2022/09/29, ICES@Addis Ababa

Community-based road
improvement and maintenance associal implementation in Ethiopia:
SATREPS-MNGD (Making Networksfor Glocal Development) [2]

ERITREA
YEMEN
SUDAN

ETHIOPIADJIBOUTI

Addis Ababa

SOUTH
SUDAN

South Omo
Jinka

KENYA

SOMALIA

Source (Kaneko & Shigeta 2020: 3)Morie KANEKO, Yoshinori FUKUBAYASHI, Shunsuke MATSUKUMA, Sohei SATO, Argachew
Bochena, Kassahun Yemane, Takuya HAGIWARA, Aino IKEDA, Yuusuke MIYAZAKI,Gebre Yntiso, Masayoshi SHIGETA and Makoto KIMURAThe Project Outline
COMPONENT1COMPONENT2COMPONENT

3

GeotechnicalEngineering research

1Applied Agricultural
Research

23

Social Implementation

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Objectives
To report on the activities of an international
collaborative research project between Japan andEthiopia, the Science and Technology ResearchPartnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS)

1.Background of component 3
2.The progress report of the component 3
3.The MNGD-ECO

1. Background of C3

Core members in Component 3

Prof. SHIGETA
Agric. Anthro.,
Area Studies

Dr.Kusse
President
Jinka Univ.

Dr.Eilias

Dr. KIMURAEngineering
GIS

Mr. MATSUKUMA
Anthro.,Area Studies

Dr. IKEDA
DesignProf.Gebre
Vice-president Social Anthro.

Jinka Univ.

Mr. HAGIWARA
Cult. Anthro.

Dr. FUKUBAYASHIEngineering

Dr. KANEKO
Anthro.,Area Studies

Dr. MIYAZAKI
Engineering

Mr. Argachew
Ph.D. student inArea Studies

Mr. Kassahun
Ph.D. student inArea Studies

Mr.Melaku
Jinka Univ.

Natural science backgroundsocial science background1. Background of C3

Planned activities for C3
3.1

To gather information on, and make analysis
of occurrences of road disasters as well as
the current state of countermeasures
undertaken in South Omo ZoneIdentify thelocation of theblack cotton in
the communityroad

Photo 20193.2

To develop operation models of construction
measures for problematic soil

Proposed site for test driving

Photo 20193.3

To establish operation models ofconstruction measures for problematic soil,
and road maintenance and management
systemDemonstration for construction ofcommunity road, December 2019

1. Background of C3

Progress of C3 research activities
As of this moment

’19

3.1

To gather information
on …

3.2

To develop operation

3.3

To establish operationmodels..

models’20’21*No field
research inEthiopia*Internet-basedresearch’22’23

3.1. To gather info.

2. Progress reportAugust 2019

1. Selecting model sites in FY2019
1) Recommended by the local officials,
2) Conducting preliminary research to create the lists
3) Preliminary research by international students,
Mr. Argachew & Mr. Kassahun

2. Getting the road traffic data etc. in thetwo model sites by the Jinka Field Research January 2022
Team[FRT] from June 2021-July 2022
3. Academic staff in JKU have conducted
their researchestaken by Jinka FRT2. Progress report

3.1 To gather info.

15th & 20th August 2022

Mr. Argachew Bochena
Title: Rural community roadaccess and its effects on staple
crop production: The case ofenset
production
andsustainability in South Aariworeda, Ethiopia

Kassahun Yemane
Title: Rural Road Development and Its Challenges in South Ari
Woreda, South Omo Zone, Ethiopia

2. Progress report

3.2. To develop operational model
Chemistry Lab.

18th August 2022

The weather station in theJKU community service
field [18th August 2022]

2. Progress report

3.3. Demonstration for community
road construction [November-December 2019]

Fig. 5 Discussion withthe Villagers and theProject Team(Matsukuma et al.
2021: iii)

Fig. 6 Villagers
Forming the Guttersfor Drainage(Matsukuma et al.
2021: ii)

Fig. 7 ZAIRAICHIMNGD issue2
https://repository.kulib.kyotou.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/26
2770/1/zairaichi_3_a.pdf

2. Progress report

3.3. To establish ...road maintenance& management system [August 2022]

December 2019

August 2022

Demonstration in the model site B in2019 and in 2022 [photos above]

Local officials in
the model site B

August 2022

3. MNGD-ECO

Planned activities for the C3from October 2022 to March 2023
To gather
3.1 information
on, …

To develop
3.2 operation
models …
To establish
3.3 …managem
ent system- Conducting field work by Japanese members andcollaboration with JKU & Jinka FRT.
- Collecting data for creating the disaster map
with the location of the black cotton soil
[Collaboration with the Component1]-Collecting the basic data from the weatherstation
Preparing for the test driving [Collaboration withthe Component 2]
Preparation for another demonstration in amodel site

3. MNGD-ECO

Proposed plan for the C3 in the MNGD project
GeotechnicalEngineeringresearch
AppliedAgriculturalResearchSocial
Implementation
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1COMPONENT

2

Collecting data/
examining casestudies- from the test- drivingon a road with plantbased additives invariety of geographic
COMPONENTfeatures
3 - from thedemonstration inmodel sites

MNGD-ECO:
Research Collaboration

Environmental
friendly additives for
Improvement ofroadbed

Community road
construction by taking
interdisciplinary
approach

3. MNGD-ECO

Open communication
for glocal-knowledge
on geotechnology forbuilding civil societyThank you very much for your attention.

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