To all ILRI Ethiopia campus users: To park on campus, register your vehicle at ILRI Ethiopia Vehicle Registration & Parking Permit Form As was mentioned in a previous email, to address the shortage of parking on campus, the Engineering & Facilities Unit and the Security Unit are implementing a new parking scheme for the campus … Continue reading
Category Archives: Corporate Services
Please tell us what you think about ILRI Ethiopia Administrative Services
Please take 10-15 minutes to fill out this survey online: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/J9Z2MB9 ILRI Ethiopia Administration aims to contribute to reducing poverty, hunger and environmental degradation by ensuring value for money through efficient, effective and customer-friendly administrative services. To continually maximize donor funds, we need to know about your experience. When you take the time to fill … Continue reading
OCS- LIVE!
I am happy to inform you that all testing and adjusting of the One Corporate System (OCS) system has now been finalized, and we are now as good as ready to start trainings and go live! The module to capture our donor proposals (pipeline) is already live and next week all staff of the LG&I … Continue reading
Update on OCS implementation at ILRI (May–June)
Just to keep you all updated on the OCS developments: During the last month our team has been vigorously testing all OCS modules with a big group of users from various departments. Thanks to the great input of these users, we were able to make a lot of improvements to the system and are now … Continue reading
Update on OCS implementation at ILRI (April–May)
Hereby a quick update on the OCS implementation: After 3 weeks, we now entered the final week of intensive technical testing. Almost all modules technical and aspects of the software have now been tested successfully by our technical team: Various fixes and improvements have been made, and by the end of the week the system … Continue reading
Meet the OCS (technical) project management team
The One Corporate System (OCS) project is an initiative of nine CGIAR Centres and the Consortium Office to implement a common business information system for managing: human resources and payroll, finance and logistics (travel authorization and expenditure reporting, procurement and inventory, fixed assets management), research and project management, planner (budgeting) and project costing and billing. … Continue reading
Update on OCS implementation at ILRI: OCS is ON, but where exactly is it at and where is it headed?
New supervisor of the OCS implementation, Misja Brandenburg is happy to inform you about the current status and plans with OCS. Remember what OCS is? One Corporate System. A CGIAR-wide initiative to implement the same business system (software) for managing human resources, financial management, procurement, project management etc. OCS will replace many of the current systems … Continue reading
Guidelines on usage of taxi services
During a recent review of external taxi services, a material level of non-work related use was found to have been incurred by staff who have now been required to reimburse such costs back to ILRI. We therefore wish to remind all staff that they are required to fully comply with ILRI’s existing transport policy, which … 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