ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTS OF RURAL POVERTY AT HOUSEHOLD LEVEL:-A CASE OF SELECTED KEBLES IN DARAMALO WOREDA, GAMO ZONE OF SNNPRS, ETHIOPIA

Abstract

This study was carry out at Daramalo Woreda in Southern Nation Nationalities and People’s Regional State in Gamo zone with the main objectives of assessing the effects of rural poverty at household level a case of selected kebles of rural households and answered the three basic questions (to what extent rural poverty prevail at household level in daramalo woreda, what are the causes of rural poverty in the study area and what are the consequences of rural poverty on household levels in the study area,). The study employed by explanatory research design and mixed method (quantitative and qualitative). The quantitative approach employed cross-sectional household survey and collected data from 301 sample households. The study applied mainly frequency and percentile to compute assessment of rural poverty in the study area and SPSS software version twenty used to analyze statistical data, which collected by questionnaire from 301 respondents selected by random sampling technique and followed by narration for qualitative data through depth-interview, key-informant interview, focus group discussion and field observation from purposively selected informants. To prevail poverty at household level in the study area found that from total respondents, 7(2.3%) of the respondents replied not deprived and 294(97.3%) of the respondents responded rural households considered as deprived. The results included of five variables were found to be statistical impact of poverty. These factors include educational status of household head, cultivation land size per household, ox ownership, cultivation land type, and proper utilization of improved agricultural inputs at recommended rate. Finally the study recommended that applying establishing strong and stable leadership and governance system, strengthening capacity building and training services, proper utilization of improved or scientific agricultural inputs and technologies, integrated rural resettlement program, and improving the provision of saving and credit service system, so as to eliminate rural poverty in the study area.