Colleagues, Tomorrow, 30th August 2016, we host an important event at the ILRI Nairobi campus. Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn, President of the World Food Prize Foundation will personally announce this year’s Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application. Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, the award is presented every October in Des Moines, Iowa, by … Continue reading
Category Archives: Official
Impending changes to your ILRI login
To facilitate improvements to ICT services, the ICT team will be making a change in the way that you login to ILRI systems. The change for users will be, using CGIARAD\Username or your email address instead of ILRI\Username to all services e.g. Email, Intranet, OCS and all other services and systems requiring network authentication. We … Continue reading
Appointment of Assistant Director General, Biosciences – Dr. Dieter Josef Schillinger
It is my pleasure to introduce Dr. Dieter Josef Schillinger, who will be joining ILRI on 1st September 2016 as Assistant Director General, Biosciences. Dieter’s remit 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. Dieter Schillinger is a veterinarian … Continue reading
ILRI Ethiopia Hosted Organizations staff Medical Surveillance Program
Please be informed that the Medical surveillance for ILRI Ethiopia Hosted Organizations staff will be conducted subsequently from the ILRI Ethiopia staff program as of August 29 – 31, 2016 as per the schedule communicated earlier. The venue is D-Block suit rooms 60 and 62; Time is morning from 9:00 – 12:00am and afternoon from … Continue reading
Engineering staff monthly meeting – August 25, 2016
Please be informed that Engineering staff will hold its monthly meeting tomorrow Thursday, August 25, 2016 from 10.30 am to 12.30 p.m. We shall therefore not be available to handle maintenance jobs during this time.. For any critical maintenance requirements, please send your request by 9.00 a.m. tomorrow. For further information: To report any maintenance … Continue reading
ILRI Ethiopia Medical Surveillance – Reminder and additional information
The medical surveillance will be conducted as of August 22 – 26, 2016. Please see below some additional information: Venue is changed to B Block Suite rooms 60 & 62 (there will be signage at the Zebu club to guide you to the places) Reception is at Suite room 62 and then you will be … Continue reading
ILRI NEWS BLOG: No one dietary choice is the answer to sustainable development ILRI/Jimmy Smith in ‘The Guardian’ yesterday
Illustration via Twitter. The following opinion piece, by Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), was first published in The Guardian on 16 Aug 2016, in response to an opinion piece published by environmental reporter George Monbiot in the same paper on 9 Aug 2016 (I’ve converted to veganism to reduce … Continue reading
ILRI Addis: Medical surveillance program, 22 – 26 August, 2016
Please find attached the medical surveillance program August 22 – 26, 2016. ILRI Addis NRSIRS and Hosted organisation staff Medical Surveillance Program August 22 – 26 2016 Zewdu Hailu | Environmental, Occupational Health and Safety Officer Continue reading
Yammer Upgrade on 8 August
Since at least 2008, many CGIAR staff members have been using Yammer to share updates and discuss their work. Yammer is part of Office 365, and it is about to get upgraded. Our private enterprise social network is getting better! From 8 August, those of us using Office 365 will be able to access Yammer … Continue reading
Program Management Framework next steps and process owners
As many of you are aware we have been working with Accenture Development Partnerships for the past year developing the Program Management Framework (PMF). The Framework has now been designed and rolled out at a series of training workshops which many of you attended. The contract with Accenture Development Partnerships has concluded and Jenny Brately … Continue reading
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