Henok Ayele
Ethics and Anti-Corruption Directorate
Dire Dawa University is one of the Ethiopian federal universities established among a group of 2nd generation Universities. It is found in the Dire Dawa Administration Dire Dawa town. The University is designated to be a center of learning and research, especially in the three focus areas of health, Technology, Business and economics. To these, the University has a wide range of academic programs and administrative offices to meet the growing demand for trained manpower in the region and the country at wide. To effectively carry out its mission and achieve its vision, the university has established various academic and admin directorates. Dire Dawa University Ethics and Anti-Corruption Directorate is one of these offices.
Dire Dawa University Ethics and Anti –Corruption Directorate was established based on Proclamation No 144/2000 in June 2014 of the Council Ministers of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia with the overall duty of coordinating ethical issues and advising the president on such matters.
Accountability
• The Ethics
and Anti-Corruption Directorate is accountable to the University President.
Objectives
• Endeavor to
create University employees who do not condone corruption by promoting ethics
and anti-corruption education, work ethic, professional ethics, conscience of
serving the public and sense of duty among employees.
• Prevent
corruption and impropriety in the University.
• Endeavor to
cause acts of corruption and impropriety to be exposed and investigated and
appropriate actions be taken against the perpetrators
Organization
• The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Directorate is headed
by a Director and Three experts.
Major activities of the Directorate are;
The Directorate recognizes and commits itself to the
pursuit of the vision, mission and value of the university. In light of this,
the following are the main and/or focus areas of the office to ensure ethics
and good governance in the university;
• Raising ethical awareness
• Preventing
Corruption
• Providing
training in ethical and moral values to create an attitude and understanding to
prevent corruption.
• Lead the way
to corrective measures based on corruption and malpractice nominations.
• Institutional
development of good ethics and coordination of anti-corruption activities
• Conducting
system research based on urgent anti-corruption work
• Counsel the
institution on the issue of anti-corruption.
Encourage participation from the DDU community and its
stakeholders in the combating/fight against corruption
