The Struggies And Challenges Of Konso Woreda

Every nation strives after development to improve the lives of its citizens. However, bringing about development is a complex phenomenon that requires prudent policies, strategies and active involvement of diverse actors. Particularly in developing countries, development programs are challenged by myriad multifaceted and interdependent factors. Poverty is one of these factors which stalled the ability and capacity of developing countries to improve the lives of their citizens. And so, the greater parts of developing countries mainly in Africa have developed Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers in an attempt to fighting poverty. Besides in September 2000, 189 member countries of United Nations adopted eight millennium development goals, committing …show more content…
The Woreda is populated by the hard-working but hard up community of Konso. The Konso people are well known for their assiduous, convoluted social organizations, and distinctive agricultural system. They are talented with marvelous knowledge and skills of soil and water conservation. These characteristics enabled the people to manage to survive in the pitiless environment by making optimal use of inauspicious landscape and climatic conditions in ingenious way. This creative and noble work culture qualified Konso people in 1995 for UN prize among the best fifty communities all over the globe and surprisingly, they won the award as it deserved them (KDA, …show more content…
Different governmental and non-governmental organizations have been implementing these policies and strategies to trim down the deep rooted problems of the Konso community. Nevertheless, except in few areas of the woreda, majority of the Konso community is caught up in the vicious circle of poverty. Alike strategies adopted at national and regional government levels, local government and non-governmental organizations (at local, regional, and national) operating in Konso woreda, have failed to include social capital to their strategies and plans to fighting poverty. These conditions have ignited my curiosity to raise a lot of questions (Given all these efforts from governmental and non – governmental organizations, why industrious community of Konso remained poor? (What is missing?) What has been happening to poverty due to social capital among Konso community? Which type(s) or form(s) of social capital is (are) effective in alleviating or aggravating poverty? What disturbs what (is social capital troubling poverty or vice versa)? which require scientific/systematic