PURPOSE: The purpose of this National Mobility Program for PhD Candidates is to enhance AAU PhD candidates’ research capability, promote partnerships with National Universities and institutes, and enhance collaboration. It is expected that PhD candidates conduct research, use specific instruments, and work on publications. This exchange visit is believed to enhance this process and to accelerate the write-up process of the dissertation in a new environment at closer contact with the candidates’ advisors/co-advisors and other researchers in the study area at host University.

On December 2021, the Africa Centre of Excellence for Water Management received conditional accreditation from AQAS for its three PhD and Five MSc Programs. AQAS announced its conditional accreditation when the Agency issued Quality Assurance Accreditation Certificate Award to ACEWM last year.

Water, food and energy are the basis for human livelihoods and economic activities; they are also closely interrelated: agriculture, forestry and the energy sector simultaneously depend heavily on and affect water resources.

Ethiopia lacks specialized water analysis laboratories and as a result, is forced to send samples to reference laboratories in other countries. To address this challenge the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has established the Ethiopian Water Technology Institute (EWTI) in 2013 (Council of Ministers Regulation No. 293/2013) with the aim of providing management, best practices, research, capacity building, and technology transfer in the water sector.

Inland tropical freshwater shallow lakes in Africa contribute significantly to local and global communities. These ecosystem services (ESs) contributions are aligned to UN SDGs and demonstrate a positive contribution to humanity in terms of the food systems and climate regulations. Human activities alongside climatic drivers are changing inland freshwater shallow lakes’ ecosystems and associated biodiversity across the globe.