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PERSONAL DATA

LAST NAME: AHMED

FIRST NAME: HABIB

MIDDLE NAME: SEID

ADDRESS: University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

PHYSICAL STREET ADDRESS FOR COURIER DELIVERY (NOT A POSTAL BOX): Azezo, Azezo Teda Sub City, Gondar, Ethiopia

TELEPHONE MOBILE: +251918772776 and +251910926378

EMAIL: sobiyema@gmail.com  habib.seid@uog.edu.et and hsahmed3@asu.edu

Website Address: Habib Seid Ahmed

PRESENT NATIONALITY: Ethiopia

HEALTH STATUS: Excellent

EDUCATION

1.      GRADUATE CERTIFICATE, LEARNING DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGIES, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation, From January 2026 to present.

2.      MA, Master of Arts in Sociology, University of Gondar, College of Social Science& Humanities, School of Sociology and Social Work, Department of Sociology, Gondar, Ethiopia, From 2010 – 2012

3.      Post Graduate Advanced Diploma, Integrated Community Development and Child Welfare, University of Illinois at Chicago, Jane Addams College of Social Work and Addis Ababa University, School of Social Work, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, From March 2009 -- August 2010

4.      BA, Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, University of Gondar, College of Social Science and Humanities, School of Sociology and Social Work, Department of Sociology, Gondar Ethiopia, From 2006 – 2009

5.      Diploma: Diploma in Business Management: University of Gondar, Faculty of Management Science and Economics, Department of Business Management, Gondar, Ethiopia, From 2003—2005

WORK EXPERIENCE

1.  Strategy and Current Development Study Officer: Center for Policy and Strategy Studies, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia, From December, 2025 to Present.

2.  SENIOR LECTURER: Department of Sociology, School of Sociology and Social Work, College of Social Science and Humanities, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia, From October, 2013 to Present

Duties and Accomplishments

ü  I give course lectures and other forms of instructions including practical and field demonstrations to undergraduate and post graduate students in the department of Sociology.

ü  I carry out scholarly research in the areas of my interest i.e. Economic Sociology, Urban livelihoods, project management, Peace and conflict, sociology of media, social institutions, and social research methods, etc.

ü  Besides, I offered several trainings for community-based organizations on a range of topics as part of my responsibility to provide community services.

ü  Teaching, undertakes researches; develop teaching materials and modules for courses; plan, implement, advise and evaluate community development programs.

ü  Plan and supervise teaching and learning activities at departmental level.

ü  Evaluate and promote collage staff members to the required academic rank as per the university legislation.

ü  Work on proposal development, research projects, facilitate different trainings and workshops on research and project management.

ü  Coordinator for Summer and Extension programs, community service coordinator of collage of social sciences and the humanities, at the University of Gondar;

ü  Member of five strategic plan designing committee for collage of social sciences and the humanities collage and department of sociology, university of Gondar;

ü  Scholarship and promotion committee member of collage of social sciences and humanities, University of Gondar;

ü  Member of research center for collage of social sciences and humanities, University of Gondar

ü  Offered a series of trainings on CBR for persons with disabilities and community leaders selected from Gonder city and its environs by University of Gondar, CBR project form March, 2017-June, 2017

3.  PROJECT COORDINATOR: Child and Income Generating Activities (IGA) Project, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Program, CommunitàVolontari per il Mondo (CVM), North Gondar Office, Gondar, Ethiopia, From January 1, 2010 – June 30, 2010

Duties and Accomplishments

ü  Project management including coordinating and managing capacity building and livelihood programs.

ü  Planned, facilitated and assessed  the capacity building programs of partner CBOs and local government on HIV/AIDS and gender issues

ü  Planned, coordinated and monitored gender and HIV/AIDS mainstreaming in the project activities.

ü  Planned, coordinated, supervised and evaluated the activities of partner income generating cooperatives

ü  Trained, mentored, followed-up and supervised the HIV/AIDS and Gender Network as well as the Community Advisory Group which are responsible for providing information and Para-counseling service to the project beneficiaries.

ü  Built the organizational capacity of the Project on HIV/AIDS and gender issues through research and dissemination of lessons learnt. 

4.  PROJECT OFFICER: Urban HIV/AIDS Project, Funded by: World Food Program (UNWFP Ethiopia), Organization for Social Services for AIDS (OSSA), OSSA Gondar Branch, Gondar, Ethiopia, From September 1, 2006 – May 31, 2009.

Duties and Accomplishments

ü  Proven leadership and human management skills, Project management including coordinating and managing capacity building and livelihood programs.

ü  Training and workshop facilitation skills as attested by the various workshops and training sessions that I have participated.

ü  I have also offered several trainings on issues of Community mobilization, HIV/AIDS counseling, life skills and community based rehabilitation.

ü  Designing and developing capacity assessment programs.

ü  Compiling and writing monthly, quarterly and annual progress reports and conducting capacity assessment studies.

ü  Excellent ability to use computer applications obtained through training and practical experience of working by using computers.

ü  I have good presentation skills by using various media.

ü  I have offered a series of trainings on Community Mobilization and HIV/AIDS Counseling as a Freelance trainer for Iddir leaders and Voluntary care givers selected from Gondar town from March 22 to April 18 2007, Organized by OSSA, Gondar Branch.

ü  I have offered 14 days training on life skills to voluntary care givers in Gondar city organized by Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia Gondar Branch clinic in 2008

TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (ONLY RELEVANT)

·         English Language Improvement Program (ELIP), English language skills and development, English and the 21st century skills, and using digital technology in Language learning organized by University of Gondar, Ethiopia, during the 2024/2025 academic year.

·         Stakeholders Mapping and Scenario Planning, April 2022

·         Training of Trainers (TOT) on life skill, September 2020

·         Applied research method and evidence based practice healed at university of Gondar organized by the Ethiopian society of sociologists, social workers and anthropologists (ESSSWA) from 17 to 19 may 2018

·         Research protocol development by university of Gondar, July 2017

·         Programs assessors training workshop organized by higher education relevance and quality agency and JHPIEGO Ethiopia, 2015

·          Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods with Special Emphasis to Soft Ware Packages of SPSS and STATA, 2014

·         Grant Writing Skill at University of Gondar, 2014

·         Training of trainers (TOT) held in university of Gondar ,Gondar, 2014

·         Mental health & HIV/AIDS counseling training of trainers (TOT) organized by strengthening communities response to HIV/AIDS project and the Ethiopian society of sociologists, social workers and anthropologists, Addis Ababa, 2011

·         HIV/AIDS knowledge workshop organized by ESSSWA and SCRHA at the University of Gondar, 2011

·         Research methodology training conducted by the university of Gondar, Gondar, from July 11-july-22, 2011

·         I have participated in the training organized by the Ethiopian Sociologists, Social Workers and Social Anthropologists Association and SCRHA on Pedagogical Skills training program for faculty members of social work/sociology training institutions, at Gondar university; In 2010

·         Proceeding Record of Social Work Pre-Service Education Assessment Report Dissemination and Working Group Meeting: The International Training and Education Center for Health (I- TECH) USAID- Funded Project: Strengthening Communities’ Responses to HIV/AIDS Harmony Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, From February 9 –12, 2010

·         Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation: Care International Ethiopia, Organization for Social Services for AIDS (OSSA) Bahir Dar Branch and Zemen Development and Management Institute (ZDMI), Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, From June 25, 2009 - June 29, 2009 3.

·         Commodity Management: United Nations World Food Program Ethiopia (UNWFP), Adama, Ethiopia, From October 24, 2006 - October 26, 2006

·         Home and Community Based Care Service (HCBC): Organization for Social Services for AIDS (OSSA) Gondar Branch and Family Health International Ethiopia (FHI Ethiopia), Gondar, Ethiopia, From December 27, 2004 - January 19, 2005

·         Diploma: Diploma in PC: Huge Tech Computer Engineering, From May 2002 -- September 2002

PUBLISHED RESEARCH ARTICLES

·         Why and how do parents secretly abandon their children? The psychosocial burden they went through: Qualitative case study in Gondar City, Ethiopia, Yassin Mohammed Yesuf, Adonawit Ayalew Bewketu, Habib Seid Ahmed, May 19th, 2023 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370897494 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2949346/v1

·         COVID‑19 vaccine acceptance, use, and associated factors among health sciences students in Eastern Ethiopia, Habib Seid, Abera Jambo, Shambel Nigussie, Tigist Gashaw, 26 May 2023, Journal of Public Health  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-023-01965-7

RESEARCH, CONFERENCE AND COMMUNITY ENGAGENMENT

ü  Research conference on protection of health care in Armed Conflicts, promotion of international law in teaching jointly organized by school of law, University of Gondar and the international committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from October 28-29, 2025, Gondar.

ü  Mental health (well-being and ill-being), social support and resilience among refugees in Ethiopia: The situation of Sudanese and Eritrean refugees at Aftit and Alemwach refugee sites (2024-2025)

ü  Mental health, psychosocial challenges and educational adjustments of internally displaced children with disabilities at Kebero Meda IDP site: Exploring who is playing what role using socio-ecological framework to child development (2024-2025)

ü  Participated as active participant on National Dialogue Commission agenda identification and collection program at Amhara regional state level March, 2025.

ü  Elected as representative of the Amhara regional state to participate in for nationwide final National Dialogue Commission to be held in September, 2025.

ü  Community Perception toward Women Leadership and Political Participation in Amhara National Regional State, As a Co-researcher; 2018

ü  Disadvantaged Groups: Social and Cultural Perceptions and Practices on Women and Children in north Gondar zone, As a Co-researcher; 2016

ü  The role of social capital on environmental development and Redevelopment program in North Gondar zone, as a Co-Researcher 2015

ü  Factors for the socio-economic disadvantages positions of the Negede Wyeto community in Bahir Dar city, As a Principal Researcher, 2014

ü  Assessment on the Socio-Economic Problems of Gondar City, Begging, Street Children, Commercial Sex Workers and Housing Problems, Gondar, Ethiopia, 2015, as a Co-Researcher, 2013

ü  The Role of Social Networks in the Social and Economic Life of Women Householders living in Enkoye Mesk Sefer, Gondar, Ethiopia, July, 2012, as Principal Resercher

ü  Baseline Survey on HIV/AIDS Awareness, Perception and Attitude and Practice of Sesame Farmers Association Members in MetemaWoreda, North Gondar Zone and HumeraWoreda, West Tigray Zone Ethiopia, Conducted by USAID/ATEP in Collaboration with CVM North Gondar Office, From June 10 – 28, 2010, As Co- Researcher

ü  Qualitative Research on Assessment on Knowledge, Practice and Attitudes of Youth and Gender with HIV/AIDS Related Issues in Four Selected Kebeles of Gondar City, Conducted by Population Council – Ethiopia, From April 1 -  5, 2009, as Co Researcher

ü  Qualitative Research on Gender, Manhood and Womanhood Perception In Rural and Urban Areas, in West Gojjam, Bahir Dar City, Merawi (Meccha) and North Gondar Zones Gondar City and Maksegnit Woreda, Conducted by Population Council – Ethiopia,                                       From August 10, 2008-September 5, 2008, as Co Resercher

MEMBERSHIPS OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

·         Ethiopian Society of Sociologists, social workers and Anthropologist Association (ESSSWA), Member

·         Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS), Member

·         Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA), Member

·         Tabir Book Club, Board Member

REFERENCES

Asrat Atsedeweyn (PhD)

        President, University of Gondar

        Email: asrat.atsedeweyn@uog.edu.et

        Mobile Phone: +251930001197

Workineh Asmare Kassie (PhD)

         Policy and Strategy Studies Director, University of Gondar

         Email: workineh.asmare@uog.edu.et

         Mobile Phone: +251913594977       

Sisay Sahle (PhD)

Educational Quality and Audit Director, University of Gondar

Email: sisaysahle@gmail.com

Mobile Phone: +251 918778080

Mikiyas Abera (PhD)

Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Gondar

Email: mikidar2011@gmail.com

Mobile Phone: +251 913228478