The Role Of Ngo On Urban Poverty Reduction In Jimma Town

Abstract

Global poverty is one among the biggest crisis facing the world today. Reducing the global poverty especially in developing countries has been a discussion across the world capitals for the past several decades. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been at the forefront in developing countries providing services, conducting emergency operations and development work. This study was conducted to assess the role of NGO’S on the reduction of urban poverty in Jimma town. For the sake this study a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches of doing research was employed. The study used simple random sampling technique in order to determine the sample size. By using Tayro Yaman sample determination technique from total population of 330, the study selected a sample of 181 respondents and only 171 respondents were respond the questionnaire. Data was collected from both primary and secondary sources. The obtained data analyzed through the application of descriptive statistics (frequency and percentile) and inferential analysis using statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 23. The obtained result shows that majority of the beneficiaries are female compared to male, NGOs are playing a significant role through provision of health education and training, by making of the health service easily accessible, construction of sanitation facilities such as toilet and participating in the provision of clean water, NGOs have a positive contribution in the construction and renovation of schools, fulfilling the needed materials such as desk and furniture, offering capacity building training and improvement of the quality of education, manage regular, technical and vocational school and able to reduce school fee of the beneficiaries, able to skill transfer and closed the gap in education outcome in Jimma town, another finding in nutrition show that NGOs providing enough food, reducing the growing food problem and disease arise from malnutrition, and improved the economic condition of the poor and enabled them to go by from poverty, NGOs enabled the communities to participate in decision making, facilitate provision of credit, enabled to take action by themselves, help marginalized groups like, elderly, disabled people, and mobilize resource in order to reduce poverty in Jimma town, and generally NGO has a significant contribution in reduction of poverty in the areas of health and sanitation, education, nutrition, and community empowerment. The study recommends that the selections of beneficiaries should focuses only on the residents of a kebele that around the NGO, therefore the organization (EECMY-DSSC) needs to incorporate residents or beneficiaries in other kebele