Please join us for an all staff meeting to hear an update on ILRI’s Program Management Framework Project on Friday, 13 May 2016 (11:00-12:30) at the JVC auditorium (and other ILRI locations via WebEx). In July 2015, the Program Management (PM) Framework Project was initiated to address challenges and increase efficiency and effectiveness in project delivery … Continue reading
In my January blog I described the initiative launched by the President of the Africa Development Bank to leverage the expertise in the CGIAR to support a major investment program in African agriculture. Planning for the ‘Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation’ initiative is now well underway. Steve Staal, Iddo Dror and I were at IITA, … Continue reading
The big event of the month of March was the completion and submission of the full proposals for the second phase of the CRPs. This was a herculean effort on the part of many, many people. We led with our partners the Livestock proposal but were heavily involved in A4NH, CCAFS, Dryland Cereals and Legumes, … Continue reading
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
I spent the first four days of December at a write-shop at Lake Naivasha Country Club, with a team of about 25 people developing the proposal for the new Livestock CRP. While we worked on updates to the whole document, we concentrated on the C-rated parts of the pre-proposal, taking account of the comments of … Continue reading
I have had a number of comments over the last 9 months about the fact that I have not been writing my monthly ramblings and musings. So I have made an early 2016 New Year’s Resolution to be more diligent, starting from this month. Board meeting The month started in Washington with the meeting of … Continue reading
Dear Colleagues As you are aware, the recent ILRI board of trustees meeting took place in Washington DC, USA, with this change of venue to enable the DG and board chair to participate in critical CGIAR meetings which took place at the same time. This change of venue precluded holding the usual Town Hall where … Continue reading
I would like to thank all of you who contributed to the successful launch of the Programme Management Framework Project by providing feedback to the Accenture Development Partnerships Team in Introductory Sessions held from June 24th to August 6th in Nairobi, Addis, and with regional staff representatives. During this time, we conducted fifty meetings attended … Continue reading
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
The first day of October was not only exactly eight years to the day since I joined ILRI as Regional Representative for Asia, but also the ILRI@40 event in Nairobi at which we recognized 40 years of livestock research at ILRI/ILRAD/ILCA with staff and stakeholders. There were introductory remarks from representatives of the organizations that … Continue reading
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