Community Service for Better Community Life

As part of the Dambi Dollo University (DaDU) commitment to expand the horizon of community service provision in scale and type, staffs of the University have been engaged in delivering varied community services which are either product of individual initiative or organized effort made by the University.

Community Service activities in our university comprises an activity, project or program service(s) conducted by academic staff and or students together with different stakeholders as well as the community itself in response to the social, economic, political, and other needs of the community outside the University in line with country’s development priority.

Community service can take a variety of forms that does not require funding from University such as charity activity, unpaid service to community members or consultancy to organizations. It is expected that most community service projects to be the results of prior research engagements of staff. 

Ultimately, research should result in either intervention to solve community problems (community service project) or innovation idea to be commercialized and disseminated to community (technology transfer project/community service project). Understood in this way, there is strong linkage between research, technology transfer and community service activities.