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The main purpose of the study was to spot out faced problems of hand ball sport in the North Wollo Zone, to review the stakeholders’ coordination in relation to development of hand ball sport, and to identify finances, facility and equipment provisions of the zone for the sport. To do so, three basic research questions were raised, and cross sectional descriptive survey method research design was employed. Heads of sport offices, handball sport athletes, sport experts, and sport committee members were taken as participants of the study. To collect the required data from these sources, questionnaire was developed for hand ball players; interview for sport office heads, and FGD was designed for both sport committee and sport experts. The collected data was analyzed by using percentage, frequency, mean, and ranked mean and one sample t-test accordingly. Besides, words and narration in general also used to analyze the qualitative data that gathered by interview and FGD. The findings of the study indicated that the handball sport development of the setting has influenced by problems such as government bodies lacks of initiation to facilitate their roles as expected; lack of budget allocation; lack of the required resource materials for the players; lack of regular training; and the players themselves lack of motivation to compute with other groups etc. Moreover, the stakeholders were ineffective to work towards the handball sport development jointly, and the zone was weak to fulfill the required resource materials, budget allocation and provision of the essential equipments for the hand ball sport. Therefore, the sport offices need to work how their profession and their responsibilities have argued; the zonal sport departments and the regional state sport commissions are expected to sport, guide, and help the sport communities, particularly the handball sport players. And they are also need to control, monitor, and evaluate the development status of the handball sport. |
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