The first month of the year, January, has been extremely busy. We all enjoyed the Addis Staff Party on 17 January, which was an opportunity to relax, appreciate good food and enjoy ourselves thanks to the hard work of the organising committee and the Housing and Catering Staff. Frank Rijsberman, CEO of the CGIAR Consortium … Continue reading
Announcing the shift from ‘CaSt’ to ‘CapDev’ Iddo introduces what the new capacity development unit will be working on… Watch the video, visit the wiki … Continue reading
See Jimmy’s presentation from the town hall on 4 February … about strategy and structure: Continue reading
ILRI Nairobi’s Friday Morning Coffee (FMC) announcement. Listen In! Continue reading
In the second half of 2012, the KMIS and PA teams at ILRI got together to update and revamp a wide range of ILRI information products, materials, designs, logo, and other elements of our overall visual identity and branding. This was partly driven by new CGIAR branding guidelines; we also wanted to give our work … Continue reading
ILRI Nairobi’s Friday Morning Coffee (FMC) announcement. Listen In! Continue reading
I have just returned from 12 days in the UK, over the Christmas and New Year period. While it was great to spend time with my family I did not enjoy the cold, wet and windy weather in Scotland! It is good to be back to the sunshine in Ethiopia – the land of 13 … Continue reading
As the year draws to a close and we look forward to 2013, it is also time for us to welcome our two new Deputy Directors-General (DDGs) to ILRI. You will recall that we had, some months ago, an intensive recruitment and interview process which led to the selection of two Deputy Directors-General. Suzanne Bertrand, … Continue reading
Iddo Dror joined ILRI as Head of Capacity Development on 25 October 2012. He has more than ten years’ capacity development experience gained in academia and international development, combined with experience in teaching, research, and fellowship administration. Dror career track has included assignments with UN agencies and the private sector, several years at the University … Continue reading
Several Post-doctoral fellows, a research associate, a research assistant and PhD students recently joined the Biotechnology group in ILRI Ethiopia to work in different projects. Post-doctoral fellows and research associates Kefena Effa is a post- doctoral fellow with Biotech Addis Group starting from 1st of December 2012. In his stay with ILRI he will be … Continue reading
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