Community Development and The Role of Community Organizations: A Study in Northern Ethiopia

Mequanent, Getachew

doi:10.1080/00083968.1998.10751148

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“…Ethiopia's programmes to address land degradation indicate that top‐down policy and planning practices have, in the past, proved ineffective in dealing with questions relating to location‐specific environmental conditions and sustainability of livelihoods of local communities (Campbell, ; Hoben, ; Mequanent, ; Rahmato, ). Although current decentralisation policy in Ethiopia suggests a shift to greater community decision‐making, we have demonstrated that this participation is fairly limited.…”

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Participation and Performance: Decentralised Planning and Implementation in Ethiopia

Snyder

Ludi

Cullen³

et al. 2014

Public Admin & Development

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SUMMARYThis article discusses how decentralisation policies are enacted in the planning and implementation of natural resource management interventions in rural Ethiopia. A key element of decentralisation policy is the emphasis on greater participation by local communities. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with government staff and farmers, this paper illustrates how different actors perceive and implement national policy and how these actions affect the longer‐term sustainability of land management interventions. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Participation and Performance: Decentralised Planning and Implementation in Ethiopia

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Public Admin & Development

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“…While they find that in rural areas mahbär are strictly gender segregated and single sexed, we find that it is not uncommon to find mixed-gender mahbär in urban areas. In his study Getachew (1998) analyzes mahbär in its own right by exploring the associations' potential for supporting rural-development initiatives. The present article builds on and supplements this existing work by focusing on gender and urban areas.…”

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Religious Mahbär in Ethiopia: Ritual Elements, Dynamics, and Challenges

Flemmen

Zenebe

2016

J Religion Afr

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This article explores the religious association mahbär, also called tsïwwa, in Ethiopia. Data from lay practitioners as well as priests show that religious mahbär has many religious as well as social functions. It is a ritual with long traditions in the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church. The authors show that what characterizes mahbär as a ritual is its unusual richness, complexity, multifunctionality and flexibility. By placing it within the Ethiopian religious context and the present development, the authors discuss why religious mahbär is in decline despite its multiple functions, flexibility, and support from the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahïdo Church. In difficult economic times one would expect traditional rituals such as mahbär to become more important to people, and hence to be strengthened, but this does not seem to be the case here. In the authors' view, three factors are pushing this decline: economic challenges, time constraints, and member recruitment. everyday lives. Furthermore, we situate it in the web of connections of which the ritual is a part. After locating mahbär within the religious context of Ethiopia and within the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahïdo Church, we then describe the elements and dynamics of the ritual, and analyze the different factors that make mahbär important to Orthodox Christians as well as the factors pushing people away from it. We problematize and discuss how to understand the declining popularity of this particular indigenous association. As we see it, three factors are pushing this decline: economic challenges, time constraints, and member recruitment.

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Measuring development results: lessons from Ethiopia

Mequanent¹

2012

Development in Practice

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Community Development and The Role of Community Organizations: A Study in Northern Ethiopia

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Participation and Performance: Decentralised Planning and Implementation in Ethiopia

Participation and Performance: Decentralised Planning and Implementation in Ethiopia

Religious Mahbär in Ethiopia: Ritual Elements, Dynamics, and Challenges

Measuring development results: lessons from Ethiopia

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