EOHS / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official

World Day for Safety and Health at Work – April 28

Today is World Day for Safety and Health at Work.  This is an awareness-raising day intended to focus international attention on how promoting and creating a safety and health culture can help in reducing work-related injuries and diseases. EOHS would like to take this opportunity to share with you health and safety guidelines on Occupational … Continue reading

Directorate / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official

The view from Iain’s office – March 2017

International Women’s Day On International Women’s Day (8 March), People and Organizational Development (P&OD) organized a special event to highlight the occasion. I gave a short presentation on diversity and inclusion in the workplace to set the scene, which then led into other presentations and discussions on gender in the workplace at ILRI and gender … Continue reading

CKM / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official

ILRI style guide updated

The latest version of the ILRI style guide by the Communications and Knowledge Management Unit is available on the ILRI Comms wiki. The guide is designed to ensure consistency within and across Institute publications, in language usage, visual composition, orthography and typography. Its primary purpose is to promote best practice in: ethics (authorship, open access, … Continue reading

ILRI / Kenya / Official

ILRI Kenya: Stores Unit Closure for 2017 1st Quarter Stock-take Exercise

ILRI Kenya Stores Unit will carry out the 2017 1st Quarter Stock-take exercise from 30th – 31st March 2017. During this period, only emergency requests will be attended to. You are therefore kindly requested to submit your warehouse order requests through the OCS by mid-day, Tuesday 28th  March 2017. Normal operations will resume on Monday, … Continue reading

Directorate / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official

The view from Iain’s office – February 2017

Supporting the Department of Veterinary Services, Nairobi In January our neighbours in Nairobi at the Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) suffered a fire which destroyed much of their administrative building. Following a visit by Jimmy, Dieter, Edward Okoth, Eric Fevre, Bernard Bett, Keith Huma and myself we agreed to provide some computer equipment, IT support … Continue reading