An Assessment of the Sustainability of Social Accountability Civic Engagement in Ensuring Good Governance and Participation: Adet Town
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2015-02
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Good governance is one of the pillars for rapid economic, social and political development. The
FDRE in its countrywide strategic plans (PASDEP, currently GTP) highly emphasized the need
to enhance community participation in policy formulation, planning, implementation, monitoring
and evaluation. It comprised a range of interventions such as human development,
democratization, enhancing peoples’ participation, integrated capacity building, transparency and
accountability. The sustainability of the social accountability civic engagements in creating
citizens participation by using dialogue and interface meetings enhance citizen’s participation in
planning, monitoring and evaluation of basic public service and that in turn promote the service
provision. However, insufficient state-citizen relationship, weak application of good governance,
and social inclusion hinder the smooth flow of the service provision in Adet town. Sustainable
participatory planning between communities and basic public service providers are still lacking
in many of the sector offices. The performance of the service providers in providing quality
service and good governance is not in a position to meet the need of service users. Therefore, the
major purpose of the study was assessing the sustainability of social accountability civic
engagements that ensure good governance, and how it will be institutionalize in the government
reform agenda in the future. It also identified the major areas of problems in implementing the
SA program related to service delivery and the SA civic engagements. The SA good practice and
outcomes has to replicate to other non targeted woreda and kebeles as well as sector offices.
The analysis was conducted by using a descriptive survey method by clustering the respondents
in to citizens, local governments, service providers, partner organization and ESAP management
agency. The sample is selected using judgmental sampling technique. To do this, the citizen’s
are first stratified in to youth; women, households, neglected, religious fathers and community
representatives, then questionnaires were distributed to 250 citizens by using simple random
sampling technique. Both primary and secondary data was used in the study. Moreover,
structured and semi structured interviews and FGD were conducted to gather relevant
information from key informant interview from service providers, local government, ESAP
management agency officer and partner organization OPRIFS
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Adet town