Educational Development Practices and Challenges in Local Governance Context: A Case of Gulomekeda Woreda

  Gebrehawerya Haile Hadgu

At the World Education Forum, Dakar 2000, and other national as well as regional initiatives and commitments regarding to education the international community has pledged itself to develop responsive, participatory and accountable systems of educational governance and management. However many states like Ethiopia have been witnessed challenged in bringing effective and quality educational development. Therefore in this research undertaking an attempt is made to assess educational sector development practices and challenges from local governance perspective taking Gulomekeda woreda as a focus of study. To come up with the required data pertinent to the research undertaking mixed research methodology was employed. To select the sample respondents for the research both probability and non probability sampling designs were used. First to select the three sample Kebeles out of the 19 in the woreda the researcher had employed simple random sampling and particularly lottery method. Where as to select key informants and interviewees from woreda education office, civic associations , schools, school principals, teachers and students the researcher had employed purposive sampling and particularly judgmental sampling technique. Moreover, documents of woreda sector offices, regional and national documents those have critical relevance to the research have been reviewed. Accordingly the research findings revealed that access to education, students enrollment and educational equity has been improved in the woreda, where as quality and educational efficiency( particularly educational efficiency in grade 8 to some extent, and to higher extent in grades 10 and 12) not yet promoted. The major challenges hindering educational development practices in the district are problems of good governance, poor educational management, the Ethio-Eritrean war and lack of finance. So that to deal with the challenges of educational development, ensuring good governance and participatory planning, capacity building practices both at woreda and school and kebele levels are recommended.

Keywords- Gulomekeda woreda, education, local governments, development, Kebele

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1604119
Page Number(s) - 779-803
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 4 | December 2016
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Gebrehawerya Haile Hadgu ,   "Educational Development Practices and Challenges in Local Governance Context: A Case of Gulomekeda Woreda", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 4, pp.779-803, December 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1604119.pdf