THE ROLE OF COOPERATIVE IN ENHANCING THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS WITH REFERENCE WEST SHEWA ZONE, ETHIOPIA

Author: Achalu Gelana Regassa (Ph.D. Candidate)

ABSTRACT

Cooperatives play crucial role in improving the welfare of members. The central objective of the study is that to assess the role of cooperative in improving the welfare of members and to come up with the appropriate results and recommendations. In the mean time this study lay road for future researchers to do more on the area under study. The researcher use both quantitative and qualitative.Questionnaires and interviews were employed to obtain the required inputs.

DECLARATION

This portfolio contains personal, private, and confidential information with supporting documents which have been earned, created, written and designed by Achalu Gelana Regassa (C/Dr.). None of the documents contained within shall be photocopied or duplicated without expressed permission.

I confirm that the intellectual content of all information in this portfolio is true, complete and the result of my own efforts and of no other person.

Achalu Gelana

Ambo, Ethiopia

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It gives me hot pleasure to extend my sincere gratitude for the help I received to complete this portfolio. In first instance, I thank my lord lot for his divine strength and my sincere thanks to my advisor, Ass.Prof. WarkinehA. Wadajo, for his whole hearted exertion in bringing this portfolio to reality with his unreserved assistance, suggestions and guidance. I also extend my sincere gratefulness to my partner Yeshimabet Birhanu for her unbroken support and encouragement and my children for creating conducive environments where I can focus on my study and work at a time. My Aba and lovely mam backing have also unforgettable as they have been my intrinsic elements all the time of my life.

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