The Federation of African Universities (FAU) as is a continental non-governmental and not for profit confederation set up by universities in Africa to promote cooperation among themselves and with the international academic community now FAU thrilled that Gambella University is located at Gambella town, the capital of GPNRS which is 766 km far from Addis Ababa.
Gambella University is located at Gambella town, the capital of GPNRS which is 766 km far from Addis Ababa. At the beginning the institution was established as Gambella Agricultural, Technical, Vocational and Educational Training (GATVET) College which was organized and managed by the former Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and GPNRS and Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Development from 2002 to 2012 to produce middle level Agricultural Developmental Agents. During ten years (2002-2012) more than 1,950 students were graduated on Animal Science, Natural Resource, Plant Science and Cooperative Departments in the Diploma program / (level IV). Moreover, more than 493 General Agriculture students were graduated within the Certificate Program.
As an independent institution Gambella University was proclaimed by the Council of Ministry under Proclamation No. 317/2006 and assumes its institutional mandate. Right after, the establishment of Gambella University in 2014 opened a new chapter in the history of the Gambella Region and the people. Soon after, the University was introduced to the public and 514 students were assigned to study in College of Agriculture and Natural Resource and Faculty of Business and Economics with thirteen Departments and currently there are 31 undergraduate programs and two Colleges College of Agriculture and Natural Resource, College of Engineering and School of law Faculty of Business and Economics, Faculty of social Science and Humanity, and Faculty of Natural and Computational science. Additionally, the university already launch Postgraduate Program in Animal Production independently and three Postgraduate programs (Project Planning and Management, Development Studies and Master of Business Administration) in collaboration with Green Research Development Institute (GRDI).
However, the FAU initiative is a network and continental confederation founded in January 25, 2022, dedicated to promoting education understanding and awareness of the African environmental education services and its intercultural mediation through the honest and accurate cooperation and integration of local, regional, continental and international knowledge and development issues. It acted as the head of national, regional scholars’ forums or university organizations of 54 countries in the African environment.
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