Katin Eje Presents “DANCEHALL PARTY KINGS & QUEENS” – BACK IN THE 90’s At the ILRI Enkare Club from 4:30 p.m. till late Come join us this Friday 25th October, 2016. Music by QH The DJ Everyone ……… invite your friends CHEERS!!!!! Mary Continue reading
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2016 performance reviews and setting of 2017 performance agreements
Dear colleagues, As announced by the Director General during the town hall held on 11th November 2016, it is time for 2016 staff performance reviews. This is an opportunity for supervisors to engage staff in a dialogue about how well they performed during the year and to discuss goals for the coming year. We thank … Continue reading
National staff appointments: Nairobi, June – September 2016
Leah Joyce Symekher joined the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) as the Capacity Development Officer in the CapDev Unit in June 2016. She will manage the fellowship program, undertake capacity development for ILRI projects and partners. Leah joins ILRI after 10 years’ professional experience in instruction, training & development and research. Previously she worked at … Continue reading
International staff appointments, July – September 2016
Dieter Josef Schillinger joined ILRI in September 2016 as Assistant Director General, Biosciences. His responsibilities will include leading ILRI’s upstream research in animal and human health (including vaccines and diagnostics development), animal breeding and genetics, and feed resources development. He is a veterinarian with 30 years’ experience in the animal health industry that includes experience … Continue reading
Nairobi campus – new grounds maintenance provider
This is to introduce Evergreen Horticulture East Africa Ltd. as the new Grounds Maintenance provider for ILRI Nairobi campus with effect from November 1, 2016. Evergreen takes over from the incumbent, Farmline EA Ltd. Some staff from Farmline have been retained by the new company for continuity and smooth transition. The scope of services previously … Continue reading
KATIN-EJE Presents HALLOWEEN Party – Friday 28th October, 2016
Katin Eje Presents “HALLOWEEN PARTY” – BACK IN THE 90’s At the ILRI Enkare Club from 4:30 p.m. till late. Come join us this Friday 28th October, 2016. Music by QH The D. Everyone ……… invite your friends. CHEERS!!!!! Mary Continue reading
OpenCon Nairobi 2016 – 28th October @RCMRD, Ruaraka, Nairobi
This week is Open Access Week. What are you doing in support of a more open system in sharing the world information, including Journal Articles. You can share a word in your Journal Club and to your colleagues. You can also commit to put action in one way or another as many have already done. … Continue reading
Problem With HR4U Leave Application Alert
This is to inform you that we have a problem with HR4U leave alerts. Supervisors are currently not receiving alerts when a staff applies for leave. We are working on this and we will let you know once its solved. In the meantime, supervisors can check any pending leave approvals by logging into HR4U. Kindy … Continue reading
Nairobi campus infrastructure works
Dear Campus users, I just want to quickly update you on some infrastructure works currently, or soon, taking place on the Campus: Signage: In order to present ourselves more as a CGIAR compound, we are increasing our CGIAR branding; A big CGIAR logo was added to the big signage tower at the entrance. This tower … Continue reading
Peter Doherty videos on ILRI and its work
Peter Doherty, Australian Nobel Laureate, at the adoption of the FAO Declaration on Global Freedom from Rinderpest (photo credit: ©FAO/Alessandra Benedetti). Earlier this year, Peter Doherty, Nobel Prize Laureate for Physiology or Medicine–1996 agreed to become a patron of ILRI. He recently recorded six short video interviews about different dimensions of ILRI’s research: International livestock … Continue reading