Corporate Services / East Africa / Ethiopia / ILRI / Official / Operations

REMINDER: Tell us what you think of ILRI Ethiopia Administrative Services

Dear ILRI Campus Users, Tell us what you think Are advance payments made on time? The Internet speed sufficient to do your work? Does the cafeteria provides good quality food? Does security appropriately inspects bags and vehicles? Answer these question and more on the 2016 ILRI Ethiopia Admin Customer Satisfaction Survey http://www.surveymonkey.net/r/EthAdmin Last chance is … Continue reading

Corporate Services / East Africa / Ethiopia / ILRI / OCS / Official / Operations

ILRI Ethiopia stores unit – mid year counting

Dear All, ILRI Ethiopia stores unit will closed to carry out the 2016 mid-Year Stock-take exercise 22–24 June, 2016. You are therefore, kindly requested to submit your Warehouse Order requests through the OCS before June 22, 2016. Normal operations will resume on Monday, 27 June 2016. Apologies for short notice and any inconveniences this may … Continue reading

Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official

Introducing Leah Symekher

Leah has over 10 years’ experience in instruction, training & development and research. A Kenyan, Leah started her career as a research assistant at the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission supporting the Commission’s task forces on various research activities in constitution and constitutional themes. She was further engaged in public policy research in education while … Continue reading

BecA / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official

The BecA-ILRI Hub pays tribute to the late professor James Ochanda

Professor James Ochanda, a former coordinator (2004 – 2005) of the Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub, director of the Centre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (CEBIB) and strong proponent for the advancement of bioscience research in Africa has died. Until his passing on 27 May 2016, Ochanda was a professor at … Continue reading

Ethiopia / ILRI / Official

Tell us what you think of ILRI Ethiopia Administrative Services

Take a few minutes to fill out this survey: The ILRI Ethiopia Administration units have been engaged in series of activities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of all admin units (People &Organization Development (P&OD), Finance, Supply Chain Unit, Housing, Catering & Conferencing, ICT, Engineering & Facilities, Liaison & Protocol, and Security). We would appreciate … Continue reading

Directorate / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official

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

Directorate / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official / POD

Promotions in 2015 of staff in the scientific cadre

Colleagues, Three years ago we changed the titles of scientific positions and put in place a promotion mechanism for the scientific cadre of ILRI. Beyond the post-doctoral category, the three scientific titles were changed from Scientific 1, Scientist 2 and Scientist 3 to Scientist, Senior Scientist and Principal Scientist respectively. Each category has very clear … Continue reading