Rural Households’ Effort In Poverty Alleviation And Challenges In Elfeta District, West Shoa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Abstract

The study was aimed at investigating "Rural Households’ Effort In Poverty Alleviation And Challenges In Elfeta District, West Shoa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia . To achieve this objective, the researcher collected the primary data for this study from 140 households, based on the multistage sampling technique used to identify representative respondents. Both qualitative and quantitative research approaches were used. Descriptive and cross sectional research were also used, whereas questionnaires, interviews, and focus group discussions were used as instruments of data collection. A multi-linear regression model was used to analyze the factors that affect households’ efforts in poverty alleviation. The multi-linear model result reveals that explanatory variables, age of the household head, sex of the household head, education of the household head, access to market information, use of formal credit and number of oxen owned significantly and positively affected households’ efforts in poverty alleviation, whereas, the result of the coefficient variable shows that lack of owning land, affects households’ efforts in poverty alleviation negatively and statistically significantly. Therefore, it has been observed that the dimensions and causes of poverty are vast and complex. Poverty affects people of different characteristics in different ways, because they play different roles, have different needs, and face different challenges includes lack of different business activities Poor weather condition, followed by Poor neighborhoods, low education and unemployment. It is most likely that communities or households in extreme poverty differ from the average and non-poor communities/households in several distinct ways, such as in accessibility of social services, demographic characteristics, and other socio-economic conditions, and in order to improve the households’ efforts in poverty alleviation, they should focus on encouraging the facilitation of infrastructure (roads), developing the skills farmers have through increasing the education level of household heads, increasing female participation, strengthening the existing livestock providing improved health services are some recommendation for the concerning body.