Abstract:
This study was conducted in Gondar city particularly Fasil sub-city. The general objective of the
study is to assess community participation for poverty alleviation in Gondar town Fasil-sub city,
North West Ethiopia. This study was used both mixed method research approach. The data was
collected from sample size of 133 community participants by purposive sampling technique and
asked by a questionnaire, FGD and interview. Both primary and secondary data was collected
and investigated in detail. The collected data was processed and analyzed using SPSS version 20.
The analyzed data was interpreted in the form of percent, table, standard deviation, charts and
chi-square discussed. From the total sample respondents, 66.2 percent were males’ population
and the remaining 33.8 were females, with majority of them married (77.4%) had average family
size 4.6 and literate (94%). Communities in the study area participated in different types in
different degrees, such as participation by resource, planning, in decision making,
implementation, benefit sharing, monitoring and evaluation, by consultation and in development
program. The major critical issues influencing the participation of community to alleviate
poverty were non-participatory planning methods, absence of representative community groups
in the decision-making process, lack of access of credit loan and lack of access of market.
Structural factors, lack of resources and absence of strong community organizations also the
other significance factors to be considered as the sample respondents agreed upon. Therefore, the
communities should be fully participating in the planning process, the government should be
subsidized for unemployed community, solve structural problems by monitoring and evaluation
and provide well access of credit loan.
