We wish to extend an invitation to a seminar presentation on “ICRISAT in Ethiopia: Working with partners for prosperous and resilient dryland systems” this week on Thursday, 21st July. Please take time to come and support our colleague Tilahun Amede (ICRISAT). Please circulate the invitation to your partners. Boni (ILRI DG Representative) Continue reading
Category Archives: Ethiopia
Please update your ILRI Email Signature
As you are hopefully aware, CGIAR recently underwent some major governance changes (see: http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-governance) We no longer have a CGIAR consortium, we have a ‘system organization’ with various governance, management and advisory bodies. Among other things, this means we need to update our email signatures! Please help us by doing this as soon as you … 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
Zebu Club – Nominations for “invited members”
Please kindly note that we would like to announce due to the opening of the new GYM, we open the nomination for twenty-five invited members for zebu club. Nominations will be reviewed on a first-come first-serve basis. If the sub-committee determines that the nomination meets the criteria, it will accept the membership until the available … Continue reading
ILRI Ethiopia Finance Office re-organization
The Ethiopia finance unit has made re-organization with the aim of attaining more efficiency and supporting the research and the organizations hosted in the campus the best it could. The structure is mainly focused on service orientation and is expected to reduce the cycle time and quality of the services delivered by the unit. To … Continue reading
P&OD Re-design exercise communication
ILRI management realizes the integral part that staff play in the support and furtherance of the science and as such, it became apparent the need for ILRI to adopt a cohesive, integrated and modern approach to Compensation and Benefits to enhance the attraction and retention of a motivated, high caliber workforce, making ILRI a premier … Continue reading
Addis Finance office closed – July 13th 2016
The ILRI Ethiopia Finance Office will be having its quarterly meeting tomorrow the 13th of July, 2016. As a result the office will be closed on this date from 9:00a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Benyam Befirdu Continue reading
Workstation Backup – Update 11/07/2016
Workstation Data Backup is a critical service provided by the ICT unit to reduce the risk of data loss in the event of an event such as, a computer crash, loss/theft of a computer, etc. Backup is mandatory for institutional devices, to comply with security and audit requirements. In the interest of securing your data, … Continue reading
ILRI Addis Environmental, Occupational Health and Safety (EOHS) audit
There will be Environmental, Occupational Health and Safety (EOHS) external auditors from Nairobi at ILRI Addis campus on July 12 and 13, 2016. Site inspection, EOHS document review and employees health and safety practice on site are the main elements of the audit. Laboratories, kitchens, hostels, stores, recreation areas, workshops/generator unit, garage, water treatment, waste … Continue reading
Food for Thought – Refugees Encounter a Foreign Word: Welcome!
Last Saturday on my flight from Amsterdam to Nairobi I came across the article in this link in the International New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/americas/canada-syrian-refugees.html?_r=0 It is worth a read if you can at all afford the time. It relates to Canada and the ongoing global refugee crisis. Of course, the number of refugees taken in … Continue reading
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