Leadership Practices towards Attaining Integrated Functional Adult Education in Bale Zone Ginnir District

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Figure 1: National Adult Education board and technical committee structure 12

Leadership Practices to words Attaining Integrated Functional Adult Education in Bale Zone Ginnir Woreda ABERA GAREDEW ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate Leadership Practices towards Attaining Integrated Functional Adult Education in Bale Zone Ginnir District.For this study ,descriptive research design was employed;Both qualitative and quantitative data were gathered through questionnaire, interview and document analysis. Data were gathered from 6 cluster resource center, which is 32 integrated functional adult literacy center directors, 68 integrated functional adult literacy facilitators, 6 educational experts and 6 cluster resource center supervisors from the selected 6 integrated functional Adult Literacy centers. The six integrated functional adult education centers were selected by using simple random sampipling and availible sampling. Two separate set of questionnaires were prepared to be completed by integrated functional adult literacy facilitators and school principals. The interview was employed to the educational experts cluster resources center supervisors.The findings from data analysis showed that some of the integeated functional adult literacy program was affected by lack of budget to implement and develop the program successfully, lack of practical stakeholder’s participations and involvement in the integrated functional adult literacy program, low attention given to the program in providing supervision and support, assignment of untrained facilitators, unavailability of learning materials and poor understanding about integrated functional adultl Literacy program. Therefore, to alleviate these problems, allocation of necessary budget and mobilization of resources through different machanism such as fund raising from communities and government bodies,to encouraging integrated functional adult literacy stalkholders participation building their capacity.Training of facilitators, improving the amount of their payments and solving their problems, developing relevant integrated functional adult literacy curriculum, constructing IFAL centers equipping with the necessary educational materials and facilities, developing learners attitudes and interest towards the program were suggested.