ILRI Nairobi Campus Offices have had a surprising number of pests find their way inside. Many of us have seen ants marching into the coffee rooms or gnats hovering around indoor plants—or heard a co-worker complaining about itchy bites. When pests invade, you may be tempted to spray them yourself or demand that your building … Continue reading
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Change of ICT Service Desk System
The ILRI/ICRAF ICT services unit is changing the software that we use for managing incident and service requests. From today onwards you will receive confirmation and update messages that have slightly different content and formatting to what was previously sent. The existing support process and service levels are unchanged. Background: ICRAF and ILRI are changing … Continue reading
OCS -LIVE !!!!!!
Happy to announce that today Nairobi and Addis went fully live with all phase 1 OCS modules. This means that as of today, the ‘paper-trail’ procedures for the travel and procurement are history and will no longer be accepted. As of now, all travel request, travel expense requests and Procurement request can only be done … Continue reading
Tuesday 13th October PETMA Restaurant lunch menu
CREAM OF ROAST PUMPKIN/FRESHLY BAKED ROLLS @KSHS.100 ASSORTED FRESH VEG SALADS AND DRESSINGS @KSHS.160, 80 AND 40 MAIN DISHES HONEY AND MUSTARD GLAZED PORK @KSHS.300 POT ROAST BEEF-RED ONION GRAVY @KSHS.280 FRIED GOAT CUTLETS ASLA PETMA@KSHS.200 GREEN DHALL CURRY @KSHS.150 GREEK VEGETABLE MOUSAKKA @KSHS.280 CHICKEN SHARWAMA @KSHS.300 FRENCH FRIED POTATOES@KSHS.80 SERVED WITH A CHOICE OF … Continue reading
Monday 12 October 2015 Petma restaurant lunch menu
CARROTS AND CINAMON SOUP/FRESHLY BAKED ROLLS @KSHS.100 ASSORTED FRESH VEG SALADS AND DRESSINGS @KSHS.160, 80 AND 40 MAIN DISHES OSSO BUCCO GREMOLATA @KSHS.250 SWAHILI BEEF PILAU @KSHS.250 ROAST CHICKEN A LA PETMA@KSHS.350 RED BEANS IN COCONUT SAUCE @KSHS.150 VEGETABLE LASAGNE @KSHS.280 PORK SHARWAMA @KSHS.300 MASALLA CHIPS@KSHS.120 SERVED WITH A CHOICE OF STEAMED RICE, CHAPATI & … Continue reading
Photo on your email message
Your email client, Outlook, supports having a small picture to emails you send to (your pictures) or receive from (sender’s picture) along with the display name. This helps making a face to a name in your emails. In a geographically dispersed teams or large organizations like ILRI it’s great to be able to put a … Continue reading
Nairobi Hospice presents voices for Hospices
Liya Dejene to be communications fellow at the CGIAR Consortium
Liya Dejene from CKM has been appointed as the 2015-2016 Communications Fellow at the Consortium Office. She starts on 1 October, for one year joining the Consortium Office Strategy team. She joins Metasebia and Benjamin – both ICT fellows – in bringing ILRI expertise to Montpellier. The Consortium Communications Fellowship is going into its third year. The … Continue reading
Perdiem rates and calculator
I’m happy to hereby present you with two things at once: The new perdiem (DSA) rates for all national and international travel, valid as per 1/10/15 An excel Tool to help you calculate and claim the perdiem for a certain trip. The Perdiem rates are, as according to IMC decision, based upon official UN rates … Continue reading
ILRI Kenya: Housing and Conferencing staff monthly meeting
The Housing and conferencing staff will be holding their staff monthly meeting tomorrow 29th September, 2015 From 2.00 to 4.00 pm. Kindly send all request early enough to avoid any inconveniences. Thanks Mary Continue reading