The OAU charter served as a road map for the efforts of liberating African States from colonialism, apartheid and racism. This regional organization is not only deterred by liberating member states, but also promoting democracy and democratic institutions in Africa. To enhance the democratization...
Urban poverty is a widely and deep-rooted problem in both large and small cities of Ethiopian urban areas. Focus on people living below the poverty line, and livelihood support aims to diversify and improve household level income in the long run considered as core principles for reducing...
Federal-states intergovernmental relations have direct impact on the operation of the federal system and very important in understanding the operational part of a federal system since it has the tendency to alter or entirely change the constitutional division of power. This is so, because...
Project procurement management is among the ten knowledge areas that a project manager mustrnbe familiar with for a successful implementation of a project work. Depending upon the specificrntype of project being managed, over 50 percent of the total project cost can be attributed to...
The TRIPS agreement provides obligatory substantive minimum standards and enforcementrnprocedures and remedies .Hence, members and acceding sates are required to make theirrnintellectual property legislations compatible with the TRIPS minimum standard of protection.rnFocusing on patent, this paper...
The objective of this study was to assess the current Iron Triangle Project ManagementrnPractices and Challenges of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) in relation tornInformation Technology Projects. In this work, attempts were done to examine andrncompare CBE’s practice with the available...
The study sought to identify and assess the quality of organizational change project practices asrnwell as the critical success factors for organizational change project implementation in cityrngovernment of Addis Ababa organization and restructure project office. The study adopted arndescriptive...
The right to water is one of the fundamental human rights and it is a road map for the realization of other human rights. It is a recently evolved area of human rights. No international bill of human rights that has explicitly recognized the right to water. The non-explicit recognition of the human...
The LRT of Addis Ababa is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa. The most part of it is on the surface of the ground and fenced that cuts of main crossings that impede mobility in both pedestrian and car drivers. The impact of LRT station on commercial property value is studied in different...
Ethiopia has applied for membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO) andrnits accession process is currently in progress. Despite this, the country is referringrnsome service sectors, like the telecom, as untouchable and, as a result, theirrnliberalization seems improbable. This dissertation...
Whenever the performance of a project falls outside nominal values, it is judged to be a project in distress and likely to fail unless some intervention strategy brings it back under control. The objective of this study was to identify the root causes of project distress, the effects of distress,...
This thesis examines school feeding program in Addis Ababa and it explores whether it contributes to the promotion and realization of the right to food in Ethiopia. In doing so, the study explores the experiences of some selected schools’ feeding programs in Addis Ababa. The writer...
Considerable number of treaties and other rules of international water law envisages riparian states’ obligation on the use of international watercourse. One of such obligation is the riparian duty to inform on planned measures. However, there are uncertainties about the essence and status...
In Ethiopia preventing environmental degradation especially forest degradation and alleviating poverty are the twin goals of sustainable development. That is why decentralized forest management taken as strategy to tackle the challenge of preventing the degradation of forest resources while...
Inter ethnic conflict is one of the serious challenge in any multi ethnic federations like Ethiopia.rnConflicts have a negative effect on socio-economic and political life of a community. Hence, thernconflict between Hadiya-Halaba is a typical example. This study deals with the inter-...
Though optical remote sensing has various importance for land-cover mapping and monitoring, it is very difficult to assess and monitor rice agriculture over large areas due to cloud cover on the images and the nature of rice agriculture. Therefore, in this study, Sentinel 1 RADAR and Sentinel 2...
Assessment of Recent Lava Flows and Land Surface Temperature Using Geospatial Tools at Erta ‘Ale Volcanic Range Afar Rift, Ethiopia. rnTekalign Gebreyesus, MSc. Thesis rnAddis Ababa University, May 2018 rnVolcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging. Volcano...
Despite years of impunity in Africa, the 1990s saw the perpetrators of some of the atrocities inrnthe continent face trials. However, all these efforts are varied. Some countries went throughrnprosecuting perpetrators of crimes against humanity and genocide through their domesticrncourts, while...
The legal protection for consumers from abuse by market actors has passed several stages of development. The earliest protection was based on laws of contract and extra contractual liability. But these private law mechanisms have not been adequate enough in protecting consumers’ interests....
Urbanization, industrialization and agricultural development practices are the main causes for the environmental degradation of surface waters including rivers. The highly impacted Akaki River, the subject of the present study, is being used for irrigation, watering livestock, sanitation and other...