The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Sustainable Development, In the case of Dire Dawa City Administration.

This thesis was conducted examine the role of civil society organizations on sustainable development in the case of Dire Dawa. The aim of this study was to analyze the purpose of civil society organizations and examine their role and identify facing constraint to perform their role on sustainable development. The research design was descriptive research type and in identification and selection sample of the study, strata or stratified sampling and judgmental sampling technique were applied. Data were collected from both primary and secondary source of data through questionnaire, interview, document analysis and observation. The research was used frequency, percentage and table to analysis quantitative data and narrative or descriptive analysis to qualitative data. The finding of the study were provides comprehensive assessment about the purpose and objective, the contribution and constraints of civil society organizations. The finding it shows that the purpose or objective and contributions of civil society organizations provide better care and support for children, target group and beneficiaries, strive of inclusive social atmosphere for disadvantageous, improve livelihood of target communities, improve health and nutrition and reproductive health, protected communicable disease, in general ensured integrated social and economic development as well as environmental protection and natural resource management and sanitation by empowering the communities for public participation, providing materials, awareness creation and capacity building, care and support and media and clinic. Civil society organizations were faced different constraints, such as, sustainability of fund, dependency of people mentality, tight project guide line and government rule and regulations. The research recommended to local and national government solve their problem related to project sustainability and commitment, recommended to community cooperation with CSOs to their benefit