The major objectives of the department are:

- Train high school geography teachers with the view to meet the demand for the increasing need of teachers in Ethiopian high schools.

- Train geography professionals who can contribute meaningfully in the various fields to enhence the socio economic developmental endeavours of the country.

- Embark on problem solving research on human and physical geography areas such as urban and regional development planning, migration and urbanization, environmental resource utilization and protection, watershed and land resource management and related issues.

- Provide training and consultancy service to governmental and non-governmental organization.

Future plan

- Increased enrollment of undergraduate students on the teaching and non-teaching stream.

- Post graduate study(masters program) on geography and environmental education.

- Intensive research on human and physical geography areas that alleviate the socio economic problems of the nation.

- Development of geographic information systems training center.

- Establishment of high standard GIS, cartography, hydrological and soil laboratories.

Activities underway

-Teaching undergraduate geography students and history and civics students whose minor is geography.

- Research undertaking on environmental, population and poverty issues in collaboration with the NTNU of Norway(Throug the NUFU project)

- Conduction laboratory activities

- Field execursion

Contact:

Geography Department

Dilla University

P.O. Box 419

Dilla, Ethiopia