2nd Annual Jimma Seminar 2018
SACCADE outcomes
1. More and better qualified staff relevant to needs of Ethiopia/Africa
2. More and better research relevant to country/region
3. Establish systems for strong institutional capacity for knowledge dissemination, quality assurance and research at Jimma University
4. Ensured equal opportunities for female staff at Jimma University and
St. Paul Millennium Hospital Medical College
NORAD, NORHED & SACCADE
• Enhanced gender equality
• Gender equity as an integrated part in higher education
institutions
• Increased number of women in
leadership positions
Why more women in Higher Edcuation in Ethiopia?
• Gender inequality index (GII) 49.9%
• 90% av girls in primary education
• 8% av women in HE
• Addis University over 60 years
• First female professor in 2009
Women Leaders at Jimma University
JEWEL – Jimma Executive Program for Women in Academic & Educational Leadership
Jimma University, Ethiopia & University of Oslo, Norway
JEWEL
• Mission: Increase the number of women in senior academic leadership positions as executives and change agents
• Enrich the talent pool for leadership in academics
• Increase the diversity of role models for next generation of academic professionals
• Promote social innovation in academic organizations and the community they serve
Objectives
• Establish a training and education program suiting the needs of women leaders in HE in Ethiopia.
• Facilitate a community of practice of leadership among women leaders in academic medicine and health sciences.
• Enable women leaders in HE in medicine and health sciences to inform the leadership-training curriculum.
• Increase the diversity of role models for next generation of academic professionals.
• Ensure high pedagogic and participatory methods in the training program.
• Achieve high participant satisfaction ratings.
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Jimma Executive Program for Women in
Academic & Educational Leadership (JEWEL)
• Fellows invited from 24 Universities in Ethiopia
• Nominated by their Dean
• 5-7 day sessions
• Focus on leadership, team work and communication
• Total 62 has participated
JEWEL
Management and Leadership Skill
Enhancement
Communities of Leadership
Practice
Visible, Mentored Institutional Contributions
Leadership
Organizational Dynamics Leadership
Effectiveness
Strategic Managment
Build a community of women leaders with broad perspectives and deep capacity to address emerging issues of the society they serve
• Describe our own leadership style with a balance of strategic, operational and relational strengths applied to institutional leadership roles
Personal, Professional, and Leadership
Effectiveness
• Discuss strategic approaches to management that enhances the mission of dynamic academic
institutions
Strategic Managment
• Discuss the roles of academic leaders in
advancing complex and dynamic organizations
Organizational Dynamics
JEWEL Session objectives
Personal competencies
• Facilitate understanding of importance of self-awareness.
• Foster understanding of and strategies for self-reflection
• Foster and increase understanding of the importance of self-promotion
• Increase understanding of personal attitude, role and behaviour in teams.
Skills
• Increase knowledge about types, styles and role of communication.
• Enhance ability to reflect on
leadership skills, traits and styles.
• Increase knowledge and perspective on team-building, -work, -culture and -dynamics
• Increase understanding of the
importance of mentoring, networks and community of practice
participation
• Time management and project planning
Lived experience Ethiopian context Peer mentoring
Women supporters
• “When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving advice, you have not done what I asked.
• When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way,
you are trampling on my feelings.
• When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problems,
you have failed me, strange as that may seem.
• So please just listen and hear me. And if you want to talk, wait a few minutes for your turn
and I promise that I will listen to you.”
• Anonymous
