ESSSWA Excellence Award
ESSSWA as a professional society for sociologists, social workers and anthropologists works for the development and better future of its members and the profession. In this regard the society with set criterion awards professionals and institutions of government and nongovernment who did really devoted their life to the promotion and development of sociology, social work and anthropology. In this regard this year,
2010 Award
- Individual Excellence Award
Doctor Jember Tefera was awarded as “ESSSWA 2010 Individual Award”
- Institutional Excellence Award
Forum on Street Children now renamed as Forum on Sustainable Child Empowerment was awarded as organization of the year 2010 in promoting the fields of sociology, social work and anthropology in Ethiopia.
Professor Andargachew Tesfaye
2006 Award
The award program was initiated in the past to honor prominent people for their outstanding contributions to the association, their respective professions, and/or the Ethiopian society at large. Mr. Shimels Adugna and Miss. Hirut Imiru were given the second ESSSWA award on 4 March 2006 for their long years of dedication to professional services.
Family Guidance Association Ethiopia
2005 Award
Professor Seyoum Gebresellassie
Professor Seyoum Gebre-Selassie was born and lived for much of his life in Addis Ababa. He was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology SOSA) at Addis Ababa University (AAU). He earned his BA in 1959 (Ethiopia), his 1st MA in 1961 (India), his 2nd MA in 1975 (USA), and his Ph.D. in 1976 (USA). Professor Seyoum had an extensive teaching, research and administrative experiences. He served as a Director of the Awassa Community Development Training and Demonstration Center, a Registrar of AAU, a Dean of the School of Social Work (Haile-Selassie I University), a Dean of the College of Social Sciences at AAU, and a Chairman of the Department of Sociology at AAU. Prof. Seyoum co-founded various professional organizations and played leadership roles in most. Some of the organizations in which he made noble contributions include the Family of Guidance Association of Ethiopia, the Association for Social Work Education in Africa, the Ethiopian Society of Sociologists, Social Workers, and Anthropologists (ESSSWA), the Pastoral and Environmental Network for the Horn of Africa, and the International Association of Schools of Social Work.
