https://repository.ju.edu.et//handle/123456789/127 2026-04-05T23:58:42Z 2026-04-05T23:58:42Z Belay Shiferaw Amanti Baru Raya Abafita https://repository.ju.edu.et//handle/123456789/10223 2026-03-10T08:37:03Z 2025-05-11T00:00:00Z

Narrative Hope and Despair: Exploring Khat Use Behavior Among Educated but Unemployed Young People In Jimma Belay Shiferaw; Amanti Baru; Raya Abafita This qualitative study explored the narratives of hope and despair surrounding khat use among educated but unemployed young people in Jimma city. Employing a case study design, the research investigates the patterns and motivations of khat use, the interplay between unemployment, despair, hope, and khat consumption, and the social and cultural factors influencing this behavior. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 20 participants selected through snowball sampling and analyzed thematically. Key findings reveal that khat use serves as both a coping mechanism for unemployment-induced stress and a means to construct temporary hopeful narratives. Participants described khat as alleviating despair by providing short-term joy and social bonding, though it often exacerbated long-term challenges, such as financial strain and social isolation. Structural barriers including corruption, limited job opportunities, and societal stigma were identified as root causes of unemployment, driving reliance on khat. The study highlights the paradoxical role of khat: while it fosters momentary hope and community among users, it also perpetuates cycles of dependency and hinders proactive job-seeking. This research contributes offering insights for policymakers to address youth unemployment and khat use through holistic interventions.

2025-05-11T00:00:00Z Zerihun Belihu Bisrat Tesfa https://repository.ju.edu.et//handle/123456789/8938 2023-12-13T12:22:31Z 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z

The role of indigenous knowledge practice in forest management: the case of Kaarra Baddessaa forest priority in Nadhi Gibe woreda Zerihun Belihu; Bisrat Tesfa The practice of Indigenous Knowledge in forest management is vital to sustain for forest management. The main purpose of this study is to investigate indigenous knowledge practice in forest management in Nadhi Gibe woreda and the major challenges hampering the indigenous knowledge practice in forest management in the study area. To achieve this, the study employed a cross-sectional design through qualitative and quantitative research approaches to collect relevant information and data. Data was obtained through the survey, FGD, in-depth interviews, key informants, and field observation based on the purposive sampling technique to get genuine and reliable information from local elders, religious leader‟s .woreda environmental forest protection and climate change authority, local farmers, forest and wildlife enterprise and kebele administration. The data generated was analyzed by using quantitative and qualitative techniques such as summarize, categorization, and thematic. Finding Show that awareness on forest management comes from the communities perception on forest utilization ,care and respect for the existing indigenous knowledge practices which have great contribution for the forest management, local administration were not caring, respect, appreciate and sustaining an indigenous knowledge practices im forest management is well understood in traditional way due to failure of local administration, failure of youngsters and increase of population size. It is recommended that the Indigenous knowledge practice and appropriate policy should be commensurate with forest management

2023-06-01T00:00:00Z Abduselam Aliyi Mummed Diribe Makonene Addisu Guta https://repository.ju.edu.et//handle/123456789/8937 2023-12-13T12:13:56Z 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Impact of Productive Safety Net Program on the Livelihood of Rural Households; the Case of Malka Balo District, East Hararge, Oromia Region. Abduselam Aliyi Mummed; Diribe Makonene; Addisu Guta Background: Developing countries including Ethiopia are affected by food insecurity problems. Many individuals and households especially the rural poor are the main victims of the problem. Ethiopian government with other development partners introduced the PSNP in 2005 to help chronically food-insecure households. Thus, this study has examined the impact of productive safety net program (PSNP) on the Livelihood of rural households in Malka Balo district, East Hararge, Oromia region. Specifically, it emphasized on assessing the impact of the program on beneficiaries‟ food consumption, creation and protection of households‟ asset and finally perception of beneficiaries towards the program. Methodology: The study used both qualitative and quantitative research approaches while techniques used for data collection were Key informant interview, focus group discussion, observation and Household survey. Moreover, secondary data source was also used from different offices. A total of 240 beneficiary households were selected using both purposive and simple random sampling techniques. Descriptive statistics such as Frequency, Mean and percentage were used to summarize results and present in tables. Results and Conclusion: The finding indicates that PSNP have made a positive impact on food consumption since the transfer insured gaining access to food for majority of households and on household asset accumulation except livestock asset which did not bring significant change. On the other hand, the program negatively affected the attitude of beneficiary households toward their work on their own farm land. Recommendation: Despite the efforts put on bringing the desired impacts, the study also revealed that there is still area of improvements that government and development partners must work on in terms of the program implementation strategy so that it focused mainly on households‟ livelihood diversification in order to bring sustainable development.

2023-07-01T00:00:00Z Diriba Niguse Ameyu Godesso https://repository.ju.edu.et//handle/123456789/8936 2023-12-13T11:45:57Z 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z

Informal Settlement on Green Public Space in Sululta Town: Policy and Practice Diriba Niguse; Ameyu Godesso The study aims to examine the causes, consequences of informal settlements on green public space as well as to analyze the policy constraints and institutional practice of the problem. The study was carried out in Sululta town administration of Oromiya region. The research has employed qualitative methodology and used observation, in-depth interviews, key-informants interview and focus group discussions as methods of data collection. The participants were purposively selected based on their knowledge of the study topic. The findings of the study demonstrated that the expansion of informal settlement on green public space in Sululta town is due to high demand for residential housing and low municipality response in providing residential land to the urban poor, governmental development sectors built like water reservoir and sheds for micro enterprises on these places in contradicting way with the plan, land speculators illegally occupy the places and sell to others to get more money. The consequences of the expansion of informal settlement on green public space are the ineffective and inefficient land management, social, economic, and environmental problems. There are policies in place to expand green public space in the town. However, there is no proper regulation and legal enforcement to prevent and control informal settlements on green public spaces. Another legal loophole is for the land owners to unfairly pay compensation before taking their land as public green space. Due to their discontent with the amount of compensation received, the land owners re-occupy the land designated as green space. Concerned institutions have taken different measures to control the informal settlements of green public space in the study area, including bringing informal settlers before the court, demolishing the built houses and keeping and protecting the place through social mobilization of those residing nearby the green public space. Since green public space is essential for the life of human being in the town, the municipality should establish a strong legal basis to prevent and control the practice of informal settlements on green public space in the town.

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