Fundraising Coordination Office

Overview

On the basis of the core missions of the previous Ministry of Agriculture, now the Ministry of Labor and Skills in Ethiopia, Mizan Agricultural TVET College has been engaged in education, specifically Agricultural TVET College (outcome based training, conduct applied research, technology transfer and community service activities). The college has experiences in generating problem-solving research findings and technologies that have contributed much towards national and local development needs and priorities since its establishment in 2002. Over the last decade, it has been actively engaged in transfer of technologies to different stakeholders and communities. Due to its notable achievements in education, research and community engagement, Mizan Agricultural TVET College has been acknowledged as one of the outstanding colleges out of Agricultural TVET College in the Ministry of Agriculture Ethiopia in 2017.

Apart from this, the college is increasingly attracting the attention of international institutions and organizations for collaborative engagements. This is mainly due to the outstanding performances of its academic staff in development of grant winning project proposals. At present, Mizan Agricultural TVET College is running more than two collaborative projects with Africa Union/NEPAD and Dutch (PUM) partners. The projects are being carried out by setting up partnerships with two international organizations and seven national (governmental and non-governmental) organizations. The projects are basically engaged in capacity building, research, and technology transfer and community service.

The collaborative projects are playing an indispensable role in developing the capacity of Mizan Agricultural TVET College through human resource development, fulfillment of highly needed resources for teaching and research, and generating and transferring of appropriate technologies. Accordingly, Mizan Agricultural TVET College’s collaborative projects have trained on grant project writing for fund for 31 instructors, and Hone production and processing including bee hive making for 8 animal science instructors and three members of Tesfay Honey processing firm as partner of the college from PUM Netherland in short term training.

The other important components in the collaborative projects are the key roles they play in the execution of research and technology transfer. Most of the projects are engaged in conducting research in core areas of national development. On the other hand, the collaborative projects are helping the community through providing research-based technologies in various disciplines. They are also engaged in delivering tailor-made training to different stakeholders that include, teachers, agricultural professionals, farmers, women and youth. The training focuses on improving the knowledge, skills and attitude of the trainees so that they will be more productive, efficient and effective in their careers.

Duties & Responsibilities

Initiate and facilitate collaboration with different local and global partners in capacity building, research and community services;
Follow up the experts’ activities and direct in the way to enhance the partners' further collaborations to the college,
Facilitate suitable ground for collaborative projects follow up and supervision;
Organize annual forum of collaborative projects at the college level by inviting project coordinators and donors,
Identify and invite potential trainers/ experts to deliver training to academic staff on designing grant proposals in various disciplines;
Chair panel of experts who are responsible to supervise the collaborative projects.
Search for different national and international calls for project/ research proposals from websites and links and dispatch them to their respective departments for action;
Facilitate the subscription of potential website or company which regularly post grant proposal calls in global level,
Post interdisciplinary/ multidisciplinary funding proposal calls in different notice boards and social media across the college.
Avail sample proposals or requirements of different countries call to professionals who design proposals for a possible funding;
Set trainings to various potential academic staff on how to develop grant proposals and win funds;
Establish grant proposal writing team in academic unit/ college level so that grant proposal call can be responded efficiently and easily; and
Set and lead a team of experts at a college level who develop proposals for multidisciplinary grant calls.

Initiations of Collaborative Projects: Areas and Strategies of Collaboration

Mizan Agricultural TVET College aspires to be one of the best Agricultural TVET Colleges in 2030. To achieve this vision, it should focus on the successful implementation of various activities on the pillars of teaching and learning, Agricultural TVET research, technology transfer and community service. Thus, the areas of collaboration and partnership emanate from the pillars which the college is intended to focus on. Specifically, the college needs to establish collaboration with different national and international partners with the following intentions:

Employability Skills on women, youth, and vulnerable communities;
Organize micro and Small enterprises, and cooperative societies to become self-employed;
To render diversified and quality services. This can be done through provision of varieties of technological resources and equipment for laboratories, workshop, demonstration site and ICT centers in the college;
To build the capacity of academic staff in various disciplines and exchange of staff and trainees. That means, collaborations which support the staff to pursue their post graduate studies in various fields of studies. This enhances the quality of the teaching and learning across the disciplines;
To facilitate the college industry linkage activities through scaling up best practices in different parts of the country and the world;
To mainstream cross cutting issues such as, Gender, Nutrition, Climate, Entrepreneurship, and HIV/AIDS in different development aspects;

Our future interest is to further expand our national and international partnerships and collaborations in order to continue focusing on Smart agriculture, Food security, Energy, and Agri-Tech, Capacity building, and training quality;

We are happy for sake focuses on encouraging further collaboration with different institutions, organizations and companies across the world.