Worancha ወራንቻ

Every morning I wake up to sound of Amaric music, goats, and the conversations of the hotel staff on the floors below mine.  I make my way down for breakfast where I have gotten in the habit of treating myself with freshly squeezed mango juice every morning.  Mangos surely don’t taste like this in the United States.  Shortly after, I am picked up via motorcycle by my colleague Desta, who is the program facilitator for the Girl Power Education Project.  We discuss the after work happenings in between the nearly constant waves and hellos Desta says during our ride.  Somehow he seems to know about half of the people in Hawassa. When we arrive at the CISO office I begin with my work. I am creating a new website for CISO and am in the process of putting the final touches on it.  If you want to learn more details about CISO’s work, please take a peek!  I also have been working on networking with other donor and partner organizations.  CISO is working to expand its projects to other kebel

The book dresses the status of female instructor's involvement in managerial positions of the colleges under study. It investigates the magnitude of the prevailing gender gap in the leadership sphere of the studied colleges. Moreover the study tried to uncover the anticipated factors behind the rear or null representation of women in the leadership arena of the studied colleges. The patriarchal nature of the society, rigid gender division of labor among the community, women's failure to fulfill the required academic qualifications and women's lack of confidence and interest to assume leadership and managerial positions proved as the main factors for the invisibility of women in the leadership scenario. The research also deals with the importance of women's visibility in leadership and it has discovered that it is important to create gender friendly environment in the colleges and to discuss gender issues in a mainstreaming mode as such issues usually are less discuss

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EDITORIAL For a poor country like Ethiopia, which has been bogged down in the swamps of a command economy for nearly two decades, economic growth has a strong reason to exist. Yet, whether it brings a blessing or a curse depends on the social and political implications that comes along with it. Every year, the government promises to realise double digit economic growth. For a country with 29pc of the population living under poverty line - one dollar a day - this may seem like a target to be commended. Nonetheless, the distributional aspect of economic growth is often overlooked. This entails how much of the benefit from economic growth is going to the rich and the poor, respectively. It also refers to how much of the cost of economic growth the rich and the poor, respectively, shall bear. At face value, this calls for the answering of two critical questions. Should we continue in the current "model of growth", which has allowed some to drive a hammer, while a signi

Opposition: Ethiopia police block rally, beat some The Associated Press Monday, Sept. 2, 2013 | 12:07 a.m. An opposition leader in Ethiopia says police have prevented his group from staging a rally to demand the release of jailed activists. Yilkal Getnet, who heads the opposition Blue party, said Sunday that police raided their headquarters in the capital, Addis Ababa, on Saturday night and beat up some party members. He said police also seized banners and equipment that would have been used during a street protest on Sunday. Yilkal says the rally was meant to highlight the continued detention of some journalists and Muslim activists. Ethiopia has charged at least 28 Muslims activists with terrorism. But those activists say they have been unfairly targeted by the government, which they accuse of harassment. A spokesman for Ethiopian police was not immediately available for comment. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/sep/02/af-ethiopia-protest/