Assessment of Gender Mainstreaming in some selected bureaus of DireDawa city Administration

The study was designed to explore Gender mainstreaming and its various implementation values within governmental public service sectoral bureaus in Dire Dawa Ethiopia. Particularly, the study targeted on two sectoral bureaus: Bureau of Education and Women Affairs Office. Gender mainstreaming has always remained a contested issue in the complex socio demographic and cultural aspect in society of developing countries. Gender mainstreaming is determined by educational level, gender mainstreaming awareness, organizational ethics and policy & procedures. Gender mainstreaming was endorsed as a global strategy for promoting gender equality in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995. Although the government of Ethiopia has taken measures to mainstream gender in government institutions, such mainstreaming is little investigated in the workplaces of public service bureaus. Therefore, studying on researches on assessment of Gender mainstreaming was vital in public service bureaus in Dire Dawa city administration Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. The necessary data were gathered using simple random sampling and the office head through a structured questionnaire adapt from previous standard questionnaire. Descriptive and Quantitative Research Method research design was used for the study. A total of 302 respondents from Public Service Bureaus included in the study's sample. For quantitative surveys, questionnaires were used to collect data, and qualitative surveys uses observation. Following collection, the data examined with the aid of tables and figures. The study concluded that sex proportions in organizational structures of public service bureaus still revealed the existence of a sex imbalance in terms of staffing levels and the composition of leader's positions. The study advised that the Dire Dawa city administration closely monitor, cooperate with, remind, and encourage public service bureaus to implement gender mainstreaming through yearly meetings with public service bureau representatives and through public-private partnerships.