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 … Continue reading
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Program Management Framework Project – Progress and plans
The Program Management Framework Project was initiated to address challenges and increase efficiency and effectiveness in project delivery through the implementation of consistent management processes at ILRI. We partnered with Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) in order to design a Framework for program and project management and to have some initial support with the implementation of … Continue reading
The view from Iain’s Office – June 2016
This month has seen the most significant event for my country, the United Kingdom, since the end of the Second World War in 1945. On 23 June the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the European Union. That decision has plunged not only the UK and the rest of European Union into chaos … Continue reading
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The view from Iain’s office – May 2016
May saw us launch two major initiatives in ILRI- the Program Management Framework and the Institutional Research Ethics Committee. The Program Management Framework sets out the processes, activities and tasks that need to be carried out for efficient and effective project management. The need for such guidance has been recognized throughout the CGIAR. During a … Continue reading
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The view from Iain’s office – April 2016
In my January blog I described the initiative launched by the President of the Africa Development Bank to leverage the expertise in the CGIAR to support a major investment program in African agriculture. Planning for the ‘Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation’ initiative is now well underway. Steve Staal, Iddo Dror and I were at IITA, … Continue reading
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The view from Iain’s office – March 2016
The big event of the month of March was the completion and submission of the full proposals for the second phase of the CRPs. This was a herculean effort on the part of many, many people. We led with our partners the Livestock proposal but were heavily involved in A4NH, CCAFS, Dryland Cereals and Legumes, … Continue reading
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The view from Iain’s Office – January 2016
It was great to be back in Addis for a week in January and to attend the ILRI staff party on 14 January (with apologies for not wearing my kilt this year!). It’s always good to meet up with former colleagues and old friends. The atmosphere at the party was good and even the rain … Continue reading
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The View from Iain’s Office – December 2015
I spent the first four days of December at a write-shop at Lake Naivasha Country Club, with a team of about 25 people developing the proposal for the new Livestock CRP. While we worked on updates to the whole document, we concentrated on the C-rated parts of the pre-proposal, taking account of the comments of … Continue reading
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The view from Iain’s office – November 2015
I have had a number of comments over the last 9 months about the fact that I have not been writing my monthly ramblings and musings. So I have made an early 2016 New Year’s Resolution to be more diligent, starting from this month. Board meeting The month started in Washington with the meeting of … Continue reading
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The view from Iain’s office – October/November 2014
The first day of October was not only exactly eight years to the day since I joined ILRI as Regional Representative for Asia, but also the ILRI@40 event in Nairobi at which we recognized 40 years of livestock research at ILRI/ILRAD/ILCA with staff and stakeholders. There were introductory remarks from representatives of the organizations that … Continue reading
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