The practices and problems of donors' assisted educational projects In provision of primary educationiIn Oromia regional state
No Thumbnail Available
Date
2007-03
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Addis Ababa Universty
Abstract
The process of making education universal has become both very important and
most challenging commitment for most low-income countries. This endeavor, in spite
of creating many school places and bringing about a relative decrease in the
enrollment has stretched the scarce resources of these countries beyond the limits of
being effective in attaining the goal of universalizing of primary education. The
inability to satisfy the growing needs of more school places, more teachers, more
equipment and facilities as well as more learning and teaching materials only from
domestic source of resources forces officials to look disparately for any alternative
at least not to let the situation get worse that is external aid. Thus the main purpose
of this study was to assess the practices and the problems of donor support in
provision of primary education in Oromia Regional State.
The method employed was descriptive survey and the data were collected from nine
zones of twenty Woredas of donor catchment's areas of the region. Totally 130(one
hundred thirty) subjects (80 beneficiaries, 20 donors and 30 decision makers)
selected by purposive and availability sampling techniques were included in the
study. The data were collected by means of questionnaires, interviews and field
observations transcribed and analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively using
statistical tools such as percentage, weighted mean, chi-square, t-test, f-test and
correlations .
The major findings of the study indicate that donors don't provide the budget timely,
and this resulted in increased cost. The amount of budget is less than the required
one, and this shows lack of transparencies on budgetary matters among the
concerned body. It is also observed from the study that determining priority is the
joint decision of only donors and OEB, but this exclusion of the beneficiaries
resulted in poor accomplishments of the educational project. The sustainability of
the educational projects are also completely depends upon the external aid.
Therefore, it can be concluded that the implementations of donor assisted
educational projects remained inefficient and ineffective in the region.
Therefore, it is suggested that further studies must be conducted on the issues
under the consideration. In addition, making agreement around the objectives of the
donors, proper use of the budget, involvements of beneficiaries in making decisions
of priority and the sustainability of the projects are indispensable for the effective
and efficient implementations of educational projects.
Description
Keywords
Education