An Assessment on the Practices of Financing of Technical Vocational Education and Training Institutions in Addis Ababa City Administration
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2011-04
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to assess the practices of financing public TVET
institutions in Addis Ababa city Administration. To this end descriptive survey
method was employed. The sample consists of 12 principals and vice principals
44 department heads, 4 TVET leaders in the sub city, 9 experts of TVET 12
finance and purchase officers. Purposive sampling approach was employed in
selecting principals, vice principals and TVET leaders where as simple random
sampling method was used to select the TVET expert and finance and purchase
officers. A questionnaire structured, interviews and documents were used as the
main instruments of data collection. The data collected from these sources were
analyzed using percentages and rank order. The results of the study clearly
indicated that there were noticeable problem in practices of financing public
TVET institutions. Major problems that affected the practices of financing in TVET
institutions were limited source of finance shortage of budget for training, budget
execution problem, using of traditional budget preparation and allocation
mechanism. To alleviate this problem diversifying finance through searching new
sources externally and internally within TVET institutions, involvement of all the
direct beneficiaries (the government, employers), improving ways of purchasing
and distribution of material and budget utilization through training and revision
of the existing system.
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Technical Vocational Education and Training Institutions