Topic of thesis: The Healing Asset: The Role of Social Capital on Households’ Social and Economic Well- Being as part of responses towards Institutions in Crisis; Evidences from Pastoral and Agro-pastoral Communities of Ethiopia
Abstract: Livestock production plays a critical economic and social role in the lives of pastoralists and agro-pastoralists. Livestock fulfills an important function in coping with shocks, accumulating wealth, and serving as a store of value in the absence of formal financial institutions and other missing markets. In pastoral communities, there is almost always strong inter-dependence and co-operation between households. One of the reasons for this is that pastoralism is labor intensive. Pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the study site have institutionalized the above-mentioned practices that have a fabulous role in allowing households to have an access to land, pasture, and water. Mutual assistance is also important in terms of each household’s survival in an uncertain and risky environment. Households that have lost many animals to drought usually depend heavily upon assistance from within the group to help them survive and recover. This spirit of mutual cooperation and assistance operates in both bad and ‘normal’ years. It is very common, for poorer households to ‘oversell’ (i.e. to sell more animals than their herd size can sustain) even in ‘normal’ years, and for the difference to be made up through gifts from better-off relatives. Loan arrangements are also common. There is growing empirical evidence that social capital contributes significantly to sustainable development. Sustainability is to leave future generations as many, or more, opportunities as we ourselves have had. Growing opportunity requires an expanding stock of capital.  This study has the objective of examining the role of social capital on household economic well-being and sustainable development in selected districts of Ethiopia Somali Regional State.To do so, the study will employ cross-sectional and approximate longitudinal study using cross-sectional designs. Approximating longitudinal using cross-sectional will enables to see the role social capital in shocks and other livelihood vulnerabilities and how it contributes to building social and economic well-being.
Research Interests: Human Trafficking and Irregular Migration, Social Capital and Social Protection Schemes, Lived Experiences of Families of  Mental Health Patients, Gender and Societies, Indigenous Social Institutions  and Social transformation, Resilience,  Indigenous Institutions
Graduated from: BA Degree in Sociology from Wollega University, (Ethiopia) MSW- Masters of Social Work from Addis Ababa University, (Ethiopia)

Degrees obtained: Degree- in Sociology MSW- Masters of Social Work, Social Work and Health Care Concentration)
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