Flavio Sacchini joined the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) as mycoplasma research specialist in January 2016. He is a member of the Vaccine Biosciences group and his task is to develop a live vaccine for contagious caprine pleuropneumonia together with colleagues and collaborators from ILRI and the University of Bern, Switzerland. Sacchini’s background is in veterinary … Continue reading
Category Archives: Official
Introducing health and safety representatives – Nairobi
We are pleased to introduce the ILRI Nairobi Health and Safety Representatives. These are staff elected or selected to represent occupational health and safety interests within their respective units. Their roles include but are not limited to : Identification and reporting of workplace hazards Making recommendations on health and safety improvements Carry out activities for … Continue reading
ILRI-IWMI collaborative Study on livestock movements in Ethiopia
BY ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) AND IWMI (International Water Management Institute) ILRI and IWMI in Ethiopia are undertaking a study of livestock (land use patterns, movements, highland-lowland independencies, related socio-economic and cultural practices) in the Bale Eco-Region of the country. The study is a contribution to the EU-funded SHARE Bale Eco-Region project implemented by … Continue reading
ILRI Ethiopia staff appointments: January–March 2016
Solomon Wakjira has been appointed as Life Guard in Housing, Catering, Conference Services and Zebu Club and Environmental, Occupational Health & Safety effective 15 January 2016. Solomon has Diploma in Accounting and Bookkeeping from Technical & Vocational Education in 1994 and he has certificates for attending Life Saving training from Ethiopian Swimming Federation, coaching swimming … Continue reading
ILRI Addis – 1st Quarter Stock-take
ILR Ethiopia Stores Unit will carry out its 2016 1st Quarter Stock-take exercise from 28th – 31st March 2016. During this period, only emergency and gas oil requests will be attended. Delivery time for gas oil will be from 8:30 a.m. up to 10:00 a.m. only. You are therefore kindly requested to submit your warehouse … Continue reading
ILRI Kenya: Stores Unit Closure for 2016 1st Quarter Stock-take exercise
ILR Kenya Stores Unit will carry out the 2016 1st Quarter Stock-take exercise from 29th – 31st March 2016. 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, Thursday 24th March 2016. Normal operations will resume on Friday, … Continue reading
ILRI Addis pay slip link
Kindly visit the following URL by using the instructions below In order to view your pay slips. http://esseth.ilri.cgiar.org/ After opening the above URL you should get the next page on your browser. Please enter your windows credentials as (ilri\username) and click the button that says “sign in “as shown in the screen shot below. E.g. … Continue reading
‘High resolution regional climate modeling for West Africa’ by Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann
LSE Seminar Wednesday, March 16, 2016 3:30 pm | Nairobi Time (Nairobi, GMT+03:00) | 2 hrs Join WebEx meeting Meeting password: 24NW Join by phone 0800-051-3810 Call-in toll-free number (UK) +44-203-478-5289 Call-in toll number (UK) Access code: 847 358 529 Global call-in numbers | Toll-free calling restrictions Continue reading
Communications and knowledge management – news update
Here are some recent updates on the CKM team. First, to inform you that we are pleased to announce that Peter Ballantyne has relocated to Nairobi as from 1 March 2016, although he only just arrived in Nairobi as he was on official mission travel to India during the first days of the month. … Continue reading
ILRI-DAAD PhD Scholarships 2016 – calls for applications
ILRI-DAAD PhD Scholarship: Animal science for sustainable Productivity (ASSP) – Small ruminant value chain development(Closing date: 18 March 2016) ILRI-DAAD PhD Scholarship: Capacity Development (closing date: 18 March 2016) ILRI-DAAD PhD Scholarship: Food Safety and Zoonosis Project – FoodAfrica Phase 2 Project (closing date: 18 March 2016) ILRI-DAAD PhD Scholarship: Livestock Systems and … Continue reading