Assessment on the Impact of Youth Empowerment Effort in Changing the Lives of Micro and Small Enterprise Organized Solid Waste Collector Youths in Addis Ababa City: the Case of Arada Sub City
| dc.contributor.advisor | Assefa, Abebe (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Degu, Asmamaw | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-18T12:28:28Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T12:01:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-18T12:28:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T12:01:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research aims at assessing the impact of youth empowerment in the lives of micro and small enterprise (MSE) organized solid waste collector youths in Addis Ababa city. It assessed how being organized in micro and small enterprise change the lives of the youths; social and economic changes like income, level of education, housing condition and participation in local decision makings; the challenges of the youths because of their involvement in MSE as solid waste collection and the major achievement of youth empowerment effort by government. The first chapter gives background of the research, the problem statement, the research questions and objectives, and operational definitions. In the past, various development efforts have been tried to avert the miserable living conditions of the poor; but many of them remained unsuccessful. As part of the developing countries, different attempts had been made to improve the life of the poor in Ethiopia. Youth empowerment strategy was one of those efforts; central to the work of improving human lives and help people gain power and mastery over their lives. The second chapter is dedicated to the review of relevant literatures for the research. The Ethiopian government has formulated the youth development package to translate in to action the national youth policy with the view to alleviate the economic, social and political problems of the youths. The overall objective of this strategy was to enable the micro and small scale enterprises play significant role in the national development activities, particularly, in the creation of employment opportunities and poverty reduction. The third section (Research Methods) encompasses general information of study area and its population, the research design, sample size determination, the sampling technique and data collection, the research variables, data analysis and ethical considerations. In this study, a retrospective quantitative survey study design was used to describe and explain the efficiency of empowerment of youths through MSE, whether it brings a meaningful change in lives of solid waste collector youths. For this purpose questioner was prepared and distributed for 122 respondents and key informant interview with experts at sub city and woreda level was conducted. Chapter Four is consecrated to the presentation of the results and discussion, and the final Chapter Five gives conclusion of the research findings and implications. Empowerment is bringing a comprehensive change and development among people and does not mean an increase in capital. The findings of the study revealed that event though members monthly income level, amount of saving, decision making in family and community, and consumption pattern have been increased but respondents literacy level is yet improved, they were not received different trainings that will help their advancement, they were susceptible to different health related injuries and problems and their standard of living is not significantly changed as a result most of the youths were lived in temporary accommodations | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/1360 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social Work | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment on the Impact of Youth Empowerment Effort in Changing the Lives of Micro and Small Enterprise Organized Solid Waste Collector Youths in Addis Ababa City: the Case of Arada Sub City | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |