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Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Semela, T. & Cochrane (2025) More and More Children Are Missing From Classrooms: How Environmental Emergencies and Political Instability Are Impacting Education in Ethiopia. https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2025.2528698
  2. Mandefro, E., Semela, T. & Bezabih (2025) Unravelling the Leadership Role of Higher Education Leaders in Quality Imperatives: Implications for Quality Culture Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.70072
  3. Yona, Y., Sime, G. & Matewos, T. (2025) Awareness, access and adoption of climate information services for climate change adaptation in Ethiopia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100590
  4. Taye, D., Semela T. & Zinabu, A. S. (2025) Development and validation of propensity to cheat measure in the Ethiopian public universities. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/bdje.v25i
  5. Berhanu, A., Semela, T. & Moges B. (2025) Development and validation of a secondary school classroom engagement instrument in math and science in the Ethiopian context. DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1491615
  6. Matewos, T, Dejene, M. & Yimer, S. (2025) Empowering pastoralist women through social innovations in Somali and Afar regions of Ethiopia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101319
  7. Dejene, M., Yimer, S., Fentaw, T. & Regassa, N. (2024)Subjective resilience among women and youth clients of social innovation projects executed in five regions of Ethiopia. DOI 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1382058
  8. Cochrane, L., ElAlfy, A, Azadi, H. & Dejene, M. (2024) Defining “success” in large‑scale agricultural investment: a typology based on different stakeholder perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-024-00385-1
  9. Cochrane, L., Lema, D. M. & Ali, Y. S. (2024) Tailored approaches of data collection for improved water system management in resource constrained contexts: lessons from Ethiopia. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2024.2352222
  10. Yona, Y., Matewos, T. & Sime, G. (2024)Analysis of rainfall and temperature variabilities in Sidama regional state, Ethiopia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28184
  11. Semela, T., and Hailu, S.(2024) Women’s Leadership Dilemma: Why Ethiopian Women in Academia Prefer to Stay away from Decision‑Making? https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-024-00371-2
  12. Legide, Y. Y. Sime, G. & Karo, M. T. (2024) Revitalizing indigenous practices employed by farmers to reduce agriculture’s vulnerability to climate change: a systematic review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-024-00888-3
  13. Woldemichael, B., Semela, T. & Tulu, A. (2023) The effect of mathematics self-beliefs on mathematics achievement: the case of undergraduate university students in Ethiopia [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. https://doi.org/10.12688/routledgeopenres.17995.1
  14. Vercillo, S., Huggins, C. & Cochrane, L. (2022) How is Gender Investigated in African Climate Change Research? A Systematic Review of the Literature. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01631-w
  15. Cochrane, L. (2021) The United Arab Emirates as a Global Donor: What a Decade of Aid Data Transparency Reveals. Development Studies Research 8: 49-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/21665095.2021.1883453.
  16. Cochrane, L. and Hadis, S. (2021) Farmers Buying Guns: The Impact of Uncertainty and Insecurity in Rural Ethiopia. African Studies Quarterly 20: 101-113. http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v20/v20i1a6.pdf
  17. Tekeleselassie A.  & Cochrane, L. (2021) The Rush to the Peripheries: Land Rights and Tenure Security in Peri-Urban Ethiopia, Land, 10(2), 193. Link to this article:  https://doi.org/10.3390/land10020193
  18. Cochrane L. & Oloruntoba, Samuel O. (2021) Whose voice matters in the teaching and learning of IPE? Implications for policy and policy making, Policy and Society, 40 (4), 545-564, Link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2021.1975220
  19. Guli, M. V. &  Geda, R. N. (2021a)  Intimate Partners Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: Review of Risk Factors and Impacts. Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 13(3): 1-19, DOI:10.9734/ARJASS/2021/v13i330214
  20. Guli, M. V. & Geda, R. N. (2021b). Maternal Empowerment Indicators Predict Health Care Seeking Behavior during Pregnancy: Evidence from Ethiopian National Data. Journal of Human Ecology, 74(1-3): 20-29. DOI: 10.31901/24566608.2021/74.1-3.3309
  21. Wani,K.C. (2021). Humanitarian Aid and Long-Term Peace and Development in Central Equatorial State and Further: Post 2005: An Overview and Analysis. Ethiopian Renaissance Journal of Social Science and Humanities, 8(2), 167-185. Link to the article: http://www.erisshuog.org/index.php/ERJSSH/article/view/294
  22. Semela Tesfaye & Miethe Ingrid. (2021) East Germany in the Horn of Africa: reflections on the GDR’s educational intervention in Ethiopia, c. 1977–1989, History of Education, 50 (5), 663-684. To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2021.1884753
  23. Cochrane, L. & Thornton, A. (2021). Individual and Institutional Drivers of Inequality in Rural Agricultural Contexts: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia, Northeast African Studies, 21 (1), 19–44. Link to the article: Project MUSEjhu.edu/article/845699.
  24. Cochrane, L. & Dejene, M. (2021) The Expansion of Social Protection System in Ethiopia: Continuity or Rupture of Citizen-State Relations? Afriche e Orienti 2: 49-68. https://logancochrane.com/images/pdf/Afriche_Cochrane_Lemma.pdf
  25. Dejene, M. & Cochrane, L. (2021) Safety Nets as a means of Tackling Chronic Food Insecurity in Rural Southern Ethiopia: What is Constraining Programme Contributions? Canadian Journal of Development Studies. http://logancochrane.com/images/pdf/PSNP_CJDS_Final.pdf
  26. Cochrane, L. (2020) Synthesis of Evaluations in South Sudan: Lessons Learned for Engagement in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States. Journal of Humanitarian Affairs 2: 21-34. DOI:7227/JHA.031
  27. Cochrane, L., Lewis, S., Mastaweshaw M., Thornton, A. and Welbourne, D. (2020) Using Farmer-Based Metrics to Analyze the Amount, Seasonality, Variability and Spatial Patterns of Rainfall Amidst Climate Change in Southern Ethiopia. Journal of Arid Environments 175: 104084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.104084
  28. Matewos, T. (2020). The state of local adaptive capacity to climate change in drought-prone districts of rural Sidama, southern Ethiopia, Climate Risk Management, 27, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2019.100209
  29. Matewos, T. & Teferra, T. (2020) Local level rainfall and temperature variability in drought-prone districts of rural Sidama, central rift valley region of Ethiopia, Physical Geography, 41 (1), 36-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723646.2019.1625850
  30. Semela, T, Bekele, H. & Abraham, A. (2020). Navigating the river Nile: the chronicle of female academics in Ethiopian higher education. Gender and Education, 32:3, 328-346, DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2017.1400522
  31. Cochrane, L. and Legault, D. D. (2020) The Rush for Land and Agricultural Investment in Ethiopia: What We Know and What We Are Missing. Land 9(5): 167 (1-13). doi:10.3390/land9050167.
  32. Cochrane, L. and Davis, J.-M. (2020) Scaling the INGO: What the Development and Expansion of Canadian INGOs Tells Us. Social Sciences 9: 140 (1-14). https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9080140
  33. Dejene Melisew & Semela Tesfaye. (2020)The ‘Problem Represented To Be’ in the Social Protection Policy Regimes of Ethiopia, Forum for Development Studies, 47:3, 511-530,  DOI: 1080/08039410.2020.1833978
  34. Dejene Melisew & Cochrane, L. (2020). Social Protection Implementation Issues in Ethiopia: Client Households’ Perceived Enablers and Constrainers of the Productive Safety Net Program. Societies, 10, 69. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc10030069
  35. Cochrane, L. and Hadis, S. (2019) Functionality of the Land Certification Program in Ethiopia: Exploratory Evaluation of the Processes of Updating Certificates. Land 8(10): 149 (1-14). https://doi.org/10.3390/land8100149
  36. Cochrane, L., Zeid, Y. and Sharif, R. (2019) Mapping Anti-Sexual Harassment and Changing Social Norms in Egypt. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 18(2): 394-420.
  37. Gudata, Z. G., Cochrane, L. and Imana, G. (2019) An Assessment of Khat Consumption Habit and its Linkage to Household Economies and Work Culture: The Case of Harar city. PLoS One 14(11): e0224606.
  38. Harvey, B., Jones, L., Cochrane, L. and Singh, R. (2019) The Evolving Landscape of Climate Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Roles Have NGOs Played. Climatic Change 157: 81-98.
  39. Matewos, T. (2019) Climate Change-Induced Impacts on Smallholder Farmers in Selected Districts of Sidama, Southern Ethiopia, Climate, 7(5):70.: https://doi.org/10.3390/cli7050070
  40. 27.  Matewos, T. (2019) Deconstructing institutional roles in climate change adaptation: The case of local public institutions in drought-prone districts of Sidama, Southern Ethiopia, Environmental Science & Policy, 98, 47-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.05.005
  41. Semela, T. & Cochrane, L. (2019). Education—Migration Nexus: Understanding Youth Migration in Southern Ethiopia, Educational Sciences, 9(2),77: https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci9020077
  42. 29.  Semela, T, Bekele, H. & Abraham, A.  (2019), Women and Development in Ethiopia: A Socio-historical Analysis. Journal of Developing Societies, 35(2), 230-255. https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796X19844438.
  43. Cochrane, L. and Bekele, Y. (2019) Politics and Power in Southern Ethiopia: Imposing, Opposing and Calling for Linguistic Unity. Language Matters 50(3): 26-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2018.1553993
  44. Cochrane, L. and Berhanu, B. B. (2019) Pathways of Legal Advocacy for Change: Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association. Forum for Development Studies 46(2): 347-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2018.1534752
  45. Cochrane, L. (2018) Food Security in Ethiopia: Review of Research, 2005-2016. Ethiopian Journal of Applied Sciences and Technology 9: 1-11.
  46. Cochrane, L. and Bekele, Y. (2018) Contextualizing Narratives of Economic Growth and Navigating Problematic Data: Economic Trends in Ethiopia (1999-2017). Economies 6:64.  https://doi.org/10.3390/economies6040064
  47. Cochrane, L. and Nigussie, Z. (2018) The State of Knowledge on Food Security in Ethiopia: Knowledge Production and Publication Accessibility. Journal of Rural and Community Development 13(3): 152-166.
  48. Cochrane, L. and Gecho, Y. (2018) Data on the Demographics, Education, Health and Infrastructure: Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia. Data in Brief 21: 2095-2102.
  49. Dejene, Melisew & Matewos, Tafesse (2018) Channels Introducing Life Impacting Small Technologies for Women in SNNPR: where are the media? Interdisciplina Vol, 7, no. 17, pp 69-86. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/ceiich.24485705e.2019.17.67522
  50. Semela,T.,  Negasi, H., Esa, A., & Tsedeke D. (2015). Math-related self-beliefs – How important are they in predicting achievement and interest? Evidence from lower secondary school adolescents in Bahir Dar. Ethiopian Journal of Education, 35,(2), 31-80. Link to Article http://213.55.95.79/index.php/EJE/article/view/157
  51. Zeleke, G.A.& Semela, T. (2015). Mathematics attitude among university students: Implications for science and engineering education.Ethiopian Journal of Education, 35, (2), 1-29. Link to the article http://213.55.95.79/index.php/EJE/article/view/642

Books

  1. Cochrane, L. (2021) Ethiopia & Food Security. Tsehai: Los Angeles & Addis Ababa.
  2. Cochrane, L. and Andrews, N., Eds. (2021) The Transnational Land Rush in Africa: A Decade After the Spike. Palgrave: New York.
  3. Cochrane, L., Ed. (2019) Ethiopia: Social and Political Issues. Nova: New York.
  4. Semela,T.& Mains, Daniel (Eds.) (2018). Urbanization: Governance and Social Transformation in Africa. Institute of Policy & Development Research (IPDR), Hawassa University. ISBN: 978-99944-71-93-5.
  5. Semela, T., Regassa, N., Melisew, D. & Matewos, T. (Eds.). (2015). Impacts of women’s development and change package on the socio-economic and political status of women in SNNPR: Promise, successes, and challenges, Center for Policy & Development Research (CPDR), Hawassa University. ISBN: 978-99944-958-34577-6-3.
  6. Semela, T., Melisew, D. & Matewos, T. (Eds.). (2017). Economic Integration, Political Empowerment, and Social Wellbeing of the Youth- Analysis of Youth Development Package Implementation in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Regional State (SNNPRS). Centre for Policy & Development Research (CPDR), Hawassa University. ISBN: 978-99944-958-7-0.
  7. ተስፋዬ ሰመላ፤ መልሰው ደጀኔ፤ ታፈሰ ማቲዎስ፤ የሺጥላ ወንድሜነህ፤ ፍሬው በቀለ፤ እድሉ ሾና እና ፀጋዬ ቱኬ (2019/2012 ዓ.ም). ተገቢ ያልሆነ ንግድ በደ/ብ/ ብ/ሕ/ ክልል ከተሞች (2012 E.C. /2019). የፖሊሲና ልማት ምርምር ተቋም፣ ሀዋሳ ዩኒቨርሲቲ፣  ጥር 2012 ዓ.ም.

Book chapters:

  1. Ojong, N. and Cochrane, L. (2022) Public Policy and Social Protection in Africa: The Rise of Cash Transfers (Chapter 41). In Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa edited by G. Onyango. Routledge: New York.
  2. Kinfu, E. & Cochrane, L. (2022). ‘What makes our land illegal?’ Regularization and the urbanization of rural land in Ethiopia. In Foster, K. & Jarman,    J.(Eds),The right to be rural (pp.271-288). University of Alberta Press.
  3. Andrews, N. and Cochrane, L. (2021) International Political Economy and the Land Rush in Africa: Trends, Scale, Narratives and Contestations (Chapter 1). In The Transnational Land Rush in Africa: A Decade After the Spike. Edited by L. Cochrane and N. Andrews. Palgrave: New York.
  4. Dejene, M. and Cochrane, L. (2021) The Power of Policy and Entrenching Inequalities in Ethiopia: Reframing Agency in the Global Land Rush (Chapter 9). In The Transnational Land Rush in Africa: A Decade After the Spike. Edited by L. Cochrane and N. Andrews. Palgrave: New York.
  5. Cochrane, L., Anku, J. H. and Andrews, N. (2021) Beyond the Land Rush? Reflections on Broader Interactions and the Future of IPE of Africa (Chapter 11). In The Land Rush in Africa: A Decade After the Spike. Edited by L. Cochrane and N. Andrews. Palgrave: New York.
  6. Dejene, M. and Cochrane, L. (2019) Challenges of Institutional Capacity for Implementing Formal Social Protection in Ethiopia (p. 53-74). In L. Cochrane (Ed) Ethiopia: Social and Political Issues. Nova: New York.
  7. Cochrane, L. and Vercillo, S. (2019) Youth Perspectives on Migration, Poverty and the Precarious Future of Farming in Rural Ethiopia (277-296). In Global Perspectives of Gendered Youth Migration, edited by G. Bonifacio. Policy Press.
  8. Dejene, Melisew A Teferi , and Semela, Tesfaye (2017) “Youth Volunteerism in SNNPRS: A Frame from Development Perspective”. In Semela, Tesfaye , Dejene, Melisew  & Matewos, Tafesse  (Eds.).  Economic Integration, Political Empowerment, and Social Wellbeing of the Youth:  Analysis of Rural and Urban Youth Development Packages’ Implementation in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Regional State (SNNPRS). Hawassa: Center for Policy and Development Research, Hawassa University.  ISBN: 978-99944-958-7-0
  9. Teferi Ambachew & Dejene, Melisew (2017) “Vulnerability to Substance Abuse among the Youth in SNNPRS”. In Semela Tesfaye , Dejene Melisew &  Matewos Tafesse  (Eds.).  Economic Integration, Political Empowerment, and Social Wellbeing of the Youth:  Analysis of Rural and Urban Youth Development Packages’ Implementation in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Regional State (SNNPRS). Hawassa: Center for Policy and Development Research, Hawassa University.  ISBN: 978-99944-958-7-0
  10. Dejene, Melisew. G. Ayele and S. Wolde. (2015) “Women Autonomy and Decision Making in SNNPR: A Situational Analysis”. In Tesfaye Semela., Nigatu Regassa., Melisew Dejene. & Tafesse Matewos (Eds.).Impacts of Women Development and Change Packages on the Socio-economic and Political Status of Women in SNNPR: Promise, Success and Challenges, Hawassa: Cneter for Policy and Development Research, Hawassa University. ISBN:978-99944-958-63
  11. Dejene, Melisew., Matewos, Tafesse. & Regassa, Nigatu (2015) “Women and Technology Transfer: An Analytic Appraisal in Light of the Women Development & Change Package” In Tesfaye Semela., Nigatu Regassa. , Melisew Dejene . & Tafesse Matewos (Eds.). Impacts of Women Development and Change Packages on the Socio-economic and Political Status of Women in SNNPR: Promise, Success and Challenges, Hawassa: Center for Policy and Development Research, Hawassa University.  ISBN: 978-99944-958-6-3 
  12. Teferi Ambachew, Dejene, Melisew. & Semela, Tesfaye (2015) “Women and Harmful Traditional Practices in SNNPR”. In Tesfaye Semela, Nigatu Regassa., Melisew Dejene, & Tafesse Matewos. (Eds.). Impacts of Women Development and Change Packages on the Socio-economic and Political Status of Women in SNNPR: Promise, Success and Challenges, Hawassa: Center for Policy and Development Research, Hawassa University.  ISBN: 978-99944-958-6-3

Conference Proceedings

  1. Semela, Tesfaye & Mulatu Mebratu. (Eds.) (2021). Proceedings of the National Conference on Enhancing Reading Culture for Quality Education and Research, Organized by the Institute of Policy and Development Research (IPDR) and Library and Documentation Service Directorate (LDSD) in collaboration with office of the Vice president for research and Technology Transfer (VPRTT), ISBN: 978-99744-3-391-9.

Working Papers

  1. Institute of Policy & Development Research (IPDR). (2017). Women Market and Employment: Opportunities and Challenges in selected Kebles in Wolyita and Hadiya Zones, and Arbaminch Correctional Institution. WEESI PROJECT, IPDR, Hawassa University March, 2017
  2. Institute of Policy & Development Research (IPDR). (2017). A Socio-Economic Baseline Study of Women School Girls, and Female Inmates: The case of Hadiya and Woliyta Zones, and Arbaminch Correctional Institution, WEESI PROJECT, IPDR, Hawassa University March, 2017
  3. Institute of Policy & Development Research (IPDR). (2017). Women Market and Employment: Opportunities and Challenges in selected Kebles in Wolyita and Hadiya Zones, and Arbaminch Correctional Institution. WEESI PROJECT, IPDR, Hawassa University March, 2017
  4. Institute of Policy & Development Research (IPDR). (2017). A Socio-Economic Baseline Study of Women School Girls, and Female Inmates: The case of Hadiya and Woliyta Zones, and Arbaminch Correctional Institution, WEESI PROJECT, IPDR, Hawassa University March, 2017.
  5. Institute of Policy & Development Research (IPDR). (2017). Child Labour in Major Cities of Southern Ethiopia, IPDR, Hawassa University.
  6. በፖሊሲና ልማት ምርምር ኢንስትቲዩ ት (2009 E.C./2017).የደቡብ ብ/ብ/ህ/ክ/ መንግስት የከተሞች መልካም አስተዳደርና የማስፈጸም አቅም ማጎልበት ፓኬጅ: በፖሊሲና ልማት ምርምር ማዕከል ሀዋሳ ዩኒቨርሲቲ 2009 ዓ.ም
  7. በፖሊሲና ልማት ምርምር ኢንስትቲዩት (2009 E.C./2016a). የደቡብ ብ/ብ/ህ/ክ/ መንግስት ከተሞች የመልካም አስተዳደር ሁኔታ የዳሰሳ ጥናት: ጥራዝ ፩. በፖሊሲና ልማት ምርምር ማዕከል ሀዋሳ ዩኒቨርሲቲ 2009 ዓ.ም
  8. በፖሊሲና ልማት ምርምር ኢንስትቲዩት (2009 E.C./2016b)-የወጣቶች ስነምግባር የስራ ባህል እና ጎጂ የመጤ ባህል ተጽዕኖ በደቡብ ከተሞች. በፖሊሲና ልማት ምርምር ኢንስትቲዩት : ሚያዝያ 2009 ዓ.ም

Policy Briefs

  1. Cochrane, L., Dejene, M., Ojong, N. & Sambu, W.C. (2021), Policy Brief: Africa and Food Security. United Nations, Office of the Special Adviser on Africa. 

Book reviews

  1. Semela, T. (2016). Book Review: Funding Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa by Damtew Teferra Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2013, 365pp., ISBN: 978-1-137-34577-6 (Hard cover) Higher Education Policy (2016) 29, 565–568. doi:10.1057/s41307-016-0012-x