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Jimma University…
□Located in south western part of the country,
in Jimma town, 352 kms outside Addis Ababa
□Established during the first wave HE
expansion, in 1997; the constituent institutions
are much older, 27 and 55 years
□Has four campuses (Main campus, Business
and Economics, Agriculture and Veterinary
Medicine, and Kito Furdisa), all in Jimma town;
University Teaching Hospital is part of the
main campus; Agaro Campus (soon coming)
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Jimma University…
□ A leading and rapidly growing university in Ethiopia
□ National and regional vision of leadership and
excellence
□ Hosts 57 bachelor’s, 119 masters and 17 PhD
programs
□ Jimma University is the national pioneer in CBE
□ Motto: we are in the community
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Jimma University: Location
Jimma
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Campuses
Main Campus
Main
campus
JUCAVM
College of Agric. &
Vet Medicine
Institute of
Technology
College of Business &
Economics
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Community Based education (CBE) framework
Community
Rural
community
University
Business
organizations
Service and
extension
Teaching
Teaching
and learning
Industry
CBE
Urban
Dwellers
Research
and
scholarship
CBOs
Public
organizations
NGOs
CSOs
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Figures: Student population (2014/15)
Level of study
Male
Female
Total
Undergraduate
27036
10147
37183
Postgraduate diploma
1078
296
1374
Graduate (Masters)
3776
477
4253
PhD
99
8
107
Total
31989
10928
42917
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2016
Figures: Staff population (2014/15)
Level of study
Male
Female
Total
Faculty
1358
180
1538
Ethiopian
1278
167
1445
Expatriate
80
13
93
2996
1930
4926
54
13
67
4408
2123
6531
Admin. and health prof.
Technical assistants
Total
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Teaching colleges and institutes
□ College of Health Sciences
□ College of Business and Economics
□ Institute of Technology
□ College of Agriculture and Vet Medicine
□ College of Natural Sciences
□ College of Social Sciences
□ College of Education and Behavioral Sciences
□ College of Law and Governance
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2016
Research institutes and centers
□ Institute of Health Sciences Research (IHSR)-HDSS
□ Tropical and Infectious Diseases Research
Center (TIDRC))
□ Institute of Biotechnology (IOB)
 Molecular biology Lab
 Mycobacteriology Research Lab
□ National Center for Drug Quality (CDQ)
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Research institutes…
□ Center for Soil Transmitted (STH) Helminthes
Research
□ International Institute of Coffee Research (IICR)
□ Institute of Oromo Studies (IOS)
□ International Center for Monitoring and Evaluation
(ICME)
□ Ethiopian Institute for Resilience and Climate Change
Adaptation (EIRCCA)
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Program theme of JU VLIR-IUC
Investigating the Impact of the Gilgel
Gibe Dam: A Multidisciplinary Approach
towards capacity Building
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JU-IUC Timeline
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Sharing values
Audere Sapiens
Dare to Think
We are in the
Community
Sharing Minds
Changing lives
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Achievements of the IUC program
Human capacity
building
Infrastructure
Academic
programs
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Achievements…
Scientific
outputs
Networking
Image and
reputation
Development
contribution
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2016
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Network members and organization
Ethiopian universities
Flemish universities
Hawassa
University
KUL
Hogescholen
Hasselt
University
COVMA
AAU
Jimma
University
University
of Gent
University
of Antwerp
Ambo
University
VUB
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Local partner universities
Ambo
Jimma
University
COVMA
Hawass
University
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Premises for the network program
Experiences
of IUC
program
JU
strategic
plan
GTP II
Network
program
Local partner
universities
plan
(UCBHE)
VLIR
country
strategy
ESDP V
HSDP V
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Themes for Ethiopia in country strategy
Food Security
and
agriculture
Environment
and water
Economic
and social
development
Health
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Why health?
□ Health in general and infectious diseases and nutrition are
major public health threats in Ethiopia.
□ Four of the five research projects in IUC program were
dealing with human and animal health
□ Many centers of excellence that can support health
science education and research were established
□ Three joint PhD programs initiated recently by IUC
program, namely, infectious diseases, human nutrition
and environmental health and ecology
□ Relevance and synergy with to partner universities
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Projects in the program
There are the projects under the network program:
□ Project 1: Enhancing infectious diseases education and
research in Ethiopia
□ Project 2: Better child health and growth through
nutrition sensitive agriculture
□ Project 3: Transversal: statistics and information
management (statistics, ICT and library)
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Program objectives
Academic
objectives
Developmental
objectives
• Improve access to and quality of graduate education
• Generate scientific evidence and technology through
collaborative research
• Building capacity of partner universities
• Strengthen the higher education sector of the country
• Reduce burden of infectious diseases and nutritional
disorders
• Contribute to better health in Ethiopia
National
development
goals
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Approaches and strategies
□ Leveraging experience and capacity developed during IUC
years
□ Joint PhD programs and co-promoting PhD candidates
□ Engaging in collaborative research into priority issues and
informing national policy through scientific evidence and
products
□ Networking with institutions, organizations and the
community for synergy, complementarities and sust.
□ Dissemination: publication, seminars, workshops and
conferences
□ Sharing resources, skill and experiences with partner
universities in north and south
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Our expectations for the matchmaking
□ Adherence to principles of equal partnership
□ Reciprocity (mutually beneficial)
□ Availability of interest and capacity
□ Commitment to north-south collaboration
□ Time to participate in the collaboration
□ Institutional support and ownership
□ Addressing issues of gender
□ Flexibility to exploit opportunities and address challenges
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What do we bring to the table?
□ A good track record in managing collaborative projects
including IUC
□ Multidisciplinary setting and a comprehensive institution
that has nearly all programs
□ Modestly equipped research infrastructure and field sites
□ Passion and energy
□ Huge government commitment and rapidly expanding
higher education sector
□ Network of collaborations and partnerships
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Issues we considered in the program
□ Turnover of senior faculty
□ Ensuring commitment and optimum collaboration from
partner universities in the north and south.
□ Procurement and supply chain management of research
inputs
□ Multiple responsibility and workload on key personnel
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‘The only time that we win is when we
come together…’
Democratic National Convention in July 1988
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Overview of the project
□ Infectious diseases contribute to the large proportion of
morbidity, mortality and disability in Ethiopia
□ Call for trained human power to overcome this development
menace
□ This Needs establishment of Network University
Collaboration (NUC)
□ JU will serve as a hub in the network to support build the
capacity of partner institutions
Overview…
□Infectious diseases have been the main research
topics in the IUC program
□ JU launched a joint PhD program in Tropical and
Infectious Diseases
□ JU will carry out multiplication of capacity building
efforts based on priority theme of the country strategy
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Key Components of the Activities
□ Capacity building of partner institutions through joint MSc
and PhD training programs on infectious diseases
□ Conduct collaborative research with partner institutions to
develop new or improved technologies or tools for
surveillance, detection, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and
control of infectious diseases
□ Develop curricula to launch joint MSc and PhD programs
□ Set up or strengthen research facilities at the local partner
institutions
□ Joint grant proposal writing for funding for collaborative
research
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Proposed research themes
□ VLIR-UOS country strategy for Ethiopia had identified
health as a national area of priority sector
□ Main research themes will be but not limited to on:

Epidemiology, pathogenesis and control of infectious
diseases such as Malaria, TB/HIV and NTDs

Emerging, Resurging, Re-emerging infectious diseases
due to societal, environmental and climate changes
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Participation of North Partners
□ Joint curricula development
□ Joint mentorship of MSc and PhD students
□ Offering courses and training on transferable skills for MSc
and PhD students
□ Collaborative research
□ Training on grant proposals and writing joint competitive
grant proposals and student exchange
□ Setting up research facilities
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Project leader: Delenasaw Yewhalaw (PhD)
Jimma University,
P.Obox 5195
Jimma, University
Tel: +251 917 80 43 52
E-Mail:delenasaw.yewhalaw@ju.edu.etOR
delenasawye@yahoo.com
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Better child health and growth through
nutrition sensitive agriculture
By Prof. Tefera Belachew (Project leader)
Overview of the project
□ Although there are several efforts in reducing
childhood malnutrition, stunting had become
pervasively high in Ethiopia.
□ The first “1000 days window of opportunity” starting
from intrauterine life to 24 months after delivery
□ Following the Global consensus, the multi-sectoral
approach of the revised national nutrition program of
Ethiopia calls for nutrition sensitive intervcention.
How it Linked with the IUC Program
• capacity of the JU=== >it is logical to think more at
the national level and fit into the VLIR’s country
program to have more a resonance/spinoff effect .
•This project addresses one of the thematic areas
identified by the VLIR as a priority country strategy
for Ethiopia, “The Health”.
• It is also in accord with the national strategic direction
of creating south-to-south collaboration between
universities in the country.
Proposed Areas/Themes of Research
1. Improving dietary diversity and Nutrient density through promotion of
nutrition sensitive agriculture and aquaculture.
 Soil and plant zinc content and zinc status of children
 Growth highland fruits and backyard vegetable gardening and
consumption enhancement on child health and nutritional status
 Effect of promotion of fish /other animal source food
complementary food on child health and growth
 Effect of optimizing indigenous(Local) food processing techniques
(fermentation, germination, blending…) to enhance nutrient
bioavailability
2. Examining the effect of local production of nutrient dense complementary
foods through the small scale and micro enterprises of women on child on
the morbidity and linear growth of children
3. Evaluation of Addition of zinc into fertilizer + consumption enhancement
on the morbidity and linear growth of children
 Eexpected outcomes of these projects are enhancing Child health,
growth / Child development and Survival.
How can North Partners Participate?
□Joint supervision of PhDs
□Collaborative research project
□Staff exchange and teaching(Visiting
professor)
□Double degree programs for PhDs
□Sharing of Laboratory.....
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Project leader name and contact:
Prof. Dr. Tefera Belachew
Email: teferabelachew@gmail.com
Telephone: 251917804072
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Statistics, ICT and library
Overview
Introduce affordable technologies to improve
services
Share existing technologies with other universities in
the network
Introduce new technologies
Effective management and monitoring of ICT
Services
Introduce advanced technologies to support
scientific research
Facilitate sharing of digital resources
Use elearning and affordable digital classrooms
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to improve Byteaching/learning
experience
Link with IUC
Capacity on using open-source tools is already
built through the IUC program
Most of the planned activities have roots in the
IUC
DSpace is configured for JU.
In this project, we will work with other universities to
enable “Federated Search from Different
databases”
Members are well aware of the IUC
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Activities
Integrating affordable technologies to improve university services
Promote free and open source software usage
Introduce new free tools to use for services
Effective Management and Monitoring of ICT services
Monitor all hardware and software resources using open source
tools
Integrate monitoring tools with existing applications
Introduce Advanced Technologies to support Scientific Research
Build capacity of ICT Staff on new scientific technologies and tools
Introduce private cloud solutions
Introduce High Performance Computing Solutions
Facilitate Sharing of Digital Resources
Build institutional repositories in the member universities
Build application to enable federated search of resources
eLearning and Affordable Digital Classrooms
Build 'affordable' smart classrooms
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Introduce eLearning in selected departments by involving faculty
Expectation from North Partners
Active participation in human capacity building
Share expertise and best practices
Train professionals
Assist in building solutions
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Project leader:
Girum Ketema Teklemariam
Director, ICT Development
Jimma University
Jimma, Ethiopia
Girum.ketema@ju.edu.et
girum.ketema@intec.ugent.be
+251-911-725-217 (Mob. Et.)
+32-48-512-7384 (Mob. Be.)
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‘The only time that we win is when we
come together…’
Democratic National Convention in July 1988
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