Greenwich University (UoG) delegates paid a three-day visit to Haramaya University from 28 to 30 August 2019. The delegates were Prof. John Morton and Dr. Tim Chancellor of the Natural Resource Institute (NRI) of the UoG.

During the welcoming ceremony Prof. Jeylan Woliyie, Vice-president for Administration and Student Affairs, said, “The future of our universities is tied to our success in creating strong and sustainable partnership. Partnership strengths our universities’ motivation and capacity for long-term cooperation and collaboration.”

The delegates also visited HU’s African Center of Excellence – Climate SABC and according to Dr. Mulugeta Damie, Project Manager of ACE Climate SABC, the purpose of the visit was to formalize a partnership previously initiated by Dr. Jemal Yousuf, Acting President of HU, and to conduct a follow up discussion and to identify priority areas of collaboration for mutual benefits of the institutions. The Director of Postgraduate Programs, Prof. Mengistu Urge; Dean of College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Dr. Kibebew Kibret; Deputy Director of ACE Climate SABC, Dr. Bobe Bedadi; school heads and senior faculty affiliated to ACE Climate SABC were among the participants.

During the discussion, participants from both institutions identified key areas for collaborations, including staff and student exchanges and joint proposal development to solicit fund through competitive grants. Moreover, an idea was forwarded to support a postgraduate education opportunity to be financed by NRI through a grant it secured from Expanding Excellence in England Initiative (E3). Accordingly, one staff member of the CAES with background in Agricultural Economics and/or Rural Development and Agricultural Extension will be selected to join a PhD Program at University of Greenwich, UK. The candidate to be selected will carry out a research on ‘Identification of Institutional and Policy Options for Enhancing Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture in Ethiopia’ as part of collaborative research activity by HU-ACE Climate SABC- UoG-NRI, under the supervision of professors from the two institutions.

Moreover, UoG and HU agreed to formalize their relationship through MoU very soon and to prepare action plans and budget for joints activities to be implemented under the umbrella of the partnership agreement.

Prof. John Morton is a professor of Development Anthropology, and Dr. Tim Chancellor is the Director of Capacity Strengthening and Partnerships at NRI.

An appraisal team constituted from the Inter-University Council for Eastern Africa(IUCEA)and World Bank (WB) Country Office paid a visit to Haramaya University’s Africa Center of Excellence for Climate Smart Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation (ACE Climate-SABC)accompanied by representatives from two national partner institutes, the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute and Ethiopian Biotechnology Institute on September 2, 2019 at Resource Center.

Prof. Nigussie Dechassa, Vice-president for Academic Affairs Office and Leader of ACE Climate-SABC, made a welcoming remark emphasizing the importance of such face-to-face meeting in order to jointly review progress of the Center, and reflect upon progresses made and challenges encountered rather than solely relying on written reports. He appreciated the team’s commitment to visit the Center to see progresses on the ground and to interact with the partners, university leadership, center leaders, staff and students.

According to Dr. Mike and Dr. Jonathan from IUCEA, the visit was to seethe performance of the Center, identify key challenges, develop home-grown solutions, and examine sustainability options. The appraisal team believes that effective dialogue and interaction with the project team, partners, students, and the university leadership is the right approach to appraise the Center’s performance and provide technical support.

Dr. BobeBedadi, Deputy Leader of the Center, presented a report on the performance of the Center and the challenges constraining the implementation of ACE Climate-SABC’s training and research activities. According to the report, the Center had met some of the key Disbursement Linked Results (DLRs) such as students’ enrolment with the required sex and regional composition, publications in peer reviewed international journals, number of approved PhD proposals, and generation of revenue/external revenues.

In addition, the report also iterated that impressive achievements were made by the Center with regard to engaging seasoned visiting scholars in teaching and advising postgraduate students at the Center; supporting participation of faculty and students on training and knowledge sharing events at national and international levels; promoting the Center and its programs; establishing functional governance and management systems; and creating conducive teaching-learning environment by improving facilities such as smart classrooms, well-furnished students’ accommodation, video conferencing etc. It was also indicated that the programs were accredited at national level and effort was underway for accreditation at regional and international levels.

Research activities at ACE Climate SABC are mainly carried out by the postgraduate students under the supervision of affiliated senior faculty from the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, the other colleges of the university, and scholars from national, regional and international partners. MSc and PhD students in the first cohort are doing their field research in their respective countries (8 countries including Ethiopia).

Students of ACE Climate-SABC are expected to generate new knowledge, technologies, management options, and insights for policy formulation through the thesis/dissertation research projects in areas of CSA, biodiversity and ecosystems management in eastern and southern Africa. To this effect, the Center had established thematic research areas to guide research activities.

The partners appreciated the progress that the Center has made so far and reiterated their readiness and commitment to continue their relationships and contribute more toward mutual benefits through formal and concrete partnership arrangements. In addition, the partners advised ACE Climate-SABC to be more pro-active in making itself part of the larger national institutional ecosystem.Representative of Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute indicated that staff members of his institute are the major beneficiaries in terms of capacity building through MSc and PhD training at ACE Climate-SABC and that the institute considers the Center as its own and committed to do whatever it can for the success of the center and its programs. In particular, the representative from Ethiopian Biotechnology Institute indicated the possibility to provide financial support for technology transfer and innovation activities once the center would start generating research outputs. In addition, it would like to jointly work with the center to create the required capacity and state-of-the-art facility for measuring GHG emission.

Dr. JemalYousuf, Acting President of the University, stressed the commitment of the University’s leadership to help the Center succeed, and thanked the mission and partners for visiting Haramaya

The team visited the facilities of the Center and had a discussion session with MSc and PhD students about the Center and its performance.The mission expressed its overall satisfaction with the relative performance of ACE Climate-SABC and the support provided by the University leadership, including matching fund and close guidance.

Haramaya University wishes to recruit and employ qualified professionals in the discipline presented here under

Haramaya University wishes to recruit and employ qualified professionals in the discipline presented hereunder.

Place of Application

• Interested Applicants who meet the minimum requirements should submitted their applicant letter together with non returnable CV and copies of supporting documents to Haramaya University Human resource Management and Development Directorate Office, Administration Building 1^st Floor, Room No.114 or Haramaya University Liaison Office at Addis Ababa, Arat Kilo. Former Germany Cultural Institute Building, Office No.15.

Deadline for Application:

• Within 5 (Five) Working days after the announcement of this vacancy

         CGPA for Lecturer Applicants

• > 5 for  Male applicants and the undergraduate CGPA should not be less than 3.00
• > 35 for Female applicants and the undergraduate CGPA should not be less than 2.75
• >   15 for  applicants with Disabilities and the undergraduate CGPA Should not be less than 2.5
• For Lecturer applicants his/her thesis has to be B+ or  equivalent

የ2012 የትምህርት ዘመን ምዝገባ መስከረም 26 እና 27 ቀን 2012 ዓ.ም የሚከናወን ስለሆነ ከመስከረም 24 ቀን 2011 ዓ.ም ጀምሮ ወደ ዩኒቨርሲቲያችን መግባት እንደምትችሉ እያሳወቅን ዘግይተው የሚመጡ ተማሪዎች በቅጣት ምዝገባ የሚካሄደው ትምህርት በሚጀመርበት መስከረም 28 ቀን 2012 ዓ.ም መሆኑን እንገልፃለን፡፡

የጤናና ህክምና ሳይንስ ኮሌጅ ተማሪዎች ብቻ ከመስከረም 10 ቀን 2012 ዓ.ም ጀምሮ ወደ ግቢ ገብተው ምዝገባ መስከረም 11-12/2012 ዓ.ም የሚካሄድ ይሆናል፡፡

Haramaya University College of Computing and informatics in cooperation with ICT Directorate and Community engagement Directorate gave five days training entitled, ‘Basic and Advanced ICT Training’ to Harari People Regional State Municipality Office Employees at Haramaya University college of Health and Medical Science, Harar Campus from September 17-21/2019.

During the training opening ceremony, Mr. Samuel Getachew, the delegated head of computer science department, said that the rationality of the digital device is characterized by two crucial problems; limited and costly infrastructure, and limited digital literacy in low/middle income communities. As Mr. Samuel, in order to overcome this challenge, equal emphasis should be given to digital skills development as to infrastructure development. In this context, the essential investment in digital skills is the subsequent management and evaluation of digital training for employees in different sectors. This will, in turn, contribute significantly for the advancement and improvement of 21^stcentury’s organizational activities.

The objective of the training is to create computer skilled employees in Harari People Regional State Municipality Office by providing ICT training that creates a skill of access to ICT facilities under the organization in order to produce modern way of serving stakeholders using ICT infrastructure in this information era.

In the training, 38 trainees, and 4 trainers participated for its successful completion.After appreciating the University and the trainers about the given training, the trainees said that they need more training on particular computer applications that are directly used in their organizational activities as this one is the first time for them.

Consultative workshop on issues of substance abuse was organized by Meqomia community Development Organization with the support of Ministry of health and USAID transform, primary Health care project at Haramaya University on September 23, 2019.

In the opening ceremony, Professor Jeylan Wolyie, vice president for students and administrative affairs, and delegated by the University president, said that an addicted person cannot save others from addictions as him or her himself is burning in the fire of addiction. Addiction could bring multidimensional rescues on individuals, societies, and in the country level at large. As a result, it hurts the countries socio-economic stabilities. At this time, the number of people exposed to addiction is increasing, especially the university students as they are youth. We must, therefore, save the current students in particular and youth in general from destructive addictions if we want to have better future in our country.

Mr. Aliyas Kalayu, the Meqomia community Development Organization founder and Manager, in his turn, said that the main objective of the workshop is to create awareness about the general concepts related to different kinds of addictions and their rescues on the individual and country level. Likewise, the vision of the organization is ‘to see addiction substance and miserable ideology free and visionary generation awaked and rose’.

More than 30 participants selected from different parts of the community such as religious leaders, administrators, women and concerned University directorate members attended the workshop. In addition to the general concepts, the participants discussed on the way how to eradicate the wide spread of different kinds of addictions in the community and in the University, and presented their life experiences as an example to the workshop participants.

Lastly group photo ceremony was celebrated

Child Health and Mortality Surveillance (CHAMPS) Ethiopia Bio-Medical Engineer (BME)
We are seeking to appoint a full time multi-skilled and experienced Bio-Medical Engineer (BME) to be based in Harar, Ethiopia. The role is to support development of a medical research laboratory of a new Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance site in Harar, Ethiopia. This is a collaboration between Haramaya University, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Emory Global Health Institute.
CHAMPS laboratories are located at the College of Health and Medical Sciences, and at HiwotFana Hospital in Harar at present, although laboratory work in Kersa District is possible…

HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY CHAMPS Medical Laboratory Technician
CHILD HEALTH AND MORTALITY PREVENTION SURVEILLANCE NETWORK (CHAMPS) The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance network (CHAMPS, http://champshealth.org/)is a new global health surveillance network funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at understanding the causes of child death in developing countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The Emory Global Health Institute, which houses the U.S. office of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI), is the lead partner in the network and has worked with the London School of Hygiene to develop the collaboration with Haramaya University.
HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY, OROMIA, ETHIOPIA
Haramaya University is one of the oldest Universities in Ethiopia, with its first intake in 1954. It is about 17km from the city of Harar, 40km from Dire Dawa (where there is a regional airport), and 510km East of Addis Ababa. The College of Health and Medical Sciences is based on a campus in Harar town to facilitate training of students in nearby hospitals. This campus also hosts the office of the two Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS)….

Haramaya University has completed the preparations required to welcome its regular students. The university’s board for senior students will open on 26/01/2012 Ethiopian calendar. In connection to this, the university conducted an awareness building training on meanings of peace and ways of combating violent extremism on 1^st of October 2019.

The motto of the training was: Let us give peace a chance. The training participants were high profile military officers, police officers, political-administrative practitioners and representatives of relevant other development institutions.

According to Prof. Jeylan Weliyi, Trainer and Vice President of Administrative & Student Affairs, the training created awareness on the role of multi–stakeholder partnerships and collaborative creativity for enhancing peace-building efforts. It offered the participants the opportunity to discuss how to build and maintain resilient, reliable and holistic peace.

The trainees learned the fact that violent extremism is an existential threat to peace and peaceful existence in the entire world and no country is immune to it. In relation to this, the training raised the participants’ awareness on structural drivers of violent extremism and pathways to radicalization and violent extremism. In addition, it addressed sections of the society that are most vulnerable to the evil ideas of violent extremism and what should be done to minimize their vulnerability.

The trainees were also given analytic frameworks used to assess the trends, causes and dynamics of radicalization and violent extremism.

Delegate of the Academic Affairs vice President, Prof. Mengistu Urge in his remark stated that the training is a part of preparation for the academic year and it emphasized on the role of grassroots embrace of peace, open dialogue and youth empowerment in preventing and confronting violent extremism.

Haramaya University has completed the preparations required to welcome its regular students. The university’s board for senior students will open on 26/01/2012 Ethiopian calendar.

                                                                                                   Date: 30/09/2019

                              Notice

To All New (1^st year) Adult Health Nursing and Maternity & Neonatal Nursing Students

Registration for 2019/2020 academic year will be conducted on October 07 and 08, 2019 and registration for late comers with penalty and class will begin on October 09, 2019.  We will not accept any students who will came after abovementioned days.

Regards

Haramaya University has made an awareness building conference on October 2, 2019 with local community members on peace matters and on how to ensure the stability and growth of the university.

The conference participants are from the surrounding administrative localities of the rural community. Religious leaders, gada practitioners, women, youth, and members of public and community police were among the participants. The consultative conference was arranged based on the view that collective and inclusive peace is ensured by creating public spaces for interactive and co-constructive engagement.

Haramaya University Acting President Dr Jemal Yousuf in his opening speech explained that the consultative platform created the opportunity to openly discuss on what should be done to promote and establish a state of peaceful co-existence where all members of the society, irrespective of their religion, ethnicity and political orientations, can exist together based on principles of mutuality, reciprocity and interactivity.

The participants exchanges their views and insights that peaceful co-existence is ensured in a society where all members work to access one another’s perspectives and exert their efforts to attain collective resiliency. The community elders as well as religious leaders emphasized that peace prevails when we speak good words to one another and when we try to drive off darkness with light instead of facing darkness with darkness.

The community members emphasized that our peace can continue to exist if we reconcile with our past, make our present one full of resilience and work to create the future that is meaningful for all of us. In relation to this, they iterated the fact that good and respectful words are resilient and impactful voices that have the capacity to reverberate for generations. They accentuated also that a stronger state of peaceful co-existence can be maintained by nurturing mutual care and respect, and by building common mutual understanding on one another’s competing political and social narratives, when all of us fulfill our moral, institutional and civic obligations to the rest of society and when we do things that yield social justice and bring about peace and harmony. The consultative meeting generally created awareness that only a society that listens to itself can resiliently respond to irregularities and mishaps.

In relation to supporting and protecting Haramaya University, the participants emphasized the importance of closer and cooperative interaction between all stakeholders. They stated that the university and its surrounding people can get reliable peace if all of the concerned stakeholders organize their agency around the principles of mutuality and interdependence. The community members promised to protect the university from becoming a victim of caustic agenda and destructive agents. They voiced the view that they would not allow their university and the surrounding community to become the breeding grounds of individuals that want to sow the seed of divisiveness and disintegration. They pledged that in the event that any divisive discourses enter the community, they would assume fuller responsibility to beat back through positive counter-discourses that reinforce norms of tolerance, and mutual respect.

According to the Vice President for Administrative and Student Affairs Prof. Jeylan Weliyi, HU is working with the surrounding community and other stake holders to ensure the stability and growth of the university.

Haramaya University’s academic and research staff members, stakeholders and some representatives of Haramaya Watershed Communities held discussion on the history, Current Status, and future fate of “Participatory Integrated Lake Haramaya Watershed Development (PILHWSD)” at Resource Centeron 30 September 2019.

In the discussions two short presentations were made for the participants, Briefing on Backgrounds and Challenges Faced in the Process of PILHWSD was given by Dr.Abdulatif Ahmed, former coordinator of the watershed development. Following this, Mr. Teferi Taddesse (former technical coordinator of the watershed development) presented informing implementation successes entitled as Current Status and Future Fate of PILHWSD. The presentations depicted some successful implementations especially in fully rehabilitating the upper sub watersheds of Tinike and Damota. The challenges faced during the implementation includes weak involvement of the stakeholders, undetermined fate of (as it is neither a project nor a program) the PILHWSD, budget and others. Because of these limitations desired impact has not been achieved in restoring the watersheds and the Lakes (Haramaya and Tinike) as restoring the whole system of Lake Haramaya Watershed demands addressing various biophysical and socioeconomic issues that should encompass 15,000 hectares of land.

Following the presentations, discussion continued by asking questions, giving comments, and suggesting the future directions on PILHWSD. The comments include revising PILHWSD, strengthening the participation of stakeholder from local to national level, involving the communities in the watershed at large, bridging the gaps between the development and research so that, both can feed each other in the process of developing the watershed, arranging different platforms until different stakeholders and communities adequately take shared responsibilities in developing the watershed, and any other steps that will fetch the watershed development towards sustainable base.

In summary, Dr. JemalYusuf explained that rehabilitating Haramaya Watershed and restoring Lakes Haramaya and Tinike is the issue of struggle for survival which will enforce the University, stakeholders at all levels, and the communities in the watershed. Haramaya University will take its share starting from revising the development document, mobilizing the communities, and stakeholders towards integrated development of the watershed. Finally, he gave direction to the organizers of this discussion to arrange another platform in very near future for detail discussion that enable us to design future roadmap for the watershed development.

Haramaya University academic staffs and Administration council members held a discussion on maintain peaceful Teaching-Learning process in the current academic year at Afran Kallo hall on October 11, 2019.

The document which prepared by Ministry of Science and Higher Education focused on higher education trends and the coming years directions, was presented to the participants. In the document, the previous government’s attention given to the Education sector was briefly discussed in relative to that of the incumbent government. As the document, the education sector obtain the highest level of budget allocations even though the education sector product(students) quality and job market is declining from time to time in comparing with the number of educated human power produced from the sector.

In addition, the teaching-learning environment is now days becoming disturbed by the external political waves. The discussion is, therefore, held to formulate a solution and to set directions for the 2012 E.C academic year. In order to make 2012 E.C a peaceful and fruitful academic year as is being thought, every concerned body including the Ministry of Science and Higher Education should fulfill its responsibility as the sector needs.

In the discussion, many questions, comments and suggestions were forwarded to the stage. Among them are: Rule of law should be respected, Continuous discussion should be held with stake holders, Cases for conflict should be solved in advance, Teachers and students should be engaged fully in their duty, Good governance problems should be solved, Political issues shouldn’t be entertained in the University and so on.

At the end, appreciating the questions, comments and suggestions raised by participants, the University Acting President Dr. Jemal Yousuf gave some elaboration and the way forward for 2012 E.C academic year.

Similarly, discussion with HU’s students was held on the document on October 14, 2019.  

Haramaya University conducted an initial discussion with China’s Institute of Sociology and Academy of Social Science on how to launch a new partnership project. The discussion was held in the president office of Haramay University on October 17, 2019.

As was said in the discussion, the China’s Academy of Social Science aspires to work with Hramaya University, Addis Ababa University, and Hawasa University using the thought project.

The discussants started on the project concept by focusing on how to improve community’s living condition, which problem area should be addressed first, how the community’s real problems could be assessed and so on.

The project differs in its approaches from the usual project establishing way as it is not predesigned project; rather it will be designed after conducting a need assessment and identifying the community’s problems. Then the project will be implemented on the main problems of the community to maintain a possible solution.

In the discussion, for starting point of the project identification process, some problems were raised in related to the global warming the society’s malnutrition, the absence of enough job market for the youth society and other problems were discussed. After assessed and identifying the project design if it is possible to create fishpond; the malnutrition and absence of job market, water shortage and other problems will be solved.

Dr. Jemal Yousuf, the Haramaya University acting president said that, to establish a partnership with china’s academy of social science and to work together on the area of research and human resource development, discussion is holding between the Haramaya University and china’s academy of social science.