Assessing Youth Political Participation in Tercha Town Administration of Dawuro Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia

Abstract

This paper entitled assessing youth political participation in Tercha Town Administration of Dawuro Zone, SNNPR, and Ethiopia. The main objective of this research was to assess youth political participation, Challenges, and hindering factor that affect youth political participation in Tarcha Town Administration. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches of research were used. The study employed a descriptive research design to assess youth political participation. Both primary and secondary data were used. The primary data was collected through a questionnaire and interview from youth, officials and employers of different sector who have contact with youth. While secondary data was collected by conducting extensive desk review from published and unpublished documents like journals, articles, books, reports, etc. To obtain data for the study 365 youths were selected from total kebele using simple random sampling techniques and employs of selected public sectors by using the purposive method. The collected data were analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis. The finding of the study shows that the status of youth political participation in Tarcha Town, the involvement in politics by that age group is no means satisfactory i.e. shockingly low. This was mainly because lack of interest and knowledge in politics, absence of trust going on the political process, Lack of opportunities to get involved believes that their participation will not bring about any difference in the political process. In Tercha Town there is no more youth are participating in the political process rather than an election; for example decision-making activity, implementation, solving socio-economic problems.