Africa Center of Excellence for Climate Smart Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation     

(ACE Climate SABC) Conducted Training of Trainers (TOT) on

Integrated Waste Management and Eco-friendly Landscaping

A five-day training of trainers was conducted at the Resource Center located on the main campus of Haramaya University. Professor Mengistu Urge, Delegate Vice-President for Academic Affairs, welcomed the participants and officially opened the training on the morning of December 17, 2019.

The training was conducted with the objective of imparting knowledge, creating a favorable attitude and developing skills of potential future trainers in effective, efficient and integrated waste management and eco-friendly landscaping. The training was conducted with the intent of making contributions towards on-going efforts in the University and the country at large to realize green, healthy and climate-smart environments, which would be ecologically and socially sustainable.

Dr. Lemma Wogi, Mr. Arbo Feyisa Bobassa, and Mr. Tamrat Kassa, from the School of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, had developed course modules and successfully delivered the ToT on Environmental and Social Safeguard: Integrated Waste Management and Eco-friendly Landscaping from 17-21 December 2019.

The participants were from different colleges of the University (Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya Institute of Technology, Law, and Natural and Computational Sciences), Laboratory Management Directorate, Student Service Directorate, Campus Beautification Unit, and representatives of students’ Environmental Club. In addition, municipalities (Awaday, Haramaya and Bate) and a private organization (Hamaressa Edible Oil Factory) attended the training. In total, 30 participants had successfully completed the training and were awarded certificates for their participation.

The training involved lectures, group discussions, field visits and observations, and finally general discussion was made on the way forward.  On the last session, the resource persons made a presentation on the contents covered and issues raised during the training for further deliberations. The general discussion was co-chaired by Professor Kebede Woldetsadik, Vice President for Enterprise Development and Community Engagement and Professor Mengistu Urge, Delegate Vice-President for Academic Affairs of the University. The Office of the Vice-President for Research Affairs was represented by Dr. Chanyalew Seyoum, Director for Research, Extension and Publication.

The officials handed over the certificates, and the training was officially closed with a short remarks by Professor Kebede on the way forward and next step. Accordingly, a platform for a high level discussion would be organized by the higher offices, Senate Standing Committee for Environmental Affairs and ACE Climate SABC with the leadership of the Office of Vice President for Academic Affairs. The event would focus on presentations by experts and discussion of stakeholders on challenges facing Haramaya University and the surrounding communities and municipalities (Bate, Haramaya, Awady, and Harar). The expected output would be agreement on  the need for formulating strategy and mobilizing resources to implement effective and financially sustainable integrated waste management and eco-friendly landscaping within and beyond the campus in the medium- and long-term.

Haramaya University’s College of Health and Medical Sciences graduated 239 medical students for the seventh time. According to Dr Yadeta Dessie, the College, established in 1988, has trained and graduated various medical professionals in the past 23 years.

Dr Jamal Yousuf, Haramaya University President, addressed the graduates and urged them to take up their civic responsibility by continuing to contribute to the development of the nation in the medical field through community engagement and research. “As you graduate today, I urge you to take part in the civic and humanitarian role by taking a serious responsibility for the education and vision of the health sector. Without self-doubt, be sure to build a country for yourself, your family and your people, and the African continent, not only in the circumstances that our country is facilitating but seeking opportunities elsewhere as well.”

In his message to the graduates, University Board of Trustees Chairman, Dr. Engineer Habtamu Itefa, called on the graduates to be more knowledgeable and to serve their people carefully, recognizing that their level of knowledge is not the beginning of knowledge. “The profession you are graduating into is, under the Creator, the epitome of responsibility to sustain human life. So, you can be free of guilt, you need to take care in following careless orders. Be servants of our nation’s people: mothers, fathers and children; I ask this of you.”

Mr Ordin Bedri, Harari National Regional State President, on his part said that the Harari Region will work readily with Haramaya University on its activities in the region. He added that, “The University’s efforts to support the people of our region and to provide expertise in the health sector in Eastern Ethiopia will be as important as before, and we will continue to support.” The candidates received their degrees from Mr. Ordin Bedri’s and Dr Engineer Habtamu’s hands.

The highest rank holder and gold medallist, Dr. Seblenwongel Shewul, said that she is ready to take on the challenges the profession has and serve the community with integrity. She said that students should make their education a priority to achieve their goals.

Other graduates also expressed their happiness to have overcome many challenges and finally be graduating today.

በሐረማያ ዩኒቨርሲቲ የቤነፊት፣ አይ፣ ኤስ፣ ኤስ፣ ዲ (BENEFIT-ISSD) ፕሮጀክት ከዚህ በታች ለተገለጸዉ የስራ መደብ ስራ ፈላጊዎችን አወዳድሮ መቅጠር ይፈልጋል።

የስራ መደብ መጠሪያ              ሾፌር

የቅጥር ሁኔታ                         ኮንትራት አስከ መስከረም 30, 2013

ደሞዝ                                      8360

የሚፈለገዉ ብዛት                   1(አንድ)

የስራቦታ                                  አዲስ አበባ

ተፈላጊ ችሎታ                     የቀድሞ 10ኛ ክፍል ት/ት ያጠናቀቀ/ች 3ኛ ደረጃ መንጃ ፍቃድና በሙያዉ/ዋ 9ዓመት የስራ ልምድ ወይም 10/12ኛ ክፍል ት/ት ያጠናቀቀ/ች፣ 3ኛ ደረጃ መንጃ ፍቃድና በሙያዉ 7 ዓመት የስራ ልምድ ያለው/ላት፣ በመልካም ስነ-መግባር የታነጸ/ች።

ይህ ማስታወቅያ ከወጣበት ቀን ጀምሮ ባሉት 5 (አምስት) ተከታታይ የስራ ቀናት መረጃዉን በምያዝ በሀርማያ ዩኒቨርሲቲ ዋናዉ ግቢ በቢዝነስና ኢኮኖሚክስ ኮሌጅ ክላስተር የሰዉ ሀብት ስራ አመራር ቢሮ እና አዲስ አበባ አራት ኪሎ ሮሚና ካፌ አጠግብ የቀድሞዉ የጀርመን ካልቸራል ኢንስቲቱት ህንፃ ላይ በሚገኘዉ የሐረማያ ዩኒቨርሲቲ ጉዳይ ማስፈጸሚያ ቢሮቁ ጥር 15 ማመልከት ይቻላል።

መሳሰቢያ፡ አመልካቾች ቀደም ሲል የሰሩበትን መስሪያ ቤት አድራሻ፣ ያሰራቸዉን ሰዉ (ሰዎች) ስልክ ቁጥር በሰነዳቸዉ ላይ ማስፈር አለባቸዉ።

Assistant IT Systems and Datacentre Specialist

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).

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.

JOB PURPOSE:

This is an entry level position for this opening. The holder will be responsible for software development of Software applications in the environment that meets HHR objectives in accordance to set standards.

JOB DESCRIPTION 

Post:                                       Assistant IT System and Datacentre specialist

Location                                 Haramaya University, Oromia, Ethiopia

Responsible to:                     Chief Technology Officer

Full Time/Part Time/Casual: Full time

No. of posts                           1

Duration of contract             1 year with likely extension

Salary:                                    10,000 Birr per month

Place of application:

• Haramaya University Cluster Human Resource Management Office, College of Business and Economics Building.
• Haramaya University College of Health and Medical Sciences, Human Resource Management and Development Associate Director Office, No.7 at Harar.
• Haramaya University Liaison Office at Addis Ababa, Arat Kilo. Former Germany Cultural Institute Building Office No.15

Application Deadline:           8 (Eight) working days after the day of advertisement

Key Responsibilities

• Creates and maintains Datacentre and Enterprise systems plans for the programme, contributes to setting service level agreements, and plans the infrastructure necessary to provide the Enterprise systems services to meet such agreements.
• To implement and administrate Enterprise applications
• To support the server and storage infrastructure
• To implement change to the environment in line with the change management processes provide preventative maintenance on the server, storage and the Enterprise systems.
• Manage Incidences, Problems, Events and Service requests, Raising Change Requests to transit resolves to technology problems. Transiting technology products in the Service Portfolio, retiring and replacing them at the end of the lifecycle.
• To ensure all Enterprise applications are configured correctly with regard to security patches, security policies, software versions, security configuration, and recoverability
• To ensure all Enterprise systems are backed up correctly and to carry out regular test restores
• To carry out project-based work to implement new solutions
• To provide 3rd line support for the IT Support Technicians as and when needed
• Review and report through Project Management software tasks on IT infrastructure projects
• Work closely to direct outsourced infrastructure consultancies on implementing and maintenance of systems in the Data Centre for the Enterprise Private Cloud
• Ability to build an architectural schema of the Enterprise Systems
• Provide direction on outsourced Enterprise Systems consultancies
• Ability to model Enterprise for disaster recovery and testing for audit purposes.
• Contributes by advice and documented summaries in IT policy making process
• To develop monitoring and alerting dashboards for enterprise systems
• To develop enterprise architectural solutions for installation and integration of systems on the Enterprise Private Cloud
• To manage the installation and integration of enterprise operating system (server operating systems and SAN systems)

SKILLS AND COMPETENCE:

• Degree level in Engineering or Computer Science or BSc IT and experience of least 1 years in IT.
• Excellent customer support and communication skills
• Experience of installing and supporting Windows 20xx, 7, 8.x
• Knowledge of Active Directory support and management
• Knowledge of installing and configuration of a Microsoft Exchange Server 201x, Microsoft Lync, DHCP, DNS, radius and GPO support and management
• Good understanding of: Enterprise systems, firewall concepts, network-based storage solutions, and server hardware
• Ability to develop architectural diagrams to illustrate infrastructure layout

Desirable

• Experience of supporting a 20+ mixed Operation System server environment
• MCSE Server Infrastructure (Must give evidence of the exam certificate done by an authorised testing body, i.e. Pearson VUE, Prometric, etc.)
• Knowledge of configuring Microsoft Hyper-V
• Experience of working in a research establishment
• Supporting a multi-subneted, VLAN network environment
• Microsoft SQL server support
• MySQL database support
• IT Security certification
• Knowledge in unified communication technologies

Job Title:    Communication Officer

Job Profile                

• Place of work: Haramaya University, main campus
• Type of employment: Contractual
• Duration: Two years with possible extension up to five years
• Reports to: ACE Center Leader

Job Description

The communication officer will be responsible for publicizing, networking, and conveying activities of the ACE project.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Develops communication strategies and plans to meet specified communication objectives of the Center.
• Organizes meetings, workshops, and forums of the ACE project
• Drafts, compiles, documents, and disseminates specific knowledge and information, key experiences and critical lessons on ACE activities and implementation
• Compiles and publishes information bulletins, magazines, etc. of the ACE
• Promotes Centre’s programs and activities
• Follows up on partnership activities, collaborations and networking, and reports progress
• Contributes to the ACE website and social media channels through writings articles, documentary video, and audiovisual productions, maintaining and updating photo galleries
• Develops and maintains contact with the media, press and journalists, produces press releases and develops and manages media contact lists
• Writes publicity articles for the local and international media in Amharic and English languages on and ACE activities and achievements to the general public through different media
• Prepares and manages the publication and dissemination of project training and extension materials in consultation with project team members.
• Assists the project in media, communication and dissemination of output
• Maintains the project’s website, bimonthly newsletters and press releases
• Prepares photographic records of events, project videos, and documents project activities
• Liaises with project partners and stakeholders on sharing audio-visual and printed communication materials;
• Liaises with journalists to disseminate project information, news, and outputs through different media
• Acts as an ambassador to the project, its partners, and beneficiaries
• Continually evaluates the success of communication strategy/internal and external communications
• Performs any other similar and related duties

Required Qualifications and Work Experience

A minimum of Master’s degree in communication, agricultural information and communication management, Journalism, or other relevant disciplines with at least two-year experience in written, oral, and online communications

Preferred Specific Experiences

• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize and facilitate conferences, workshops, meetings, seminars, etc.
• Experience in proper handling of university property and communication with national and international students and staff
• A thorough knowledge of the working environment in Ethiopian universities is a plus
• Qualified women are particularly encouraged to apply

Required Skills

• Extensive knowledge and conceptual understanding of the job of a communications officer, to take care of specialized technical as well as administrative functions of the job, e.g. knowledge of relevant policies and procedures to be able to determine an appropriate course of action based on these guidelines with ability to analyse, interpret and modify complicated information

• High level of computer skills such as website management, web publication, communication, document formatting, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to work with a diverse population of faculty, staff, partners and stakeholders

Qualified women are particularly encouraged to apply.

Salary and Benefits

USD 12000 per annumsubject to income tax deduction. Payment will be made in Ethiopian Birr based on the exchange rate at the time of transfer of the money from the donor.

Place of application:

• Haramaya University Cluster Human Resource Management Office, College of Business and Economics Building.
• Haramaya University College of Health and Medical Sciences, Human Resource Management and Development Associate Director Office, No.7 at Harar.
• Haramaya University Liaison Office at Addis Ababa, Arat Kilo. Former Germany Cultural Institute Building Office No.15

Application Deadline:           8 (Eight) working days after the day of advertisement

Haramaya University in collaboration with IOM organized returnees’ reintegration project local capacity building forum at its resource center on 18 January 2020.

While the participants of the forum were elders, aba gadas, religious fathers, youths, and concerned government representatives from16 districts/Woreda in East Harerghe Zone, and other stakeholders; research papers related to migration were presented and discussed.

During the opening ceremony of the forum, Professor Jeylan Wolyie, Vice president for Administrative and Students’ Affairs said thatmigrants probably have 3 main reasons to migrate to abroad.  These reasons are economic, social and political problems which are regarded as push factors, but they face other worse problems during andafter migration; things may not be as expected. When they come back to their home country, they may encounter integration, psychological and economic problems. For this reason, Haramaya University took the initiative to design Returnees reintegration project and to work on it with the society.

Dr. Ketema Bekele, the coordinator of the project, in his turn, said that a number of steps have been done for 147 returnees in the migrants rehabilitation process. After the returnees, for instance, were given psychological makeup and skill based busyness creation idea trainings, they were made to identify which area would be suitable for them to work on it and IOM approved the selected busyness area such as animal fattening and the likes. Dr. Ketema added that, next the support will be offered to them, then following and guidance activities will be performed by Haramaya University with the concerned offices from Zone up to lower government structures.

After hot discussion on presented paper and the realities on the ground, the participants agreed to play their own roles in the process of supporting and rehabilitating the returnees.

ሐረማያ ዪኒቨርሲቲ ከዚህ በታች በተዘረዘሩት ክፍት ስራ መደቦች ላይ ቋሚ ሠራተኞችን አወዳድሮ በቋሚነት ለመመደብ ይፈልጋል፡፡የሐረማያ ዪኒቨርሲቲ ከዚህ በታች በተዘረዘሩት ክፍት ስራ መደቦች ላይ ቋሚ ሠራተኞችን አወዳድሮ በቋሚነት ለመመደብ ይፈልጋል፡፡

የመመዝገቢያ ጊዜ፡- ይህ ማስታወቂያ ከወጣበት ቀን ጀምሮ ባሉት 4 ተከታታይ የስራ ቀናት በዩኒቨርሲቲው ዋና ግቢ ሰው ኃብት ስራ አመራርና ልማት ዳይሬክቶሬት ቢሮ ቁጥር 114 ፤ በሃረር ካምፓስ ሰው ኃብት ስራ አመራርና ልማት ተባባሪ ዳይሬከቶሬት ቢሮ ቁጥር 7 መሆኑን በአክብሮት እንገልጻለን፡፡

ማሳሰቢያ ፡- ማንኛውም መስፈርቱን የሚያሟላ አመልካች በዩኒቨርሲቲው ቋሚ ሰራተኛ ሆኖ ቢያንስ ለ9 ወር በዩኒቨርሲቲው ያገለገለ፣ በስራው የባህሪ አፈጻጸም በተከታታይ ለ2 ጊዜ ተሞልቶ አጥጋቢና ከዚያ በላይ ውጤት ያለው/ላት ፣በተጨማሪም አመልካቾች ለምዝገባ ሲትመጡ የት/ት ማስረጃችሁንና የስራ ልምድ ማስረጃችሁን ኦሪጅናልና አንድ የማይመለስ ፎቶ ኮፒ ይዛችሁ መቅረብ ይኖርባቹሃል፡፡ ከቴክኒክና ሙያ ማሰልጠኛ ተቋም የተመረቃችሁ አመልካቾች የብቃት ማረጋገጫ (COC) ማቅረብ ይጠበቅባችሁዋል፡፡

HaramayaUniversity Office of Vice president for Community Engagement and Enterprise Development organized an internal guideline review workshop for Community Engagement, University-Industry Linkage and Entrepreneurship development at the university resource centeron February 13, 2020.

The participants of the workshop were invited from different colleges and reviewers from different colleges and places.

At the workshop opening remarks, Professor Kebede W/Tsadik, vice president for community Engagement and Enterprise Development, said that the University has not, so far, had a clear and well-structured guideline for University-Industry-Linkage and Entrepreneurship development. As professor Kebede said, the main reason why the university needs this guideline is to strengthen partnerships and collaborations between Haramaya University, and industries and other key stakeholders through staff exchange and students’ engagement. He added that enriching the guideline helps the University to create a formal, agreement based, smooth, and mutually beneficial relationship with the stakeholders.

After the prepared Guideline Document had been presented by Dr. Mitiku Eshetu, Director for University-Industry Linkage and Entrepreneurship Development, and Mr. Abdulahi Adem, Associate Director for University-Industry Linkage and Entrepreneurship Development, the reviewers presented their constructive comments on the presented document. Finally, the whole participants of the workshop vividly discussed the guideline.

It was also noted that other workshop will be arranged for external guideline review in the presence of external stakeholders.

Sustain Dialogue Project conducted the 2019/2020 academic year kickoff program at Afrenkello hall on February 15, 2020.

Mr. Robel Damte, the project program manager, said that the project is financially supported by USAID and applied in collaborating with Life and Peace Institute (LPI), and Peace and Development Center. Mr. Robel added that this project has been applied for the last six years, in six Ethiopia Universities including Haramaya University and other sixty Universities around the world and the aim of the project is to maintain peace in Universities by facilitating conducive environment to create and raise a mutual understanding among students who come from different cultural backgrounds, religions and language, through listening respecting one an others’ valid human claims to bring changes by achieving all this. According to Mr. Robel, the built relationship inside the groups positively impacts others outside the groups. The project mission is being accomplished for a year through fifty groups of eleven members each with the help of experienced group leaders.

According to moderators, Yeshemebet Degif, 3^rd year software engineering student and Abdulkerem Adem 3^rd year computer science student, the sustain dialogue program is playing wonderful role in creating and raising a mutual understanding for respecting one another and to construct a sense of family despite their differences. The moderators also said that the project has produced and is producing critical and peace promoting students, but the number of the participating students is limited to only six hundred in a year; it would be better if the participant’s number increased more than this.

Africa Center of Excellence for Climate Smart Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation (ACE Climate-SABC) of Haramaya University held the 1^st Cohort Open Defense Examination of Master’s candidates from 7-8 February 2020 at Resource Center.

Two of the external examiners, making up the examining committee, came from abroad. A defense exercise conducted with such professional mix is instrumental in maintaining the quality of the thesis research work, and the postgraduate teaching in general.

According to Dr. Mulugeta Damie, Project Manager of ACE Climate-SABC, such open defense examination is one of the major activities put up on the annual plan of ACE Climate-SABC academic calendar. Dr. Tesfaye Lemma, Training and Research Head of the Center, said such activities primarily serve as a check and balance to ensure the quality of theses research works which are currently being carried out by the postgraduate students of the Center.

ACE Climate-SABC regional students come from Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia; of which 11 were female and 8 males. All the postgraduate students defended their research works successfully.

College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) in collaboration with the Vice-president for Research Affairs Office conducted a two-day training on Demand/Market-Led Plant Breeding for Plant Breeders, Physiologist, Nutritionists, Protectionists, Socio-economists, and Extensions from February 21-22, 2020 at Resource Center.

In his opening speech, Prof. Mengistu Urge, Delegate Vice-president for Academic Affairs, said that “The University will continue to play a key role to improve the quality of both research and academics on Demand/Market-Led Plant Breeding identifying problems and finding solutions to the problems.”

Dr. Firew Mekbib, trainer and Dr. Zelalem Bekeko, Dean of CAES, stated that a Demand-Led Plant Breeding (DLB) is the art and science of plant breeding globally both in the private and public breeding program. It is an objective, impacting, value chain-based and game-changing approach. The approach has been propagated throughout Africa for the last four years. It has received an impressive feedback from various stakeholders across the value chain field. In order to reap the benefits from DLB in Ethiopia, training was given to the program leaders and senior breeders at the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research. Haramaya University being a Center of Excellence in Agriculture and Environmental Science, it is imperative to update its staff in the DLB approach for enhancing its research and academic excellence in plant breeding.

The general objective of the training was to train staff in DLB for adoption of the approach in both research and academics.

In the two-day training, a total of 60 plant breeders, physiologist, nutritionists, protectionists, socio-economists, and extensions workers participated.

Many relevant questions were raised and discussed by the participants of the training. Participants also presented their outputs from the group discussion they had.

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Sustain Dialogue Project conducted the 2019/2020 academic year kickoff program at Afrenkello hall on February 15, 2020.

Mr. Robel Damte, the project program manager, said that the project is financially supported by USAID and applied in collaborating with Life and Peace Institute (LPI), and Peace and Development Center. Mr. Robel added that this project has been applied for the last six years, in six Ethiopia Universities including Haramaya University and other sixty Universities around the world and the aim of the project is to maintain peace in Universities by facilitating conducive environment to create and raise a mutual understanding among students who come from different cultural backgrounds, religions and language, through listening respecting one an others’ valid human claims to bring changes by achieving all this. According to Mr. Robel, the built relationship inside the groups positively impacts others outside the groups. The project mission is being accomplished for a year through fifty groups of eleven members each with the help of experienced group leaders.

According to moderators, Yeshemebet Degif, 3^rd year software engineering student and Abdulkerem Adem 3^rd year computer science student, the sustain dialogue program is playing wonderful role in creating and raising a mutual understanding for respecting one another and to construct a sense of family despite their differences. The moderators also said that the project has produced and is producing critical and peace promoting students, but the number of the participating students is limited to only six hundred in a year; it would be better if the participant’s number increased more than this.

Haramaya University’s Vice President for Research Affairs Office in collaboration with US Fulbright Scholars commenced a 2-day Training program on ‘Grant Writing, Scholarly Writing and Open Access and Partnership’ at the main campus.  About 70 academicians, researchers and postgraduate students are participating in the training aimed to acquaint them with the current research writing methodologies and grant writing.

At the opening ceremony, Dr. Awol Seid, Director for Research Groups and Partnerships Directorate, in his welcoming speech, said “Winning a grant is very competitive and demands up to dated skills and have become a matter of common urgency for the higher learning institution of the world particularly for Africa.”  He mentioned that the office is dedicated to organize such training sessions for academicians, researchers and postgraduate students in partnership with local and international partners. 

The opening speaker, Professor Jeylan Wolyie, Vice President for Administration and Students Affairs addressed that “Universities are sites of science communication. University scholars face therefore, increasing pressure regarding their productivity in science communication and knowledge advancement.” He added that, without adequate communicative proficiency in science communication, it is difficult for the academician to reveal the scientific validity, methodological rigor, meta-analytical depth and ethical standards of our works. Therefore, Haramaya University, considering the current demand for scholarly contribution to the community, has organized the training in partnership with Fulbright Scholars.

The Gust trainers are from US Fulbright Scholars, Dr. Daniel Gelawu; faculty member of University of North Texas and Fulbright scholar in Addis Ababa University, Dr. Enjil Ford; Vice President of the International Society of Educational Planning and a Fulbright scholar at Addis Ababa University, Dr. Tara Welfung; currently working as a Fulbright scholar at Haramaya University and Dr. Adiss Kidan; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of south Carolina, currently working as a Fulbright scholar at Addis Ababa University. The training will focus on Grant Writing, Scholarly Writing and Open Access and will continue until March 14, 2020.

Vice President for Research Affairs Office organized a training of trainers (TOT) for 45 District Agricultural Experts from 15 Districts in East Haraghe, Dire Dawa Administration, and Harari Regional State on ‘irrigation water development and management, Nutrition sensitive agriculture and Post harvest Management’ at the University’s resource center for three days, in March/2020.

The training was organized following the need assessment and identified four topics; Irrigation and Water use efficiency, Nutrition-sensitive agriculture, plant disease management, and post-harvest management. The purpose of the training was to build the capacity of district agricultural experts in the selected topics.

Dr. Chanyalew Seyoum, Delegated Vice President for Research Affairs, in his opening speech said that, food and nutrition insecurity remains a major challenge in Eastern Ethiopia and the magnitude of under-nutrition is higher compared to other parts of the country. He added that, the training also aimed at improving knowledge and skill of experts, facilitate co-learning between district agriculture offices and the university and establish good network with stakeholders in East Hararghe. That in return will contribute to the successful implementation of outreach activities of the University.

The trainees also expressed their gratitude the University for organizing the training. Besides, they explained that they will use the platform as an opportunity to provide trainings and share what they have got in farmer’s field in their respective district, Mr. Moges Abate from Babile Woreda, and Mr. Beker Abdulahi from Hareri region.

In addition to the ToT, there was a panel discussion for a half day. During the discussion, inputs for further research, new challenges in agriculture practices due to climate change, scholarship opportunities and capacity building for agriculture experts were some of the concerns forwarded from trainees. Dr. Chanyalew, reflected on the issues and give emphasis to the office’s dedication for further capacity building activities including scholarships.

College of Business and Economics (CBE) in collaboration with Industry Linkage & Entrepreneurship Development Directorate of Haramaya University conducted the 1st National Conference on Unemployment, Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation in Ethiopia from 13-14 March 2020 at Resource Center.

Mr. Henock Semaw, Dean of CBE, said that “The University is working on the issues of enhancing Unemployment, Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation in Ethiopia in general and specifically in the Eastern part of the country.”

In his opening speech, Prof. Jeylan Wolyie, President Office Delegate and Vice-president for Administrative and Student Affairs, said that “The theme of conference is vital and timely.”

Prof. Jeylan in his remark emphasized on “the University’s commitment to do its level best to put into effect the ideas deliberated on the conference and to work towards strategically addressing the issues raised through building on the collaborations it has developed so far”.

The general objective of the Conference was creating a dialogue platform for academia, policy makers, NGOs, Industries and other stakeholders to deliberate on policies for unemployment reduction and entrepreneurship development.

A delegate from the Jobs Creation Commission under the Prime Minister’s Office, Mrs. Alemtsehay Legesse, Director for Innovative Jobs and Projects, shared her office’s programs and projects and deliberated on the collaboration areas with the academics.

About eight speakers presented papers focusing on the national contexts pertaining to the practical challenges and prospects of unemployment and entrepreneurship. All presenters emphasized that the partnership between stakeholders is a cornerstone in enhancing solutions to the problems of unemployment, entrepreneurship development and innovation in our country.

Following the presentations, the participants had discussions on the core issues presented and suggested viable solutions toward curbing the intact challenges.

In the two-day conference more than 110 university representatives, researchers, governmental and NGO’s and Industrialists participated.