on HIVIAIDS Among Members of Ethiopian National Association of Blind (ENAB)
    (Addis Ababa University, 2008-07) Tesfaye, Yonas; Susuman, Sathiya (PhD)
    This study targeted to assess Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior (KAB) on HIV/ AIDS among members of Ethiopian National Association of Blind (ENAB) using both quantitative and qualitative data. A total of 442 members of ENAB from Addis Ababa were taken as study subjects by simple sampling technique. A cross-sectional study design was employed in this study.This study discusses the sampling procedure employed and the quality of data and examines the relationship between knowledge, attitude and behavior (KAB) and s elected background characteristics of the study population using uni-variate, and multivariate statistical techniques of data analysis. In multi-variate analysis, logis tic regression model has been used.The dependent variables (KAB) were tested against the independent variables: age, religion, ethnicity, income level and place of previous residence were used as significant variables. The findings showed that universal knowledge of HIV/ AIDS among members of ENAB in Addis Ababa. However, knowledge of HIV/ AIDS by itself doesn't guarantee for sexual behavior change among the study population. There were significant variations in sexual behavior among the study population with their age, current marital status, income level and place of previous residences. Attitude (perception) towards the disease was found almos t equal chance to be infected with the disease among male and female respondents. Misconception also was observed in the mode of HIV / AIDS transmission among the study population. The study has found that the youth (15-19), Never Married, No income Group and those pre vious places of residence was not Addis Ababa need protection. Finally, the study concluded by providing possible recommendations, that may help to improve the exis ting high level of knowledge, attitudinal and behavioral modification among the study population.