The Blue Nile Water Institute at Bahir Dar University has recently held a five years strategic plan review national workshop.The Strategic Plan when implemented will see an increase in the number of world class research outputs and consultancy services as well as the installation of state of art laboratory technology at Bahir Dar.
Explaining the objective, the Director Goraw Goshu noted that the institute was inaugurated to undertake research and training activities, to provide consultancy services in water and water related areas in the Upper Blue Nile region of the country.
He claimed that the vision of the institute is to become a world class knowledge center in water and water related areas with the view of making Bahir Dar University one of the premier research universities in Africa in 2025.
He also asserted that the need of introducing strategic plan was to properly manage research and training, consultancy services, knowledge production and dissemination activities of the institute in a well coordinated and organized manner.
During the workshop, external reviewers also gave their input to improve the draft strategic plan of the institute.
Participants were drawn from Universities, government and non-government agencies and research institutes.
