Tilahun, Temesgan PhDBade, Ahmed2021-12-102023-11-182021-12-102023-11-182021-09http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/29163The study was conducted at Jigjiga town of Fafan Zone, Somali regional state, Ethiopia with the objective of the study of assessing the correlate of microfinance and food security. The study employed a cross sectional design. Jigjiga town has 20 kebeles and two branches of microfinance institute, then the researcher selected the main office of microfinance institute by purposive sampling because the office offers trainings for the participants quarterly like; short and long term training related to way of receiving, saving loans and credit services and how to repay based on the signed agreement of the participants. Random sampling technique was used to select 100 households. Both primary and secondary data sources were used. Correlation analysis was used to identify associate degree between microfinance services and food security status of participants in the study area. Repayment of loan have statistically significant negative correlation (r=-.275**, P= 0.01) that expressed as repayment of loan received by the participant of microfinance service increases also their food security status decrease. Regarding to time for repayment fitness by the participants has statistically significant positive relation to their food security status(r=.221*, p=0.05) that indicated as time to repay the loan increases also the food security status of the participants increased at 95% of level of confidence which show that as one of these variable increase or decrease via-versa. According to the descriptive statistic of the stud, it revealed that 47 (47.0%) of the respondents were male and 53(53%) were female so this findings revealed that microfinance services participated more women than male in the study area. According to age of household respondents, 52 (52.0%) of the 100% of the participants were the age between 30-35 which means that microfinance service practitioners targeted on the productive age of the poor active participants in Jigjiga town to secure their future food accessibilityenFood security, Loan, Micro saving, Micro credit, Micro insurance, JigjigaThesis