CONTEXT AND SUCCESS OF EDUCATIONAL DECENTRALIZATION AND ITS NATURE

This study is aimed at studying context and success of Education decentralization in general and its practices in Dire Dawa city Administration Education bureau. Therefore, the study assesses context (areas) and extent of education decentralization of General Education Package, identifies successes and challenges faced with the implementation process. Hence, duties and responsibilities of MOE, REOs, ZEOs, WEO, Kebele and school and the community were examined towards policy directions and compared to their degree of achievements.The study also tried to see the degree of practices of Education Decentralization in Dire Dawa City Administrative context, for it has no Zonal and Wereda administration structure. It is imperative to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of Regional, Kebele/Cluster level performance, their manpower representation and required skills, their management and leadership potential, line of communication, clarity of mandates, and so on towards the actual sense of decentralization and policy implications. There are the only two level administrative structures in the city followed by school administration.