Department: Social work

Hunde Doja

  • Personal Information
  • Full Name: Hunde Doja Biratu
  • Title:Mr
  • Nationality: Ethiopian
  • Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
  • Field of Specialization: MA in Counseling Psychology
  • Department/Team: School of Social Work
  • College/Institute: Social Sciences and Humanities

      2 Publications

  • Hunde Doja (2020). Being and becoming street child: Causes, challenges and opportunities (FC Jimma branch in focus). AGATHOS, Volume 11, Issue 1 (20): 216-230
  • Wario Wako, Firehiwot Jabessa, Hunde Doja, and Nega Jibat. (2022). Agents and Strategies of Children’s Socialization in the Gadaa System of Borana Oromo, Southern Ethiopia. j.soc.lang.stud. Vol. 9.No.1, P.p.101-112
  • Alemayehu Gebru , Hunde Doja Doja.(2021) . Exploring the challenges of social work education from field education perspective in Ethiopia: The case of four public Universities. j.soc.lang.stud. Vol. 8. .No.1, pp. 79-89
  • Hunde Doja and Tadele Duressa (2019). Factors Affecting Social Accountability in Service Providing Public Sectors: Exploring Beneficiaries’ Perspectiv es in Jimma Zone. Research, Society and Development, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 01-18, 2019
  • Abiru Neme, Tesfaye Eticha and Hunde Doja (2020). Reproductive Health Needs and Service Utilization by Youths in Dilfana Kebele, Arbaminch Town, Gamo Gofa Zone, Ethiopia. EC Gynaecology 9.8 (2020): 10-22.

Publications on Process

  • Wario Wako, Firehiwot Jabessa, Hunde Doja and Nega Jibat (2020). Children’s socialization in the cultural context of Borana Oromo: Its values and features
  • Tadele Duressa, Hunde Doja and Nega Jibat (2020). Disputes Over Access to Land Access and Its Alternative Resolution Mechanisms in Rural Oromia: Jimma Rare District in Focus (Co-investigator)
  • Asayebrahan Kastro, Nolawit Teshome and Hunde Doja (2019). Person with Disability: Challenges, Opportunities and threats in Some selected Public Universities
  • Alemayehu Gebru and Hunde Doja, (2022). Exploring the opportunities of social work education from field education perspective in Ethiopia: The case of four public Universities. j.soc.lang.stud.
  • Hunde Doja and Lidia Assegid (2021). Positive Youth Development Nexus Substance Use in Five Public Universities of Ethiopia
  • Hunde Doja, Sirgut Mohammed and Tulu Hajji (2020). The Experience of Stigma and Psychosocial Need of People with Leprosy: the Case of Jimma Town, GinjoSub district
  • Alemayehu Gebru, Wario Wako, Hunde Doja and Addisalem Taye (2022). The Role of the Community in Managing Crisis of COVID-19 Pandemic: The case of Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia.
  • Research Interests
  • Children, Youth, Family, Elderly, Women, Disability, Migration, Substance Use/Addiction, Health and Psychosocial Related Issues
  • Contact Details
  • Email: jitudoja@gmail.com/hunde.doja@ju.edu.et,
  • Tel: +251913393872, 
  • O.Box 378
  • Office:+251472115437
  • BOX: 378, Jimma University, Ethiopia

 

 

Wubshet Hailu

  1. Personal Information
  • Full Name: Wubshet Hailu Fufa              
  • Title
  • Nationality Ethiopian
  • Academic Rank Lecturer
  • Department School of Social Work
  • College/Institute : Social Sciences and Humanities
  1. Publications
  2. https://journals.ju.edu.et/index.php/ejssls/issue/view/216/Migrant%20Returnees
  3. Research Interests
  • Thematic Areas: (Family, Children, Youth, Indigenous knowledge-skills and values from social work practice points of view, Migration and Criminology
  1. Contact Details

Alemayehu Gebru

  1. Personal Information
  • Full Name: Alemayehu Gebru Gebremariam
  • Title:Mr
  • Nationality Ethiopian
  • Academic Rank: Lecturer
  • Department: School of Social Work
  • College/Institute College of Social Sciences and Humanities
  1. Publications
  2. GEBRU, Alemayehu, (2020). Psychosocial Impacts of Covid-19 Lockdown and Coping Strategies of the Community, Jimma University, Southwest Ethiopia, AJSW, Volume 10Number 32020 Special Issue on COVID-19
  3. Gebru, A., Berhanu, Z. and Hajji, T. (2021) Discharge planning and post-discharge follow-up care practice in psychiatry department at Jimma Medical Center, Ethiopia. African Journal of Social Work, 11(2),52-59
  4. Wario Wako and Alemayehu Gebru (2020). Exploring the role of social work in correctional setting: Jimma zone correctional center, Ethiopia. j.soc.lang.stud. Vol. 7.No.2, pp.61-70.
  5. Gebru, A. and Wako, W. (2021). Female university students lived experiences of COVID-19 lockdown: the case of JimmaUniversity, Southwest Ethiopia. Journal of Development Administration (JDA), 6(3), 97 – 105.
  6. Alemayehu Gebru, ድር ቢያብር አንበሳ ያስር – there is so much social work knowledge in African proverbs, a look at some proverbs from Ethiopia, found at: https://africasocialwork.net/2021/05/26/there-is-so-much-social-work-knowledge-in-african-proverbs-a-look-at-some-proverbs-from-ethiopia/
  7. Gebremariam, A. G. (2021). History of social services and social work in Ethiopia. Available at https://africasocialwork.net/ethiopia/ or
  8. Gebremariam, A. G. (2021). History of social services and social work in Ethiopia. Harare: African Social Work Network (ASWNET)
  9. Alemayehu Gebru , Hunde Doja Doja.(2021) . Exploring the challenges of social work education from field education perspective in Ethiopia: The case of four public Universities. j.soc.lang.stud. Vol. 8. .No.1, pp. 79-89

Publications in progress

  1. Nigussie, Tadesse, and Alemayehu, Investigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Female Employees at Hawassa Industrial Park Garment Sector, Southern-Ethiopia, EJSSLS
  1. Wario Wako and Alemayehu Gebru (2021). Exploring  the Indigenous Elderly Care Practice in the Gadaa System of Borana Oromo, Southern Ethiopia
  1. Wario Wako, Alemayehu Gebru, Nega Jibat and Obsitu Duba (2021). Experiences of the Expolitical Prisoner in the Processes of Criminal Justice System in Ethiopia: A Phenomenological Narrative Approach
  2. Alemayehu Gebru, Wubshet Hailu and Wario Wako (2022). The Lived Experiences of students Detached from their family during Ethiopian’s Tigray Conflict: The case of Jimma University
  1. Wario Wako and Alemayehu Gebru (2021). Growing up under a COVID-19 Pandemic: Its Impacts on Children’s Socialization in Jimma Town, Southwest Ethiopia, AJSW
  2. Alemayehu Gebru and Hunde Doja, (2022). Exploring the opportunities of social work education from field education perspective in Ethiopia: The case of four public Universities. Ethiop.j.soc.lang.stud.

 

  1. Research Interests
  • Health related issues
  • Children, youth, adult, elders
  • Women and men
  • CBOs, NGOs, GOs…
  • Organizations, community and society
  1. Contact Details

Birhanu Fufa

  1. Personal Information
  • Full Name: Birhanu Fufa Feyissa
  • Title :Mr.
  • Nationality: Ethiopian
  • Academic Rank: lecturer
  • Department: Social work
  • College/Institute: social sciences and humanities
  1. Publications
  • No
  1. Research Interests:
  • The interface between Children , Youth and Development
  • Social studies of children and childhood
  1. Contact Details
  • Email: bifufa2017@gmail.com
  • Tel: +251 913824785
  • Fax:
  • O.BOX: 378, Jimma University , Jimma

Wario Wako

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  1. Personal Information
    • Full Name: Wario Wako Alio
    • Title: Mr.
    • Nationality: Ethiopian
    • Academic Rank: Lecturer
    • Field of Specialization: MA in Social Work (Generalist Concentration)
    • Department: Social Work
    • College/Institute: Social Sciences and Humanities
  1. Publications
    • Wako, W., Chala, D. G., Gemede, N. J., & Ero, D. (2023). Indigenous Social Protection Mechanism: The Practices and Challenges of Buusaa-Gonofaa in the Borana Oromo, Southern Ethiopia. The Journal of Rural and Community Development, 18(4), 84–102.
    • Wario Wako, Obsitu Duba, and Nega Jibat. (2023). “It was a Grave Where a Person is Buried Alive”: Experiences of Oromo Political Prisoners under the Criminal Justice System of Ethiopia during the EPRDF. Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences and Language Studies, 10 .No.2, pp. 1 4 5 – 1 61.
    • Wario Wako, Firehiwot Jabessa, Hunde Doja, and Nega (2022). Agents and Strategies of Children’s Socialization in the Gadaa System of Borana Oromo, Southern Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences and Language Studies, 9. (1), 101-112.
    • Wario Wako and Alemayehu Gebru (2021). Indigenous Elderly Care Practice in the GadaaSystem of Borana Oromo, Southern Ethiopia. Gadaa Journal, 6(1), 72-86.
    • Wario Wako and Alemayehu Gebru (2020). Exploring the Role of Social Work in Correctional Setting: Jimma Zone Correctional Centre, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences and Language Studies, 7 (2), 61-70.
    • Alemayehu Gebru and Wario Wako (2022). Walking the theories we talk: Utilizing African social work theories in African African Journal of Social Work, 12(4), 189-198.
    • Gebru, A. and Wako, W. (2021). Female university students lived experiences of COVID- 19 lockdown: the case of Jimma University, Southwest Ethiopia. Journal of Development Administration (JDA), 6(3), 97 –
    • Wako, W. and Gebru, A. (2022). Growing up under corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the impacts on children’s socialization in Jimma City, Southwest Ethiopia. African Journal of Social Work, 12(5), 214-222.
  1. Publication on process
    • Wario Wako, Firehiwot Jabessa, Hunde Doja and Nega Jibat (2021). Children’s Socialization in the Cultural Context of Borana Oromo: Its Values and Features
    • Wario Wako, Alemayehu Gebru , Dejene Gemechu , Lidiya Dereje , and Firaol Tafese (2023). Drought as a Threat to Culture: The Cultural Impacts of Perennial Drought in Borana Oromo, Southern Ethiopia
    • Dejene Gemechu, Ameyu Godesso, Firaol Tafese, Wario Wako , Boru Musa and Alemayehu Fekede (2023). Oromoo Concept of Peace: An Exploration of its Values and Guiding Mechanisms
    • Wario Wako and      Dejene Gemachu         (2022). Indigenous      Children’s       Rights  and   Responsibilities in the Cultural Context of Borana Oromo, Southern Ethiopia
    • Wario Wako, Alemayehu Gebru and Debebe Ero (2022). Pastoralist Women’s Roles, Livelihood Risks and Resilience among Borana Oromo, Southern Ethiopia
    • Alemayehu Gebru, Wubshet Hailu and Wario Wako (2022). The Lived Experiences of students Detached from their family during Ethiopian’s Tigray Conflict: The case of Jimma University
  2. Research Interests
  • Indigenous Knowledge (Gadaa system), Children and Families, Elderly, Gender, Conflict Resolution, Disability, Migration, Drug addiction, Social Work in Criminal Justice System

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Tadesse Gobosho

 

  1. Personal Information
  • Full Name: Tadesse Gobosho Gerba
  • Title:  Dr.
  • Nationality:  Ethiopian
  • Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
  • Department: School of Social Work
  • College/Institute: Social Sciences and Humanities
  1. Publications

(Book Chapter: The Iddir in Locality-Based Social Development

Title of the Book: Incorporating Engaged Research In Social Development)

http://www.iuniverse.com/en/redeem

(Grade 7 Afan Oromo Students’ Text Book and Teachers’ Guide with Mother Tongue Curriculum Development Team. The book is in its hard copy)

  1. Research Interests
  • Asset Based Community Development
  • Child right
  • People with Disabilities
  • Human services
  • Community Participatory Action Research
  1. Contact Details
  • Email: tgobosho@gmail.com
  • Tel:  +251978597190
  • Fax:
  • BOX: 378 Jimma University, Jimma

 

 

Ashenafi Woldemikael

  1. Personal Information
  • Full Name: Ashenafi Woldemikael Yemisirach
  • Title:  
  • Nationality:  Ethiopian
  • Academic Rank: Lecturer
  • Department: School of Social Work
  • College/Institute: Social Sciences and Humanities
  1. Publications
  1. Research Interests
  • Migration
  • Human rights
  • IDPS
  • Marginalized groups social integration
  • Wellbeing of children and other disadvantaged groups
  • Health
  1. Contact Details
  • Email: ashumikael@yahoo.com
  • Tel:  +251911386863
  • Fax:
  • BOX: 378  Jimma University, Jimma

Lidia Assegid

  1. Personal Information
  • Full Name: Lidia Assegid Seifu

  • Title Miss

  • Natonality Ethiopian

  • Academic Rank Lecturer

  • Department social work

  • College/Institutesocial science & Humanities

      2 Publications:

  • No
  1. Research Interests
  • Gender,
  • Disability
  1. Contact Details
  • Email: liidiikoo@gmail.com
  • Tel: 0913869862
  • Fax:
  • Po.BOX:

Amaha Neway

  1. Personal Information
  • Full Name: :  Amaha Neway Asfaw
  • Title: Mr.
  • Nationality: Ethiopian
  • Academic Rank: Lecturer
  • Department: Social Work
  • College/Institute: Social Sciences and Humanities
  1. Publications
  • No
  1. Research Interests
  • Criminal Justice
  • Conflict Resolution and Peace Building
  • Migration
  1. Contact Details
  • Email: amishneway@gmail.com
  • Tel: 0911006785
  • Fax:
  • BOX: 378