Governance and Poverty Alleviation in Mogadishu-somalia

ABSTRACT The study assessed the governance and poverty alleviation in Mogadishu-Somalia. The objectives of the study were to; investigate the governance effectiveness in MogadishuSomalia, to assess the poverty condition of communities in Mogadishu-Somalia, to find out the relationship between governance and poverty alleviation in Mogadishu-Somalia. The research used a descriptive design, descriptive co relational, cross sectional and survey designs. It was descriptive in that it described the characteristics of respondents in collecting data from the study population totallingSOOOrespondents. Sampling technique was used to select the sample of 370 respondents from Mogadishu, Somalia, Ministry of interior affairs committee, other community members, Parliament committee, Local government committee were interviewed. Data was analysed using descriptive analysis option of SPSS, and was then presented using Pearson correlation. It was found out that; it was found out that; males greatly participated in the study as represented by 54.0% whereas 46.0% of the respondents were females; implying that district of Hodan,Waaberi,Warta Nabadde,XamarJabjab and XamarWeyne mostly employed males as they are known of their strong influence and ability in government programmes compared to females. It was also found out that the task of running schools in Somalia was initially taken up by community education committees established in 94% of the local schools respondents (strongly agreed=4.35) "Education is a proven fundamental base for human development, yet the PASDEP has not well defined the details on how a mobile comrnunity can have access to education at all levels. Still the Somali region has been trying to develop a more effective education sector in terms of access, quality, equity, efficiency and relevance to the pastoralist people of the region who haven't been extended education opportunities during the previous regimes". The study recommends that poverty reduction programs must target the poor, they must not do so benevolently. The poor need to be engaged in shaping their own destiny through well-informed participatory politics. Among the poor, women and children are quite often the most unheard, hence the most by-passed in policy making and policy formulation. This is particularly so in the area of health and education.

 TABLE Of CONTENTS 

DECLARATION ......................................................................................................... i 

APPROVAL ............................................................................................................. ii 

DEDICATION .......................................................................................................... iii 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................................. iv 

ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................. v 

TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................. vi 

CHAPTER ONE .................................................................................................. 1 

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 1 

1.0. Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 

1.1 Background of the Study ................................................................................... 1 

1.1.1 Historical Perspective ...................................................................................... 1 

1.1.2 Theoretical Perspective ................................................................................... 5 

1.1.3 Conceptual perspective ................................................................................... 6 

1.1.4 Contextual Perspective .................................................................................... 8 

1.2 The Statement of the Problem ............................................................................ 9 

1.3 Purpose of the study ....................................................................................... 10 

1.4. Objectives of the study ................................................................................... 10 

1.4.1 Research Questions ...................................................................................... 10 

1.5 Null Hypothesis of the study ............................................................................. 11 

1. 6 Scope of the Study .......................................................................................... 11 

1.6.1 Geographical Scope ...................................................................................... 11 

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1.6.2 Content scope .............................................................................................. 11 

1.6.3 Time scope .................................................................................................. 11 

1. 7 Significance of the study .................................................................................. 12 

CHAPTER TWO ............................................................................................... 14 

liTERATURE REVIEW ....................... ~ ............................................................ 14 

2.0. Introduction ................................................................................................... 14 

2.1 Theoretical perspective .................................................................................... 14 

2.1.1. In theory: how good governance is supposed to work .................................... 14 

2.1.2 Limited corruption: ....................................................................................... 15 

2.1.3 Sensible economic pursuits: .......................................................................... 16 

2.3 The governance effectiveness .......................................................................... 14 

2.4The poverty condition of communities ................................................................ 21 

2.5 Relationship between governance and poverty alleviation ................................... 23 

2.6 Research gap .................................................................................................. 29 

CHAPTER THREE ..............................................•...........•................................. 32 

METHODOlOGY ............................................................................................. 32 

3.0 Introduction .................................................................................................... 32 

3.1 Research design .............................................................................................. 32 

3.2 Area and Population of Study ........................................................................... 32 

3.3 Sampling Selection and Size ............................................................................. 32 

3.3.1 Sample Size ................................................................................................. 33 

3.4 Procedure for data collection ............................................................................ 34 

3.5 Research Instruments ...................................................................................... 34 

3.6 Validity and Reliability ...................................................................................... 35 

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3.7 Structured Questionnaires ................................................................................ 35 

3.8 Interview Guide .............................................................................................. 36 

3.9 Methods of Data Collection .............................................................................. 36 

3.9.1 In-Depth Interviews ..................................................................................... 36 

3.9.2 Observation ................................................................................................. 36 

3.10 Data analysis ................................................................................................. 36 

3.11. Ethical considerations ................................................................................... 37 

3.12. Limitations of the study ............................................................................... 38 

CHAPTER FOUR .............................................................................................. 39 

PRESENTATION, ANAlYSIS AND INTERPRETATION Of RESULTS ................. 39 

4.0 Introduction .................................................................................................... 39 

4.1 Background Characteristics of the respondents .................................................. 39 

4.2.1 Governance effectiveness in alleviating poverty ............................................... 43 

4.3.1 The poverty condition of communities ............................................................ 47 

CHAPTER FIVE ................................................................................................ 51 

SUMMARY Of KEY fiNDINGS, CONCLUSION ANDRECOMMENDATIONS ...... 51 

5.1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 51 

5.2 Discussion of findings ..................................................................................... 51 

5.3 Conclusion ...................................................................................................... 54 

5.4 Recommendation ............................................................................................ 55 

REFERENCES ........................................................................................................ 59 

APPENDIX I: SELF-ADMINISTERED QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE RESPONDENTS IN, 

Mogadishu-somalia ............................................................................................... 62 

APPENDIX II: AN INTERVIEW FOR THE KEY RESPONDENTS IN, Mogadishu-somalia .. 66 

APPENDIX 111: Appendix A: Budget Estimate ......................................................... 67 

APPENDIX 1 V: TIME FRAME .................................................................................. 67 

APPENDIX V: SAMPLE SIZE(S) REQUIRED FOR THE GIVEN POPULATION SIZES (N) .. 69