In July 2015, 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. The PM Framework Project completed its Program/Project Management workshops in late June 2016 to program leaders, project leaders, program/project management staff, and select support staff … Continue reading
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Directorate / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official
ILRI Review and Planning Meeting (IPM) 2016
Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to learn that over 150 ILRI staff have signed up for IPM so far and encourage those of you who have not to do so very soon. This will be the first IPM for three years, and for many of you, the first time you get to meet your colleagues … Continue reading
Seminar at JVC on Monday 19th Sept. at 1000hrs – Presenter, Dr. Musa Hassan, currently a Wellcome Trust funded fellow at the University of Glasgow
Guest seminar – Understanding Host-Parasite interactions: Genetic and immunological insights into Toxoplasma-host coevolution Presenter – Dr. Musa Hassan is currently a Wellcome Trust funded fellow at the University of Glasgow. His research uses methods in genetics, genomics, immunology and computational biology to elucidate the mechanisms that underlie susceptibility to infectious diseases. Currently, his work focuses … Continue reading
Registration for ILRI IPM 2016 Nairobi: Dates 4 – 7 October 2016.
Registration for ILRI IPM 2016 Nairobi: Dates 4 – 7 October 2016. # Better Science; Better Lives (Sayansi Bora; Maisha Bora) If you plan to attend the IPM, we urgently need you to: 1. Complete a pre-IPM survey to help us enrich the IPM agenda: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ilri-ipm2016 2. REGISTER to attend the IPM at: https://ipm2016.eventbrite.com · … Continue reading
New procurement policy and practice guidelines
Dear all, In order to improve the procurement services institute wide, the supply chain unit is happy to hereby present the new updated procurement policy. It is now better catered for a more modern and pragmatic procurement process, by including On-line purchasing, use of credit cards, higher thresholds and more possibilities for fast single sourcing, … Continue reading
Directorate / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official
IPM 2016 4th – 7th October 2016; Registration information
Dear Colleagues Greetings. As indicated earlier in a message by Iain Wright, ILRI will hold its Institutional Planning Meeting (IPM) in Nairobi from 4 – 7 October 2016. The IPM presents a great opportunity for all “ILRI” to know what “ILRI” is doing around the globe. In 2016, the IPM will focus on ILRI’s science … Continue reading
Announcing the 2016 Norman E. Borlaug Field Award Winner!
Dr. Andrew Mude 2016 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation Recipient Dr. Andrew Mude was announced today as the winner of the 2016 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, for his work in developing insurance for never-before-insured communities whose livelihoods depend … Continue reading
Invitation to Nairobi event announcing the 2016 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application
Colleagues, Tomorrow, 30th August 2016, we host an important event at the ILRI Nairobi campus. Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn, President of the World Food Prize Foundation will personally announce this year’s Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application. Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, the award is presented every October in Des Moines, Iowa, by … Continue reading
Impending changes to your ILRI login
To facilitate improvements to ICT services, the ICT team will be making a change in the way that you login to ILRI systems. The change for users will be, using CGIARAD\Username or your email address instead of ILRI\Username to all services e.g. Email, Intranet, OCS and all other services and systems requiring network authentication. We … Continue reading
Appointment of Assistant Director General, Biosciences – Dr. Dieter Josef Schillinger
It is my pleasure to introduce Dr. Dieter Josef Schillinger, who will be joining ILRI on 1st September 2016 as Assistant Director General, Biosciences. Dieter’s remit will include leading ILRI’s upstream research in animal and human health (including vaccines and diagnostics development), animal breeding and genetics, and feed resources development. Dieter Schillinger is a veterinarian … Continue reading
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