The Study of Two Selected NGOs Operating in Gulelie Sub City, Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Asrat, Wudneh
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Literatures indicated that there is a broad consensus developing on the critical role that NGOs economic strengthening intervention can play in a comprehensive response to the needs of households and communities. There is, however, significantly less agreement on effective approaches to implement CEE programs. Therefore, assessing the framework guiding the community economic empowerment projects of NGOs is an important research area that helps to know what components are included in the project intervention. Moreover, the impact of the CEE intervention on the economic status of beneficiaries needs to be measured using different indicators to know the actual change brought by the NGOs. Secondly, even though there is less agreement on effective CEE approaches, there are general and acceptable components that need to be included in CEE projects. Assessing if there are missing components in the implementation of CEE activity by the NGOs is an important research issue that requires critical investigation. Finally, engagement and active participation of the community in general and project beneficiaries in particular in the implementation of CEE interventions gets major emphasis in most of the literatures. In addition to this, the fact that CEE is an ongoing and recent intervention by Ethiopian NGOs, it will be an excellent opportunity to study the community's knowledge about the framework guiding the NGOs. Both primary and secondary data are used for the purpose of this study. Descriptive and statistical tools such as paired sample T- tests and Pearson correlations are used in analyzing the data collected. One major finding is the organizations enrollment; screening and beneficiary categorization procedure is evident that their framework addresses economically disadvantaged groups of the community. However, coordination between the two organizations found to be nonexistent. Moreover, the awareness level of saving and self-help group leaders (FGD participants) found to be much better than the ordinary beneficiaries. The study also found out that majority of the respondents are either rarely or never participated in project need assessment and planning phases. In addition to this, one of the impacts of the NGOs intervention is the dramatic change in the saving habit of beneficiaries. Most of the respondents used the loan for productive investment while significant number of beneficiaries utilized the loan they have accessed from the project for unproductive purpose such as consumption and to repay other loan. In addition, majority of the respondents witnessed improved monthly income after the NGOs project intervention. The study has found more beneficiaries who are engaged in SMB after NGOs intervention. Vocational skill training, social asset inclusion and linkage with formal financial institutions have not been given much emphasis both in the organizational project implementation framework, project guidelines and other documents. The organizations should allocate more resource and effort to make the community more aware about their project intervention frameworks. Their impact on community economic empowerment would also be improved by incorporating vocational skill training, social asset inclusion and strengthening linkage with formal financial institutions