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Exploration of Involvement of Educators’ in Strategic Planning Sessions of their Department
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
44-49
Received:
8 June 2021
Accepted:
30 June 2021
Published:
23 August 2021
Abstract: Educators are in the “coal-front” of teaching and learning in all schools and they therefore are key in curriculum delivery. They are at the level that drives the direction of education in terms of quality production. They are however less considered in departmental strategic planning sessions, the fora that gives the strategic direction education has to take. This leaves them with hard work to teach and develop the learners but not aware of the strategic vision, mission and goals of the education sector. This is despite that they have to be capacitated with government priorities related to education in each period of an administration as part of them changing with the Medium term strategic Frame Works (MTSF). This qualitative study used data collected from secondary sources, interviews and observations and realised that in many ways educators are not guided by priorities of government and the department in line with the MTSF as they are mostly denied opportunity to be engaged in effective levels of strategic planning. This has impact on quality of education received by the learners in particular responding to the socio-economic needs in their country. It creates disparities between the hard work educators do in classes and the expected impact. The study recommend that the educators are prioritized in terms of becoming active participants of during strategic planning in their departments.
Abstract: Educators are in the “coal-front” of teaching and learning in all schools and they therefore are key in curriculum delivery. They are at the level that drives the direction of education in terms of quality production. They are however less considered in departmental strategic planning sessions, the fora that gives the strategic direction education ...
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Development and Democracy, Complementary or Contradictory: A Critical Reflection on Ethiopian Democratic Developmental State
Negera Gudeta Adula,
Tesfaye Gudeta Nigussie
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
50-54
Received:
9 June 2021
Accepted:
13 July 2021
Published:
4 September 2021
Abstract: Achieving economic growth and sustainable development remain the prior policy all nation states across the world. To achieve their sustainable development and economic growth goals, international communities has been fermenting and diagnosing various development models and paradigms. However, there is no one size and fit all development paradigms which obliged to be followed by nation states around the globe. This paper examines developmental state growth model and its nexus with democratization with reference to Ethiopian democratic developmental state growth model. The paper employed qualitative research approach as a research methodology. This paper is based on desk review. This paper argued that, even though EPRDF government claim the country as democratic developmental state which is unique to Asian authoritarian developmental state, the country portrayed as one of poor human right records and leading journalist jailer in the Africa despite the country has been witnessing the fastest economic growth for the last ten consecutive years. This paper also argued that Ethiopian developmental state and democratization process is contradictory since Ethiopian governments have been garnering the political legitimacy through development achievement not directly from public elections and the government has been using the economic achievement as an excuse for its democratic back sliding and democratic deconsolidation in Ethiopia.
Abstract: Achieving economic growth and sustainable development remain the prior policy all nation states across the world. To achieve their sustainable development and economic growth goals, international communities has been fermenting and diagnosing various development models and paradigms. However, there is no one size and fit all development paradigms w...
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Assessing the Role of Local Community Participation in Minimizing Corruption at Wolaita Sodo Town
Tamirat Dela,
Takele Teshome Somano,
Sintayehu Shirge Olato
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
55-65
Received:
7 October 2021
Accepted:
26 October 2021
Published:
5 November 2021
Abstract: The main purpose of the study was to assess the role of public participation in reducing corruption in the town of Wolaita Sodo. The researcher used a mixed study of quality and quantity methods. To address the purpose of research. Also, the researcher used a randomized testing procedure and a purpose that arises from the possibilities and opportunities of random sampling strategies. The researcher took 40 samples from the study area to gather the necessary information on the research topic. The findings of this study highlight various types of corruption perpetrated by local government officials such as bribery, discrimination, fraud and abuse of power and more. reducing corruption. The public did not attend various meetings at this meeting. Even if the public has asked to attend, they are not holding any kind of meeting at the request of the government. Based on field research data 100% of respondents and informants say that corruption enables the public to participate in politics and development programs that members of the public are unable to participate in political meetings and development programs due to the spread of corruption. People have contributed a lot to various projects such as roads, clean water supply and other infrastructure. The data collected was analyzed statistically and qualitatively, and as a means of analyzing data strategies such as times, percentages and the researcher attempted to present his or her conclusion. response-based recommendations and important data such as those used.
Abstract: The main purpose of the study was to assess the role of public participation in reducing corruption in the town of Wolaita Sodo. The researcher used a mixed study of quality and quantity methods. To address the purpose of research. Also, the researcher used a randomized testing procedure and a purpose that arises from the possibilities and opportun...
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The Challenges of Liberal Ideas, Revolution and Social Crisis: Correlates in Supporting the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
66-74
Received:
11 June 2021
Accepted:
14 October 2021
Published:
27 November 2021
Abstract: The slave trade was arguably one of the most unfortunate things that ever happened to black Africa and a dent on the moral image of Europe. For over five hundred years, this inglorious trade persisted and Africa served as the supply source and the Americas the last point of disembarkation. It profited Europe more than any other venture at the time, and impoverished Africa more than any other singler phenomenon. In the beginning of the 19th century, Britain found it expedient to abolish the trade in preference for other ‘nobler’ means of capitalism. Arguments necessitating abolition are rife; spanning both moral and economic flanks. However, there are other neglected angles that were persuasive and may have informed the early actions of the British Crown. One of the arguments appear to be the emerging wave of liberal ideas which of cause ignited the consciousness of the early Americans to the issue of equality and freedom. These ideas were potent in the revolutions in both America and France. The second was the imagined social crisis that the continuation of the trade would have engendered in Britain and her overseas possessions in America, and the spirit of rebellion often demonstrated by the slaves in the colonies. It is also plausible that the rivalry emerging in Europe at the time was another silent factor in facilitating abolition. The paper intends to critically examine these factors as necessitating the eventual abolition of the transatlantic slave trade beyond the orthodox arguments of morality and humanitarianism.
Abstract: The slave trade was arguably one of the most unfortunate things that ever happened to black Africa and a dent on the moral image of Europe. For over five hundred years, this inglorious trade persisted and Africa served as the supply source and the Americas the last point of disembarkation. It profited Europe more than any other venture at the time,...
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The Pink Trojan Horse: Inserting Gender Issues into Free Trade Agreements
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
75-91
Received:
6 August 2021
Accepted:
25 August 2021
Published:
3 December 2021
Abstract: In 2019 three transformative free trade agreements (FTAs) between Chile-Canada, Chile-Argentina and Canada-Israel were updated, including with them for the first time, individual chapters exclusively dedicated to gender. Due to the fact that these gender chapters are at most two years old, there has been little to no academic literature on their effectiveness and impact on gender equality. This paper aims to highlight possible successes and failures of the gender chapters through a review of human rights and labor chapters as examples of best practices that would demonstrate elements necessary to establish an effective gender chapter that would successfully tilt the scales towards gender equality. The research conducted highlighted potential areas of weakness in the gender chapters in terms of lack of specific indicators, lack of specific country analyses of the respective gender equality conditions and industries predominantly employing women in each country, and lack of effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) mechanisms and subsequent dispute resolution mechanisms. Overall, if policy makers and trade negotiators wish to create effective gender chapters in future agreements, or in subsequent amendments to the 2019 gender chapters, there must be specific attention to the gender sensitivity of trade and the identified areas of weakness.
Abstract: In 2019 three transformative free trade agreements (FTAs) between Chile-Canada, Chile-Argentina and Canada-Israel were updated, including with them for the first time, individual chapters exclusively dedicated to gender. Due to the fact that these gender chapters are at most two years old, there has been little to no academic literature on their ef...
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Persistent Challenges to Entirely Normalize Ethio-Eritrean Diplomatic Relations
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
92-103
Received:
11 November 2021
Accepted:
27 November 2021
Published:
11 December 2021
Abstract: After Eritrea became officially independent from Ethiopia on 24 May 1993, the diplomatic relationship between Ethiopia and Eritrea was mainly a friendly and gentle one. Nevertheless, such harmonized honey moon relation was hampered by the 1998-2000 war and followed by ‘no peace no war scenario’ until 2018 rapprochement. Despite, to cover this study the researcher employed qualitative methodology. In so doing, purposive and snow ball sampling method was employed with exploratory design to collect the data. However, the rapprochement changed the gear of threat to the countries relationship and determined the ‘no peace no war scenario’ to ‘yes peace no war scenario’ road map. Yet, there is challenge which emanated from internal and external factors to abort the re-established relation which come with relief and prospect to both Ethiopia and Eritrea as well region of the Horn in whole. If the rapprochement is not carefully handled, there may be dynamic radical shift from the previous ‘no peace no war frying pan to fire of another devastating war’ in the volatile region of Horn (in Amharic ‘keditu wode matu!’) That is why the whole process has to be approached carefully, with due conscientiousness to compensate for and repair the political, economic, diplomatic and social fault-lines that exist at overall ends.
Abstract: After Eritrea became officially independent from Ethiopia on 24 May 1993, the diplomatic relationship between Ethiopia and Eritrea was mainly a friendly and gentle one. Nevertheless, such harmonized honey moon relation was hampered by the 1998-2000 war and followed by ‘no peace no war scenario’ until 2018 rapprochement. Despite, to cover this study...
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