Assessing Factor Affecting The Adoption Of Rain Water Harvesting Practice In Chamuk Kebele Moyalle Woreda Somali Regional State Of Ethiopia

This study was conducted with the objectives of identifying the technical and institutionalrnfactors that affect the adoption of RWHT and to explore practices and challenges of RWHT inrnthe study area. To that effect, household survey conducted on 108 households, 12 focus grouprnand 4 key informants. In addition, secondary data were used elicit the primary data. The studyrnarea was selected through a multi-stage purposive sampling technique while simple randomrnmethod employed for household survey. The study employed both qualitative and quantitativernmethods, where triangulation method was used for qualitative whereas descriptive statisticsrnanalysis was used for quantitative data analysis. The result from descriptive analysis indicatedrnthat age household heads, labor and market accessibility have shown significant and negativerneffect to adoption of RWHT whereas adopting of RWHT have shown significant and positivernrole for food security.rnThe interaction effect between education status and income category indicated that literates were better than illiterates’ households in the level of RWHT adoption and implementation.rnFurthermore, the result from the qualitative data indicated that the overall trend of RWHTrnadoption in the study area was found to be increase from time to time. However, a recentrndevelopment around Chamuk district shows an increase in the self-initiated adopters’. The finding of the study further revealed the challenges for the adoption of RWHT to berninstitutional, technological and adopter’s financial limitation. Thus, policy programming should be based on the rudimentary of the precise determinants of food security status and alleviation of challenges for the adoption of RWHT

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