SUMMARY OF CURRENT ACTIVITIES:
SUMMARY OF CURRENT ACTIVITIES:
The Development and Capacity Building Institute (DCBI) has a distinguished record in training teachers, researchers and other professionals from all regions of Ethiopia. Currently, DCBI in collaboration with Howard University and Ministry of Education is conducting an intensive one month training and upgrading programs for 400 high school teachers in English, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. The Project is funded to Howard University and DCBI by the Banyan Tree Foundation.
Through several strategic initiatives, DCBI has participated in the development processes in Ethiopia, particularly through programs designed to develop the country's educational and health capacity building programs, health delivery systems, and technology transfer in areas vital to the foster excellent working relations and firm bonds between DCBI members and Ethiopians. The ensuing close interaction with several universities and institutions in Ethiopia are testament to the unique role that DCBI must continue to play in Ethiopia.
DCBI is a partner in the University Development Linkages Projects (UDLP)
with US universities and universities in Ethiopia. Through Institution-to-Institution
linkages and alliances, joint educational and technical programs may result
in mutual benefits to the United States and Ethiopia. Through technology
transfer, and student-faculty exchanges, the educational levels and literacy
rate of the nation will be elevated. New programs designed to raise the
health care delivery levels in Ethiopia are being developed(i.e. the first
Physician Assistant Program in Africa jointly developed between Howard
University School of Allied Health, DCBI and the Health Officers Institute
of Ethiopia).
Because of damages due to deforestation, massive land erosion, and
creeping desertification, Ethiopia lost its capability to feed its population.
By developing and applying methods of forestation with nitrogen fixing
tree legumes, land preservation, land reclamation and ultimately increased
food production may be achieved. Therefore, DCBI in collaboration with the
University of Mekele, in Ethiopia has developed a UDLP project, entitled:
Use of Biological Nitrogen Fixcation for Sustained Agricultural Productivity
in Northern Ethiopia. The outcome from this research could help prevent
soil erosion, rejuvenate the natural vegetation, maintain long term productivity
and reduce dependence on imported fertilizers.
The scourges of malaria and sleeping sickness have wreaked death and economic destruction to human and animal populations in various countries in the world. Malaria has reached epidemic levels in lowland regions of Ethiopia where hundreds of thousands of people die or are debilitated each year because of this disease. In Southern Ethiopia and the river valley regions trypanosomiasis and tsetse fly caused destruction to animals, livestock, especially working oxen, have resulted in economic havoc to the country. Since 1995, Howard Univesity faculty and DCBI scientists have been involved in state-of-the-art research on both malaria and sleeping sickness in Ethiopia. The infrastructure already exists for continuation of this research in PPI laboratories at Addis Ababa and Mekele. With the use of modern molecular biological techniques, these problems are being studied with the aim of eliminating the malaria parasite-vector(Anopheles) and the trypanosome-vector (tsetse) from Ethioph. To continue this research activity DCBI in collaboration ICIPE have developed a research proposal entitled: Design and Development of Biological1y-Effective and Environmentally Friendly Vector Control Strategies for Malaria and Trypanosomiasis.
In the 21st Century World, information super-highway and mass media
are vital for a nation to successfully compete in a highly complex and
rapidly changing world. Through collaboration between Howard University
School of Communication, Ethiopian Mass Media Training Institute (MMTl),
and DCBI preliminary steps are already underway to help bridge gaps in vital
role of communication in the democratization process. Conseguently. the
UDLP grant entitled, Enhancing and Sustaining the Democratization Process
Through Communication Research and Training: a collaborative project between
the MMI of Ethiopia, DCBI, Addis Ababa University and Howard University,
is pivotal to Ethiopia's development as a democratic society. The four
UDLP Projects developed by DCBI and its collaborating institutions are essential
for upgrading and modernizing mass media training and applications, health
care delivery, land reclamation and food production, and effective elimination
of two of the most devastating parasitic diseases in Ethiopia can be implemented
in many SubSaharan African nations.
Introduction
Mission
Project
Experience
Summary
of Current Activities
Accomplishments
of DCBI Scientists in Ethiopia
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