Please note that tomorrow Tuesday, 26 January 2016 is designated as an official Public holiday in Uganda. The ILRI Uganda office will therefore remain closed. We will reopen on Wednesday 27th January 2016 as usual. Ben Lukuyu Continue reading
The One Corporate System (OCS) project is an initiative of nine CGIAR Centres and the Consortium Office to implement a common business information system for managing: human resources and payroll, finance and logistics (travel authorization and expenditure reporting, procurement and inventory, fixed assets management), research and project management, planner (budgeting) and project costing and billing. … Continue reading
Celestine Munyaneza has joined the Livelihoods, Gender and Impact (LGI) Program as a DAAD Graduate Fellow at Sokoine University of Agriculture. Celestin’s research work toward PhD degree will be with MoreMikliT Project – ‘Adapting dairy market hubs for pro-poor Smallholder value chains in Tanzania’. ILRI will support Celestine through its offices in Nairobi and Dar … Continue reading
Please join in welcoming Salim Werner Nandonde who joined ILRI-Tanzania in June 2014 as Field Coordinator. Salim is based at the More Milk in Tanzania (MoreMilkiT) project office at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania, from where he is contributing to the MoreMilkiT and other ILRI collaborative projects contributing to the smallholder dairy value … Continue reading
On Thursday 9th October Uganda celebrates its National Day (52nd Independence Anniversary); therefore the ILRI-Uganda Office will be closed, and will resume activities on Friday 10th October. Danilo Pezo | Country Representative & Project Leader – Smallholder Pig Value Chains Development in Uganda Project Office Phones: +256 39-2-081154/5 Email: d.pezo@cgiar.org Continue reading
Welcome to the view from my office! My office in Mara House has a great view of the Ngong Hills, but this monthly blog is not going to focus on that view. Rather, I want to use it to keep you up to date with what I have been doing, what I’m thinking and my … Continue reading
I am writing this in the North East Scotland, where I have been spending Christmas. Not a traditional White Christmas, but a rather wet one. However in Scotland we escaped the worst of the rain which led to flooding in some parts of England, with many trains and flights disrupted. The storm was actually the … Continue reading
October and November have been busy months. When I reviewed my diary in preparation for writing this blog I saw that I had packed a lot into a short time. So read on to see what I have been up to ……. I spent a fascinating three days in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA on 21-23 October … Continue reading
On 16 August the State Minister for Livestock Resources Development, HE Dr Gebregziabher Gebreyohannes visited ILRI with Dr Bewket Siraw ( Head, Animal Health Directorate) and Ato Tadesse Sori (Head, Animal Production and Feed Directorate). He met several members of the Institute Management Committee, including Jimmy Smith and senor members of ILRI in Addis. We … Continue reading
I recently made my first visit to Pakistan in over 9 years. I worked on a project in Pakistan over 10 years ago, before I joined ILRI. We now have a new project, funded by USAID ($30M over 4 years), led by CIMMYT working with IRRI, AVRDC, University of California, Davis and ICARDA which involves … Continue reading
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