Engida, Temechegn (PhD)Hordofa, Berhanu2018-08-092023-11-052018-08-092023-11-052001-10http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/11480Assessment of Community based schools functions, the case of Gedeo zone, assesses and evaluates the community school activity program. The program has been launched in Gedeo Zone since 1990 E.C. Since the program started 70 primary schools are assisted by this program. The objective of this assessment is the poor educational condition in Gedeo zone and the intention of knowing how far the Community School Activity Program has been implemented A research has been designed to collect adequate data on major areas of the assessment: Working directly with the community schools and the education system, increasing girl's participation in education, capacity building process, providing school improvement money and sustainability. The assessment process has been done by developing questionnaire; interviews, document inspection and school observation instruments. On these process headmasters, teachers, educational officials, experts and supervisors filled questionnaires, School managing committee and pupils were interviewed, school documents were inspected and the whole school condition was observed. The organization of this study consists five chapters. Chapter one treats background of the problem, statement of the problem, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definition of terms. Chapter two deals with the review of the related literatures, chapter three with research design and methodology, chapter four with data analysis and interpretation and chapter five with summary, conclusions and recommendationsenBased School FunctionsThesis