The issue of 'solid waste' which refers to all material thrown out after consumption or productionrnNow a day becomes a great concern of all nations. In developing countries like Ethiopia problemrnof solid waste is considered to be among the most serious environmental problem. Majority ofrnsol id wastes in these countries dumped in open air without proper management of the wastes. InrnAddis, solid waste problem has received many attentions by government and non governmentrnorganization. Hence, many organizations par1icipate in solid waste management particularly inrnclean and green Addis Ababa program. Even if many parties participate to clean the city andrnprotect the environment, still solid waste is a crucial problem in Addis. Many organizations andrnmajority of households have not had a proper understanding about the impacts of solid wastes onrnthe environment, economy and community health. In the city and in the case study area, thernproblem of so lid wastes emanates from the difficulty to find appropriate places for disposal andrnmajority of households do not know the negative outcomes of solid wastes.rnThis study propose improved so lid waste management program to alleviate the problem of solidrnwaste in case study area (YEKA). In this program sampled households asked to state theirrnwillingness for the proposed program. In study contingent valuation method (CVM) is used tornelicit household willingness to pay which the method has chosen by environmental economists tornvalue environmental goods. CVM is the most applied valuation method in recent years, and it hasrnbeen developed mainly in the context of environmental valuation over the last 30 years. It isrntherefore of great interest to study it more carefully. With CVM selected households werernasked to accept for a propose change in so lid waste management program.rnProbity and To bit models are used to estimate household willingness to pay and to predict therncoefficients of explanatory variables. Based on the study finding the mean house hold willingnessrnto pay is birr 9.49 (conditional mean) per month birr 113.88 per year. Household willingness tornpay for the provision of improved sol id waste management influenced by basic socio economicrnvariables particularly family size, household income, and quantity of solid waste, number ofrnchildren, experience, and knowledge of household on solid waste management .Management ofrncity administration should identify these socio economic variables to minimize the problems.rnThese variables highly important for policy and instrument to control this wide spread problem ofrnsolid waste.