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Item WOMEN PARTICIPATION AND DECISION MAKING IN LEADERSHIP: IN SELECTED PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HADIYA ZONE(HAWASSA UNIVERSTY, 2019-04) GENET MULUGETA SHIFERAWThis study was conducted in Hadiya zone with the main objective of assessing women’s participation and decision making in leadership in selected public institutions of Hadiya Zone. Furthermore, the study assess the status of women participation and decision making in leadership, identify challenges and opportunities of women participation in decision making and leadership and explored women empowerment strategies and mechanisms in public institutions to enhance their participation in decision making and leadership. The study employed a descriptive survey method combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Data were collected by identifying 182 sample respondents through multistage stratified sampling procedures. In qualitative analysis key informants as well as focus group discussants were purposively selected. The result of the study revealed that women are underrepresented in leadership positions in which they accounted only one third of leadership positions. Major factors that hamper women participation in leadership and decision making were personal, social and institutional factors namely lack of recommendation, lack of delegation, socio- cultural factors, lack of confidence and male dominancy. Despite these factors that affect women participation in leadership and decision making there were opportunities that enhanced participation and decision making of women in leadership include modernization, increasing of women involvement in education, increasing the role media and communication and training and capacity building. Furthermore, working on recruitment strategy, labor division for the workers, representing women in committee activities, training and capacity building, senior level leaders empower other women, invest time and energy in helping women's weakness and fulfill the need and concern of women were strategies and mechanisms to ensure women participation and decision making in leadership. Finally, arranging and developing training to upgrade women leaders’ capabilities, recognition and acknowledgement to women leaders at all levels, arranging nationwide awareness raising programs and women sensitization programs were imperative to empower women participation and decision making in leadership in public institutions in Hadiya zone.Item ASSESSING OF CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF WOMEN MIGRATION FROM HALABA ZONE OF CENTRAL ETHIOPIA REGIONAL STATE TO THE MIDDLE EAST(2023-10) NATHANAEL KUMA KEBEDEhis study was about the women labor migration from Halaba Zone of CERS to the Middle East. It assessed the causes and consequences of women migration from Halaba Zone to the Middle East. It looked at the various motivations that brought a migrant woman in to decisions of migration to the Middle East. The thesis also targeted to consider into the discrepancies between the expectations of the domestic workers and the reality that they faced in the country of destinations. In this study, quite a number of theories were used to explain the factors and features of migration augmented with the primary data outcomes. The study fully employed qualitative methods of research by taking snowball and expert sampling methods to obtain the research participants. Regarding the research instruments, the researcher employed semi-structured in-depth interview tool to collect data. Likewise, six case studies were narratively presented for discussion in the fourth chapter. The thesis was also produced based on the production of knowledge from the interviewees and the researcher through semi-structured in-depth interviews, case study and focus group discussion supported by secondary data. In its outcome, the study revealed that the migrants from Halaba Zone both that are planning and returnees were not satisfied with their individual or household income. For which reason, economic demands were found to be the basic pushing factors for their decisions; whereas destination countries’ open gates and demands besides enhanced payment in the destination was the major pulling factor. The overall backgrounds of the migrants together with external promoters were also found to constitute the motivations for migration. On the other hand, the expectations of the returnee migrants before their departure from the study site and the realities that they faced in the country of destination were also found to be quite unlike. Besides, language and cultural barriers were depicted as hurdle as incapacitating the interactions of the migrant women with their employers. Of which outcome, most of the domestic workers experienced maladjustment, hitch, and inconveniences. To address women labor migration from Halaba Zone to the Middle East, the study recommends establishing reliable channels for information sharing, conducting awareness campaigns, providing financial support and business skills training, empowering women with destination-specific skills and cultural knowledge, promoting understanding of social norms and language in destination countries, and advocating for bilateral agreements to protect migrant worker rights.