Danilo Pezo, who is our Country Representative in Uganda has expressed his wish to retire and we have been planning for his succession. I am pleased to inform you that from 1 May 2015 Ben Lukuyu will be re-locating from Nairobi to Kampala. He will provide research input to our program on pig value chains … Continue reading
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ILRI Ethiopia: Gym construction
We delighted to announce that we awarded the GYM construction work and will start mobilization at the end of February 2015. In order to resume the service, we are preparing the temporary GYM space located near to basketball playing area. Please kindly note that we will close the existing GYM starting from Wednesday 23rd of … Continue reading
ILRI Kenya: Catering kitchen closed for routine maintenance over the weekend
The Catering Kitchen will remain closed on Saturday 21st to Sunday 22nd February, 2015 for routine maintenance. Kindly send any request you may need for the weekend before midday on Friday 20th February, 2015. We sincerely apologies for any inconveniences this may cause Kind regards Mary Email: m.atieno@cgiar.org Continue reading
ICT Services Announcements – Get ICT services quickly
ICT Services has set up A new blog site for announcements. Links will be posted to ILRI Announcements. Only urgent messages will be sent by email in future (a contribution to reducing the amount of email). A quick reference page with contact details for ICT Services: servicedesk.ilri.org. This URL is all you need to remember. … Continue reading
ILRI Kenya Friday Morning Coffee (FMC) – January 09, 2015
Happy new year Colleagues, Welcome to Friday Morning Coffee! Let’s all meet Outside Ndama Lounge at 10:30 am. Continue reading
Update on ILRI’s business development strategy and proposal development guidelines
This is to let you all know that we have updated the proposal development process for internal use in the institute. The set of files include: ILRI proposal development decision tree which includes: Pre-proposal development process (steps 1-4) Proposal development process Contracts & agreements process (by the IP & Legal Unit) ILRI guidelines and proposal … Continue reading
ILRI Kenya: Stores unit closure for stock-take
Stores Unit will carry out the End of Year stock-take exercise for Year 2014 from 15th – 19th December 2014. During this period, only emergency requests will be attended to. You are therefore kindly requested to submit your requests by COB, tomorrow, December 10, 2014. Normal operations will resume on Friday, December 19, 2014. Apologies … Continue reading
ILRI town hall – ILRI strategy and the CGIAR Consortium
On 4 December, Jimmy Smith held a town hall for all staff.
He updated staff on the following:
CGIAR reform
Structure to engage in CRPs
ILRI@40
ILRI budget: ILRI full cost recovery
ILRI infrastructure and more… Continue reading
Workshop report from the CGIAR Consortium CapDev Community of Practice annual meeting 2014
The 2014 Annual workshop of the CGIAR Consortium CapDev Community of Practice was held from September 10–12, 2014 at CGIAR Consortium Headquarters, Montpellier, France. The workshop was planned by a CapDev Convening Committee comprised of Iddo Dror (ILRI), Diana Brandes (Livestock & Fish), Per Rudebjer (Bioversity), Simone Staiger (CIAT), Mehmood Hassan (ICRAF), Javier Ekboir (ILAC), … Continue reading
ILRI Kenya – Café Royale invites you to the Mugithi night
When: Friday, November 28, 2014 Where: ILRI Enkare club Time: 4:30 p.m. till late Who: Everyone – Invite your friends to come too!!! Come shake a leg to hot tunes from the likes of Mike Rua, Salim Junior, Sam Muraya and a host of other artists from central Kenya by no other then – “DJ GABO” Come … Continue reading