Public infrastructures: roads, agricultural extension services, electricity, ICT, protected water sources, irrigation, formal education centers, and formal health centers are essential for human-being in diversifying their livelihood strategies. The general objective of this study is to examine the possible effect of rural public infrastructures on the rural households’ livelihood strategies. The empirical assessments elsewhere in Ethiopia and the circumstances on the rural livelihood in association with public infrastructures have conferred the paucity of sociological research. This study used the pragmatist research philosophy that advocates ontological and epistemological mixes in an effort to minimize the gaps noted on the empirical knowledge. Accordingly, the research strategy employs the triangulation of quantitative and qualitative approaches. As mirror to the methodological triangulation, the analysis has followed a mixed design that combines descriptive and inferential techniques with the themes emerging through qualitative explorations. Cross-tabulation descriptive statistics and binary and multinomial logistic regression were employed. Consequently, the findings of the research revealed that public infrastructures have a significant influence on livelihood diversification strategies. Specifically, there were significant associations whereby households who have access to assume infrastructures did more likely engage in mixed livelihood diversification strategies than households who don’t have access to respective rural public infrastructures. The findings from qualitative data also emphasize indispensability of given public infrastructures for diversification of livelihood strategies. Thus, by including cultural elements of local people, responsible bodies should increase the required resources for the purpose of upgrading and managing public infrastructures particularly on all-weather roads.

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公共基础设施和生计策略：以吉马州克萨区的农户为例

公共基础设施：道路，农业推广服务，电力，ICT，受保护的水源，灌溉，正规教育中心和正规卫生中心对于人类多样化其生计战略至关重要。这项研究的总体目标是研究农村公共基础设施对农村家庭谋生策略的可能影响。埃塞俄比亚其他地方的实证评估以及与公共基础设施有关的农村生计情况，使得社会学研究很少。这项研究使用了实用主义的研究哲学，该哲学主张本体论和认识论的混合，以最大程度地减少经验知识上的差距。因此，该研究策略采用定量和定性方法的三角关系。作为方法三角剖分的镜像，分析遵循了混合设计，该设计将描述性和推论性技术与通过定性探索形成的主题相结合。采用交叉表描述性统计以及二元和多项式逻辑回归。因此，研究结果表明，公共基础设施对民生多样化战略具有重大影响。具体而言，存在着重要的协会，即那些能够使用基础设施的家庭比无法使用相应农村公共基础设施的家庭更有可能参与混合的生计多样化战略。定性数据的发现还强调了特定的公共基础设施对于民生战略多样化的不可或缺性。因此，负责机构应通过纳入当地人民的文化因素，增加必要的资源，以改善和管理公共基础设施，特别是在全天候道路上。