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Item ASSESSING THE INVOLVEMENT OF WOMEN IN ADULT NON-FORMAL EDUCATION CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS፡ A CASE STUDY OF ARBA MINCH CITY(Mekelle University, 2018-06-25) Askalech AyanoT This study primarily focuses on assessing the involvement of women in Adult Non-Formal Education (ANFE) Challenges and Prospects in relation to the cases in four selected ANFE centers such as Beare, Doysa, Dilfana and Menaharya kebeles in Arba Minch city (Secha and Sikela sub cities). To achieve this objective, the researcher designed descriptive survey with qualitative and quantitative approaches to data gathering and analysis. The researcher formulated three specific objectives directed towards assessing the current level of involvement of women in ANFE, knowing the attitudes and perceptions of participating women as to benefit gained by participating in the Program and identifying the existing challenges that deter women from full participation in ANFE program. To this end, the researcher prepared the questionnaire and administered for 70 women ANFE participants; an interview was conducted with 5 students from the class who ranked1-10 (top ten ANFE students), 2 facilitators, 1 school principal, and one educational expert, in order to gather qualitative data. The researcher conducted focus group discussions with 36 stakeholders from the ANFE within 4 groups having 9 participants. Then both qualitative and quantitative data were collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Hence, the results of the study revealed that there is the low level of women participation in ANFE and there is an explicit difference from the last two years (2007/08 E.C). It ranges from the majority satisfactory to very good. The findings revealed that women participate in ANFE positively benefits them to gain more understanding about personal and household hygiene, to improve their living condition, to improve and develop their writing and reading skills, to gain more awareness about HIV/AIDS, and to have more understanding about their rights and equalities. Besides, women involved in ANFE were more likely to send their children to school, manage their own income, participate in small and micro business, and have the good understanding of family planning. The study showed that women participant in ANFE helped them to build self-confidence, to improve their future life situations, to become leader to any position, to increase awareness about environmental protection, to improve their feeding habit, to decrease fertility rate by increasing their knowledge of family planning. Nevertheless, there exist challenges that hinder women from full participation in ANFE Program. These include the shortage of income, lack of trained facilitators, workload/house hold task/, lack of enough time to participate in the program, distance from their house to the ANFE center, family problems, lack of awareness about the program and limitations in government support were the major ones. Therefore, all ANFE stakeholders need to work in collaboration so as to enhance/sustain/ women participation in ANFE program