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
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Engineering / Ethiopia / ILRI / Official
Addis campus infrastructure works
Dear Colleagues: This is a quick update on some infrastructure works currently taking place at ILRI Ethiopia Addis campus. Car parking project: – Currently car parking construction is been taking place in four different areas paved with cobble stone. Two of them are faced each other at the back of the Infocentre and left side … Continue reading
CIMMYT campus wide seminar invitation
CIMMYT is presenting Prof. Thomas Berger (see the attached shortbiography) from Hohenheim University, Germany. He is going to give a campus wide seminar on: Farmers adaptation to climate variability in Ethiopia – Can we provide robust policy options? When: April 19th at 10:00-11:00 AM at Infocenter meeting room You all are Welcome! Aklilework Bekele (CIMMYT) 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
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
Electronics ban from hand luggage
You might already have heard about new restrictions on hand luggage on flights to USA and UK, banning laptops & tablets from flight from certain countries and airlines. Our travel agents in Nairobi and Addis are aware of the situation and were asked to warn you when booking a flight affected by this. For those … Continue reading
ILRI Ethiopia: Stores Unit Closure for 2017 1st Quarter Stock-take Exercise
ILRI Ethiopia Stores Unit will carry out the 2017 1st Quarter Stock-take exercise from 29th – 31st March 2017. During this period, only emergency requests will be attended. 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, 3rd … Continue reading
Seminar in Addis Ababa: In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution. By Professor Keijiro Otsuka
Bioversity International moves to new offices on ILRI campus
From 15 March onwards, Bioversity offices will now be located in the newly built ARSI building, by the old garage. All the Bioversity offices can be found on the left wing of the building. Thank you, Yemisrach Regassa Continue reading
ILRI campus wide seminar “Finding the Sweet Spot between Youth, Innovation, and Agribusiness”
“Finding the Sweet Spot between Youth, Innovation, and Agribusiness” CIMMYT is proud to present Dr Eleni Z Gabre-Madhin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, blueMoon When: March 23rd at 2 PM Lalibela auditorium, ABSTRACT Like elsewhere in Africa, 64% of Ethiopia’s population is below the age of 24. An astounding 20 million people, or nearly the … Continue reading
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