Director’s Message

Community Based Education (CBE) is the philosophy of Jimma University through which training, research and service are integrated. To this end Jimma University aspires to be the leading higher education institute in the above three mandate areas. It is a means of achieving educational relevance to community needs and consists of learning activities that uses the community extensively as a learning environment. Community-based education fosters interdependence and leads toward educational and community practices that have the potential to impact people on a global scale. In Ethiopia, the history of CBE is linked to the history of health professionals’ training. Systematic and organized effort to introduce and implement CBE was pioneered by Jimma University. The former JIHS was established in 1983 with the concept of opening a new type of school whose academic system is built on the philosophy of CBE through a pragmatic integration of training, research and service. The training programs at JU integrated CBE in the curricula of all programs. Currently in all colleges and Institutes at the University, CBE is incorporated in all of the curricula in both the undergraduate and postgraduate programs to address core academic activities as teaching/learning, research and to deliver services to the community at large. The activities are viewed not as a peripheral or casual experience but as a standard, integral and continual educational process. To implement its core mandate through community based education (CBE), the university has developed the following strategies: Community Based Training Program (CBTP); Development Team Training Program (DTTP/TTP); and Student Research Programs (SRP). Jimma University is currently exerting efforts towards improving its strategy of implementing CBE to contribute in solving community development or felt needs problems. We hope you get the fascinating experiences of community based education (CBE) at Jimma University if you go through this website.

Prof., Dr.-Ing Esayas Alemayehu (PhD, P.E.)
Director, Community Based Education
E-mail: esayas.alemayehu@ju.edu.et
bfnesayas@gmail.com
Tel. +251 917017002(Mobile);
Fax: +251471112214,
P.O.Box 378, Jimma, Ethiopia