I will be on leave till end of December 2014. Biruk Debebe has kindly agreed to act on my behave during this time for ICT unit Ethiopia activities and please accord him your usual cooperation. Ketema Samuel | ICT Site Manager, Ethiopia Email: k.samuel@cgiar.org Continue reading
Category Archives: Staff
Welcoming Rahel Eshetu to ILRI family
My name is Rahel Eshetu, I recently joined the engineering and facility unit in Ethiopia (Addis Campus) as a Help Desk Administrator. I am really excited to join this beautiful campus, I am sure I’ve met with many of you in person and now that I’ve adopted the environment and started taking job orders, I … Continue reading
Introducing Edwin Oyieng’ – Research technician, Animal Biosciences program
Edwin Oyieng’ has joined the Animal Biosciences Program as a Research Technician and is tasked with the collection and analysis of quantitative genetics data for reporting by research scientists. Edwin holds a MSc. Animal Breeding and Genetics and a BSc. Animal Production from Egerton University, Kenya. Prior to joining ILRI, he worked as a Program … Continue reading
Introducing Celestine Munyaneza and Irene Bayiyana
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
Introducing Nelly Mukami Njiru
Kindly join in welcoming Nelly Mukami, our new Policy, Trade & Value Chain (PTVC) staff to ILRI. Nelly Mukami Njiru joined the PTVC program on 10th November 2014, as Research Assistant. She will be working with Epi & Fadiga on Literature Reviews of Livestock Market participation papers and VC Performance. Nelly holds a MSc Degree … Continue reading
Talking science blogs – ILRI entries
The CGIAR Consortium Office challenged scientists to present their research in an exciting way as part of the CGIAR Development Dialogues which was held in New York in September and to post the stories on-line. 42 entries were received for the “Talking Science” competition. The entries were judged by both a jury and by public … Continue reading
Message from Nelson Mwalwala: Kwaherini! Goodbye!
I wish to inform you (albeit lately) that I left ILRI on September 30, 2014 as my position at ILRI was declared redundant. Many thanks for the support you gave me which enabled me to deliver information services efficiently and effectively to the Research community and all stakeholders and above all the memorable inter-actions we shared for the many years at … Continue reading
Introducing Moureen Chepkorir: communications intern
Kindly join in welcoming Moureen Chepkorir, our new Policy, Trade & Value Chain (PTVC) staff to ILRI. Moureen Chepkorir joined the PTVC program on 13th October 2014, as a Communications Intern. Moureen holds a Degree in Communications majoring in Public Relations and Marketing from Daystar University, Kenya. She has recently been interning at Mater Hospital, … Continue reading
Salim Werner Nandonde: field coordinator, Tanzania
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
Evalyne Nyawira: EOHS officer – research
Pleased to introduce you to Evalyne Nyawira who has accepted the position of Environment Occupational Health and Safety (EOHS) Officer- Research beginning 1 October 2014. Evalyne has more than five years laboratory and field experience having worked in other ILRI projects in Nairobi and Busia. Before joining EOHS, she worked with the food safety and … Continue reading