EIAR is going to close positions of technical and lab assistants.

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44.4%
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6.2% 5.7%
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Livestock
S&W
Forestry
Mecha.
Quality
Biotech
Econo.
Seed
Biometry
Planning
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Bako
DZARC
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Fogera
FRC
HARC
HQ
JARC
KARC
Mehoni
MARC
PARC
Tepi
WARC
WGARC
Number
EIAR is to close positions of Technical/ Laboratory Assistants: Where are these
positions, an overview
Solomon Abate1
, Solomon Bekele2
and Kidist Girma3
1
Quality Directorate;
2
Change Management Directorate;
3
Human Resource Management Directorate
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research for the last couple
of decades has been employing technical and laboratory
assistants which after business process reengineering (BPR)
named field and laboratory assistants. Technical and field
assistants are principally diploma holders who have been
graduated in agriculture related disciplines. Being this is fact,
however, few number of the current assistants have been
promoted to these positions from 12th grade complete as a
very short moment. Technical/laboratory assistant positions are
structured just under the researcher group, and so far played
significant role in the institutes' move.
Due to the fact that the market to diploma holders is becoming
rare, being significant number of BSc or BA holders is available,
and the technical competency in the research institute is
becoming very challenging, the technical and laboratory
assistant positions are decided to be totally replaced by
junior researchers. As has been instructed by the office of
the prime minister and Ministry of Civil Service
1
, the
existing positions of technical/ laboratory assistants which
have already been occupied by personnel will be
maintained until the existing personnel leaves these
positions starting May 2014. Hence, unless and otherwise
the institute finds minor rooms to flexibly apply this
decision, no further employment, promotion, transfer, etc
is going to be made on the existing positions of technical/
laboratory assistants.
Therefore this communication is meant to show the
existing positions and personnel EIAR has on both field
and laboratory assistants.
EIAR has a total of 421 technical/ laboratory
assistants. These assistants are involved in
eleven process or directorates, of which the
majority (44.4%) are in crop research
directorate.
Soil and Water, and livestock directorate
have 62 and 49 field assistants, respectively.
Laboratory assistants which composes
biotechnology and quality laboratories are a
total of 34.
Agricultural economics and technology
multiplication have respective field
assistants of 26 and 24. While ten assistants are in Agricultural Mechanization directorate, agro meteorology and
planning have less than five assistants.
Holleta Research Center has (91) 21.6% of the total
laboratory/ technical assistants, followed by Melkassa
and DebreZeit with respective number of 58 and 51.
Kulumsa, Jimma and Werer have 33, 32 and 30 field/
laboratory assistants respectively. There are 22
assistants in Wondogenet, 20 in Assosa, 19 in Forestry
center, 15 in Pawe, 14 in both Ambo and Tepi. Other
remaining centers has got less than 10 assistants.
1
የኢትዮጵያ የግብርና ምርምር ኢንስቲትዩት የሥራ መሪዎች፣ የተመራማሪዎችና የቴክኒክ/ላብራቶሪ ረዳቶች የደመወዝና ጥቅማ ጥቅም ፓኬጅ አፈጻጸም መመሪያ
ሰኔ፣ 2006
DistributionofAssistantsin
ResearchProcesses
Assistants in Centers

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Number of field/ lab Assistants
in various research processes and Centers
9 9 7
23
0 1 0
37
0
21
17
3
28
6 6 7
13
0
10
20
30
40
Ambo
Assoa
Bako
DZARC
Fishery
Fogera
FRC
HARC
HQ
JARC
KARC
Mehoni
MARC
PARC
Tepi
WARC
WGARC
Crop Research Process
Except two centers (Sebeta Fishery and
Forestry) and the head quarter, crop
research process has field assistants in all
research centers.
Holleta is the leading in number of field
assistants, followed by Melkassa and
Debrezeit with their respective number
of 37, 28 and 23. While Jimma, Kulumsa
and Wondogent centers have 21, 17 and
13 field assistants, other centers have
less than ten.
CROPRESEARCHPROCESS
0
4
0
12
3
0 0
13
0 0
1 1 1
2
3
6
3
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14 Ambo
Assoa
Bako
DZARC
Fishery
Fogera
FRC
HARC
HQ
JARC
KARC
Mehoni
MARC
PARC
Tepi
WARC
WGARC
Livestock Research Process
3 3
0
3
0 0 0
15
0
4
7
2
6
2
4
11
2
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
Ambo
Assoa
Bako
DZARC
Fishery
Fogera
FRC
HARC
HQ
JARC
KARC
Mehoni
MARC
PARC
Tepi
WARC
WGARC
Soil & Water Research Process
SOIL AND WATER RESEARCH PROCESS
Soil and Water research process has no field
assistants in Bako, Fishery, Fogera, Forestry and
Head quarter. The minimum number of field
assistants in the process is two which are located at
Mehoni, Pawe and Wondogenet. At Debrezeit,
Assosa and Ambo the number is raised to three.
Four field assistants are located at Jimma and Tepi.
While Melkassa contain six, Kulumsa and Werer
research centers have seven and eleven field
assistants. Similar to other major research
processes, Holleta has the maximum number of
field assistants (15).
Field assistants in livestock research
process are located in eleven centers, of
which only Holleta and Debrezeit have
more than ten, 13 and 12 respectively. In
three centers (Kulumsa, Mehoni and
Melkassa) only one field assistants are
existing.
The number of field assistants in Sebeta
Fishery where only livestock research is
being conducted is three in number.
LIVESTOCKRESEARCHPROCESS

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0
1
0
2
0
0
19
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
1
0 5 10 15 20
Ambo
Assoa
Bako
DZARC
Fishery
Fogera
FRC
HARC
HQ
JARC
KARC
Mehoni
MARC
PARC
Tepi
WARC
WGARC
AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION RESEARCH PROCESS
Since the research is being managed and performed only
in Melkassa, of the total ten assistants in Agricultural
Mechanization, nine are located in Melkassa. Mehoni
center has only one assistant.
Mehoni
10%
MARC
90%
This category contains all laboratory assistants, except
those located in biotechnology laboratory of Holleta
research center.
From a total of 28 laboratory assistants in EIAR, ten are
in Holleta center. Kulumsa has five of the laboratory
assistants, and four assistants are working in both
Melkassa and Debrezeit research centers. Centers that
have only one laboratory assistants are Jimma,
Wondogenet, Ambo and Assosa.
QUALITY AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH PROCESS
Ambo
4% Assoa
4% DZARC
14%
HARC
36%
HQ
4%
JARC
4%
KARC
18%
MARC
14%
WGARC
4%
Quality Agricultural Research
More than 50% of field assistants in Forestry
are located in Forestry research center, 19 in
number. The total number of filed assistants of
Forestry in other centers is seven.
Except Debrezeit which has two assistants in
the process, all others (Assosa, Mehoni,
Melkassa, Pawe and Wondogenet) have only
one field assistants.
Being Forestry is moved to another ministry,
these assistants, which are located in other
research centers than Forestry should be
transferred to other processes as of the coming
Ethiopian Calendar.
FORESTRYRESEARCHPROCESS

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From the total 421 field/ laboratory assistants in EIAR, six are laboratory assistants at Biotechnology laboratory of
Holleta research center, two are field assistants of GIS, Biometrics and Agrometerology directorate located at
Melkassa and one is registered in the department of planning , monitoring and evaluation at Holleta.
Note: Very minor error on these figure might occur.
Ambo
4% DZARC
19%
HARC
15%JARC
8%
KARC
12%
Mehoni
4%
MARC
15%
PARC
12%
WARC
4%
WGARC
8%
Agricultural Economics, Extension & Gender
Process
AGRICULTURALECONOMICS,EXTENSIONAND
GENDERRESEARCHPROCESS
No field assistants of Agricultural Economics,
extension and gender research process is
present in seven research centers, namely
Assosa, Bako, Sebeta Fishery, Fogera, FRC,
Head Quarter and Tepi.
From a total of 26 field assistants in the
process, the maximum number five are located
in Debrezeit.
Holleta and Melkassa each have four assistants.
Six are working in Kulumsa and Pawe research
centers, three each. Jimma and Wondogenet
have two assistants in the field. The remaining
centers (Mehoni, Ambo and Werer) have one
field assistant.
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2
0
2
0 0 0
5
0
4
0
1
3
1 1
5
0
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Ambo
Assoa
Bako
DZARC
Fishery
Fogera
FRC
HARC
HQ
JARC
KARC
Mehoni
MARC
PARC
Tepi
WARC
WGARC
Technology Multiplication
TECHNOLOGYMULTIPLICATION
DIRECTORATE
From a total of seventeen research center in
EIAR, nine have field assistants in technology
multiplication directorate, of which three
(Pawe, Tepi and Mehoni) have only one.
Holleta and Werer research centers have the
maximum number of field assistants in the
sector, (5). Four and three assistants are
working in Jimma and Melkassa research
centers, respectively. Assosa and Debrezeit
have two field assistants.
Information source:
 Human Resource Database of EIAR Head Quarter; Tel: 011-6460174; Mob: 0911-181950; E-mail: kidut01@gmail.com
 Human Resource departments of 16 research centers, i.e., Ambo, Assosa, Bako, Debrezeit, Fishery, Fogera, FRC, Holleta,
Jimma, Kulumsa, Mehoni, Melkassa, Pawe, Tepi, Werer and Wondogenet