This thesis is aimed at assessing recommendation enforcement practice of EHRC and challengesrnthat the Commission has faced in its endeavor to ensure implementation of its recommendations.rnIt seeks to discover what enforcement tools the Commission employed to enforce itsrnrecommendations, how these tools are effective to ensure compliance with recommendations andrnto provide effective remedies for victims of human rights violations and what challengesrnhindered adequate enforcement of its recommendations. To achieve this purpose qualitativernresearch approach was employed and both primary and secondary data sources were used. Thernprimary data include data from interviews, FGD, reviews of annual reports of the Commissionrnand investigation files and recommendations and reports of the Commissions submitted to HOPRrnon recommendation enforcement challenges. It also include data from analysis of relevantrnprovisions of establishing laws of EHRC,EIO, some NHRIs of other countries, Investigationsrnand Mediation Directives of EHRC, FDRE Constitution, PPs, and federal supreme courtrncassation division decision, Proclamation No.454/2005. The secondary data used in the studyrninclude reviews of relevant books, thesis and other documents related to the research problem.rnThe thesis has finally found that despite its failure to exercise its formal enforcement power, thernCommission has employed different non-confrontational enforcement tools to ensurernimplementation of its recommendations. These include reporting to the HOPR, roundtablerndiscussions, and field missions, summoning respondents to the office of the Commission andrnwarning letter. These enforcement tools are proved ineffective to ensure compliance withrnrecommendations when the cooperation of respondents is lacking. As a result, majority of thernrecommendations were left unenforced. The main challenges that hinder adequate enforcementrnof recommendations were resistance by respondents on different grounds such as citing legalrnbases for their actions, failures of the Commission to exercise its formal enforcement powerrnwhich is a direct consequence of its failure to fulfill the necessary preconditions to use suchrnpower and legal gaps pertaining to the Commissionâ€™s enforcement power. As result of thesernfindings, the thesis recommends that the Commission should conduct exhaustive investigationrnand forward persuasive and strong recommendations; it should commence the use of its formalrnenforcement power upon fulfilling necessary preconditions and pending that, it should make arnproposal for the amendment of its proclamation to empower it to take appropriate legal actionrnwhich directly aimed at enforcing its non-complied recommendations.