An Assessment Of Good Governance Practices Towards Sustainable Land Management Program In Ambo District Of Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Abstract

ustainable land management practice (SLMP) has emerged as an issue of major international concern; The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) recognizes that land degradation is a major economic growth constraining factor not only as a disorder to accelerate and as sustainable socioeconomic development. The primary aim of this study was to assess on An Assessment of Good Governance Practices Towards Sustainable Land Management Program; The study further focused on to investigate sustainable land management practices by rural farming households in the study area; To analyze governance of sustainable land management practices; To examine the challenges and explore the existing opportunities of sustainable land management practices. In order to carry out this study, both quantitative and qualitative methods employed. Instruments like semi-structured questionnaire, FGD, Key informant interview and observation employed. To this end, 156 urban households selected through simple random sampling technique. Thus, the data obtained from the respondents analyzed through SPSS version 21th and descriptive statistics (mean standard deviation, frequencies, and percentage). In addition, qualitative data collected and analyzed None-parametric tests of significance (chi-square test of independence) used depending of variables. Towards good governance of sustainable land management was not wall confirmed. A grand mean of 2.48 indicates the overall poor level of performance of the current good governance of sustainable land use management practice in Ambo district; According to this analysis, awareness creation activities were been effectively were committed to support the program implementation processes. From good governance principles more proportional or moderately performance on Education, Participation and Accountability should been current governance to achieve sustainable land management practices should give attention raising effective technology usage system of humanity on role of good government in sustainable land management practices. On women participation involvements in the project processes was moderately active in Ambo district. Oromia, regional state having a water shade management plan in all over rural area this may a chance to change for our farmer of rural area to make a total land management plan. To promote successful effective community participation, wisdom of ownership over advantage created, and well-organized application technologies in a water shad , effective integration of stack holder on monitoring and evaluation should applied to overcome the challenge of sustainable land use management practice