G/ Egziabhere, Tegegne (Professor)Tadele, Woinshet2018-09-192023-11-182018-09-192023-11-182013-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/11991This study alfempted to assess the livelihoods conditions o.lstreet vendors in the urban informal sector o.l Eastern Addis Ababa, 'Jllfegenagna' and 'hahyahulet ' areas. It also depicts and analyses the major problems that vendors are facing in earning their livelihoods and intervention and responses by the government authorities. Livelihood approach is adopted to look at the issues to get insights on how street vendors are making a living in the urban inlormal sector in Addis Ababa. It has looked at how street vendors are making a living and how they have changed the access to assets as compared to their previous condition. In order to achieve the above objective, the researcher uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods and the relevant data were gathered through questionnaire, interviews and observations. The data collected Fom different sources were analyzed quantitatively (using Fequency and, percent) and qualitative textual method was deployed The study finds that, street vending is an opportunity to both rural and urban poor for making a living in the urban areas. The current livelihoods of street vendors, as compared with their previous occupation, have improved after gelling involved in the street vending. Access to assets shows street vendors have improved their physical, social, human andjinancial capital assets as compared to their previous condition. Thus, street vending in Addis Ababa can be accounted as a resource rather than a problem. However, there are conFontations between authorities and vendors over licensing, taxation and encroachment o.l public places and pavements. Street vending in spite of its crucial role for providing employment and livelihoods to both urban and rural poor, its economic importance is rarely recognized either in national poverty reduction strategies or in city governance initiatives. Urban authorities in Addis Ababa take it as an illegal and unproductive sector, and their response to street trading is, too often, harassment of Iraders and eviction, which causes conflict between authorilies and vendorsenStudy of Street VendorsThesis