As many of you are aware we have been working with Accenture Development Partnerships for the past year developing the Program Management Framework (PMF). The Framework has now been designed and rolled out at a series of training workshops which many of you attended. The contract with Accenture Development Partnerships has concluded and Jenny Brately who was leading the process has returned to the US. To ensure that we continue to develop the Framework in the light of experience and provide the necessary support to users we have asked the four Process Owners to continue supporting the different processes:

Nadine Sanginga: Proposal Development

Jasmine Bruno: Project Planning

Assenath Kabugi: Project Executing & Closing

Simon Turere: Program Management

In addition we have asked Assenath to be the Coordinator/Facilitator of the group. If you have comments or queries about the PMF processes you should direct then to the relevant process owner. Comments/queries about the PMF in general should be directed to Assenath. The team will also be working to prioritize what needs to be done to improve the PMF over the next few months. As part of a review of how best to support program and project management with different roles and responsibilities we will be looking at how best to support the PMF and how you use it in the longer term.

In the meantime we are grateful to Nadine, Jasmine, Assenath and Simon for supporting the process.

I remind you that more information on the PMF is available on ILRINET at https://www.ilri.org/pmf or go to ILRINET > ILRI by department > Program Management Framework.

Best Wishes

Iain

Iain A Wright| Deputy Director General – Integrated Sciences