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    Climate Change Governance in Addis Ababa City Administration, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-07) Tigezaw Lamesegin; Belay Simane Birhanu (Ph.D., Professor); Tesfaye Zeleke Italemahu (Ph.D., Associate Professor)
    In the face of mounting greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerability to climate change risks, instituting a viable climate change governance system has been one of the arduous challenges in the context of developing country cities like Addis Ababa City. The objective of this Ph.D. dissertation was to understand urban climate change governance practice in Addis Ababa City with a focus on existing practice, actor’s involvements, contribution factors, institutional interactions, and policy tools. A mixed research design was employed whereby most of the study objectives were based on bulk of in depth qualitative data generated from experts, government officials, CSOs and the private sectors, which was also complemented by a range of secondary data. A survey of 232 respondents, who were environment experts at different levels, was conducted using questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics and regression models. The results indicate that the city's current environmental policies, strategies, regulations, proclamations, laws, and its implementations are encountering significant obstacles due to weak accountability, insufficient regulation enforcement, and inadequate engagement of essential stakeholders, particularly civil society organizations and private sectors. These shortcomings are attributed to a deficient institutional framework and the absence of formal systems that enable private sectors, communities, and NGOs to collaborate in addressing climate change. Hence, the findings revealed that the current climate change governance practice in the city was found to be ineffective. On top of this, climate change governance is significantly hindered by lack of coordination, political will and leadership, inadequate finance and lack of policies, regulations. A study on climate governance modes in city has also revealed that climate change mitigation and adaptation measures are mainly implemented through provisioning and self-governance, while enabling and regulation are not widely used in climate governance practices. It is suggested that there is a need to give due attention to climate change and its response measures through an established strong accountability system to enforce regulation, rules, proclamations, laws, policies, and strategies in different sectors. The city government should create an enabling environment to attract non-state actors, in general, and NGOs, in particular, and should practice awareness creations, workshops, continuous trainings and capacity buildings at different levels