FAO representative in Ethiopia, Ms. Farayi Zimudi and her team made discussions with MU team on establishing a working team comprising Mekelle University, FAO Ethiopia, FAO Tigray and Tigray Bureau of Agriculture. They moreover, identified priority areas for mutual partnership and collaboration. They also made deal on finding out opportunities on how Mekelle University  could be engaged in the ongoing projects of FAO; searching for possible logistics support and collaborating further in mutual resource mobilization.

Dr. kiros Guesh- Head of Tigray Education Bureau in the opening session said that such workshops are very important for the revitalization of education in Tigray. Papers on thematic areas of psychological recovery, school feeding, implementing accelarated learing as a strategy for recovering loss and building back better, minimum standard for education in emergencies and international exprience and implemantation in Tigray are presented and discussed in the workshop.