Title Page
ABSTRACT
LISTS OF ACRONOMY
Contents
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 16
1.1. General Back ground of the study 16
1.2. Statement of problem 19
1.3. Research Objective 21
CHAPTER II. LITRATURE REVIEW 22
2.1. Definition of Key Terminologies and Concepts 22
2.1.1. Community participation 22
2.1.2. Sustainability 23
2.2. Definition and Concept of Sustainable Forest Management 24
2.3. Approaches and Significance of community Participation in Sustainable Forest Management 26
2.4. Determining Factors of Common Resource Management 29
2.4.1. Institutional and Local Knowledge 30
2.4.2. Level of education of forest adjacent communities 31
2.4.3. Distance of the home of the farmers from the forest 32
2.4.4. Economic value of forest/ benefit derived from forest 32
2.4.5. Training and awareness 33
2.4.6. Other Inhibiting factors of people's participation in common resources 34
CHAPTER III. RESEARCH METHEDOLOGY 36
3.1. Description of the study area 36
3.1.1. Amhara National Regional State (ANRS) 36
3.3. Sampling Design and data collection 41
3.4. Methods of Data analysis 45
3.4.1. Descriptive analysis 45
3.4.2. Statistical analysis 46
3.4.3. Definitions of variables and working hypothesis 48
CHAPTER IV. RESULT AND DISCUSSION 55
4.1. Results of Descriptive Statistics Analysis 56
4.1.1. General characteristics of the respondent's participated in the survey 56
4.2.2. Forest users' perception about community participation 66
4.2.3. Institutional situation of the study area 66
4.2.4. Ecological and economic benefit of the forest users' from forest 70
4.3. Factors affecting the participation of the forest user's in the study area 72
CHAPTER V. CONCLUSSION AND RECOMENDATIOS 79
5.1. SUMMERY AND CONCLUSSION 79
5.2. RECOMENDATIOS 82
REFERENCES 86
APENDEX 90
QUESTIONSFORTHEVILLAGEFOCUSGROUPDISCUSSION 99
CHECKLISTFORTHEFOCUSEDGROUP 101
요약 103
Table 1. Population data and sample size of the study sites 43
Table 2. Summary of variables included in the model 54
Table 3.Summaryof descriptive statistics for continuous variables by level of... 59
Table 4. Result of the forest user's participation in planning phase 61
Table 5. Level of participation of the household in the implementation... 63
Table 6. Level of participation of the households at monitoring phase 64
Table 7. Summary of Overall average Participation 65
Table 8. Summary of descriptive statistics for discrete variables by level of... 69
Table 9. Comparison of benefit between the study sites 71
Table 10. Results of logistic regression model 77
Figure 1. Map of Oromo Nationality Administration on the map of ANRS 38
Figure 2. Map of DawaChafa District and Study Sites 40
Figure 3. A schematic diagram showing the relationship between variables 41