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ARSI UNIVERSITY Community Service & University-industry Linkage Directorate

Briefing some activities of Community Services for KOICA consultative meeting

November 28/2016 Asella

IN INTRODUCTION

• Arsi University was established at end of 2014.
• Currently the University has 5 colleges and one School.
• There are around 9156 undergraduate students ,and 853 post

graduate students

• Academic Staff Profile
• Total number of academic staffs are 656, among these,
• Staff on duty:
• Ph .D holder :69
• MSc/MA holder :378
• BSc/BA : 20
• Staff on study leave
• For PhD: 116
• For specialty: 54
• For MSc/MA : 19

INTRODUCTION... Cont’d

Since its establishment, 2014, Arsi university has been carried out various community service activities to achieve the following goals: To improve the livelihoods of the community by Training competent and responsive professionals who can address the community’s problems through innovative and practical means. To contribute to societal development by providing services, consultancy and through training of responsive professionals. To strengthen partnerships and linkages with local and national institutions for the purpose of rendering community services.

 Accordingly, demand driven and multidisciplinary community services have been given for communities of the Arsi Zone and

• ther nearby zones.

Generally, community services have been provided in areas of:

• Health aspects of the society

 Maternal and children health care

 Cervical Cancer Screening Service for women of vulnerable age groups (21-65 years)

 Hygiene and Sanitation  Nutrition  HIV AIDS Prevention and Control  Strengthening health extension , etc

• Agriculture and Environment
• Improving dairy production and Productivity
• Improving Animal feed and feeding
• Integrated poultry , fish and Vegetables
• Promotion and Distribution of transitional and Modern bee hives for

farmers

• Enhancing Highland crop production and productivity
• Promotion of vermi-compost technology
• Water shed Management in the Ziway lake and surrounding areas
• Value chain Management of Dairy, vegetables, and tubers
• Poverty reduction in rural areas

• Education
• Life skills training for female students of High school and

preparatory schools

• Technical and financial Support of high schools
• Business and Economics
• Entrepreneurship
• Strengthening Micro and Small enterprises
• Procurement
• Eco-tourism
• Free Legal Services
• Till now the centres served for more than 36,258 persons and the

service is estimated to be about 12,500,000.00 Birr.

Community service activities have been done in areas of health includes:

• a. Post Natal Care
• Provision
• f

Home based postnatal services by midwives.

• Promotion
• f

early identification and referral/ management of emergencies for mother and newborns.

• Awareness creation
• f postnatal service

utilization to the community.

• Strength the capacity of health extension

workers’ ability on postnatal services provision

• 2. Tuberculosis Case Detection and control of

its transmission

• Training
• f

Health Extension Workers, community Leaders, Health Sector Workers Representative to intensify Tuberculosis Case Detection and its control

Optical Services at the University Hospital collaboration with NGOs from abroad

Capacity building training for development agents on artificial insemination.

Malt barley variety under test for Community service

Malt Barley variety under test for Community service

Performance of the Malt barely verity under test

Macaroni and pasta wheat variety under test for community service

Training for crop seed producer cop. farmers

Integrated solid waste Collection, segregation and urban greening

Supplying Solar cooker & Solar panel introducing its implementation in rural Woreda in poverty reduction & technology provision project

Participatory Chocolate spot (Botrytis fabae Sard) Management of Faba Bean Through Host Resistance, Intercropping and Fungicide Applications in the Arsi Highlands areas

Creating farmers’ Awareness on the benefits inter cropping system of small cereals with some high land legume crops in high land area

Ziway Lake watershed Management (Katar, 60%, Meki 40%)

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Bu-i Meki Tora Dugda Koshe Gonde Keber Asela Kersa Ogokho Digelu Sagure Bekoji Butajira Kondaltiti Ziway Abosa Adami Tulu

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Kilometers

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Town Road Stream Ziway Lake

Elevation

Value

High : 4176.28 Low : 1636.12 Watershed

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Site identified for Ziway Lake watershed management (Kaka Mountain, Katar river, Ziway Lake)

Areas of Collaboration

• Health aspects of the society
• Agricultural Transformation
• Environmental Protection
• Ziway Lake watershed Management
• Rural Poverty reduction
• Education
• Business and Economics
• Eco-tourism

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!