It was great to be back in Addis for a week in January and to attend the ILRI staff party on 14 January (with apologies for not wearing my kilt this year!). It’s always good to meet up with former colleagues and old friends. The atmosphere at the party was good and even the rain … Continue reading
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Sign up for the 2016 Women First 5km Run (Ethiopia)
Notice, We are glad to inform you that ILRI will sponsor the first 60 CGIAR women staff who would like to take part in the 2016 women first 5km run. Interested staff of CGIAR can sign-up at the Zebu club at any time. Others may sign-up and pay the registration fee ( ETB 120) and … Continue reading
ILRI Addis Engineering Unit survey schedule
Kindly note that Engineering Unit team will start the annual condition survey of the office buildings as per the schedule below: Borena 1/2/2016 Menze 1/2/2016 Afar … Continue reading
ILRI Addis power outage update
Tomorrow 30 January (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.), ILRI Addis E & FU team has planned to connect a new electric line to the main power supply line of the Borena, Gumuz, Sululta, Info Center, Cafeteria and Zebu buildings. This serves as a backup route in case of emergency. Apologies for any inconvenience this might cause to you. EFU … Continue reading
ILRI Addis Engineering monthly staff meeting
Please be informed that the Engineering staff will hold its monthly meeting tomorrow Thursday, January 28, 2016 from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. We therefore will not be available to handle any maintenance requests during this time. Kindly send any critical maintenance requests by 9.00 a.m tomorrow. For more information: To report any maintenance request, … Continue reading
ICT shared service desk
For three months since the ICRAF/ILRI ICT services unit has been using a new software platform to manage ICT incidents and service requests. To further improve efficiency and quality of ICT support services, I’m delighted to announce that, with effect from Wednesday, January 20, 2016, we will put a new ICT ServiceDesk into operation. The … Continue reading
ILRI Addis power outrage
ILRI Addis E & FU team has planned to conduct the following activities on Saturday, January 16th from 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m: Semi-annual planned preventive maintenance on backup generator sets, In the meantime we’ll be conducting emergency drill training for the maintenance crew to better equip and coordinate the crew in case of emergency. We’ll … Continue reading
Addis Campus Power Interruption – 9 January 2016
ILRI Addis E & FU team has planned a power outage on Saturday, January 9th, 2016 from 9:30a.m. – 11:30 p.m in order to do preventive maintenance work for the generator, emergency team drill and to execute power cable connections in some area. Apologies for any inconvenience this might cause to you. ILRI Addis Engineering team Continue reading
Wegagen Bank moved out of ILRI campus
We would like to inform you that starting January 4, 2016 Wegagen bank has moved to its new branch office. This is located at Ebenezer building 1st floor. The name of the branch is “Gurd Shola”. We have confirmed that the branch will provide all the banking services to ILRI staff as usual. For additional … Continue reading
Notice from ILRI Addis Credit Association
Please note that Sileshi Mirani, Credit Association’s accountant, has resigned from ICARDA as of December 28. We are therefore unable to entertain any loan request coming in January until his replacement is nominated. Thank you. Continue reading