Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services

IMPACT. 1: In 2015 we served over 3,500 individuals through programs and services that encourage sustained employment, education, wellness, community integration, and family support services. -- 2. Serves over 1,100 youth ages 5 through 24 -- 3. Adult employment: 459.OSU PARTNERS: College of Education and Human EcologyCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: New American Community; Impact CollaborativePRIMARY CONTACT: Seleshi Ayalew Asfaw ([email protected])To help facilitate new Americans integrate to central Ohio through after school tutoring, summer camp, summer employment, leadership and mentoring, employment, ESOL, civic forums and domestic violence

Community engagement education in academic health centers, colleges, and universities

Community engagement (CE) is critical for advancing health equity and a key approach for promoting inclusive clinical and translational science. However, it requires a workforce trained to effectively design, implement, and evaluate health promotion and improvement strategies through meaningful collaboration with community members. This paper presents an approach for designing CE curricula for research, education, clinical care, and public health learners. A general pedagogical framework is presented to support curriculum development with the inclusion of community members as facilitators or faculty. The overall goal of the curriculum is envisioned as enabling learners to effectively demonstrate the principles of CE in working with community members on issues of concern to communities to promote health and well-being. We highlight transformations needed for the commonly used critical service-learn- ing model and the importance of faculty well-versed in CE. Courses may include didactics and practicums with well-defined objectives and evaluation components. Because of the importance of building and maintaining relationships in CE, a preparatory phase is recommended prior to experiential learning, which should be guided and designed to include debriefing and reflec- tive learning. Depending on the scope of the course, evaluation should include community perspectives on the experience

Characterization, assessment of the performance and causes of underperformance of irrigation in Ethiopia

This paper provides study results of irrigation in Ethiopia. Broad performances criteria for national and regional levels of irrigation are established. The national performance according to functioning schemes, command area size and number of beneficiaries as compared to design targets are 87%, 74% and 47%, respectively. These values vary among regions, where Oromia has the best overall performance, with 95% of schemes functioning, 83% of planned area irrigated and 71% of planned beneficiaries seeing benefit. Factors of underperformance related to technical, institutional and support services are identified, and frequency and importance are evaluated for cases of Oromia and Southern Regions