Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) often feels as a burden that to be complied with. It is often equated with bean-counting and providing meaningless reports. Yet M&E also offers the promise of great learning – if done well. It can be a real instrument for smart adaptive management to deal with complex organizational agendas. How do … Continue reading
Category Archives: ILRIComms
Climate change communication and social learning for smarter agricultural research
Social learning helps smart organizations become smarter, and their activities to end up in smarter results. This is what a group of people working on climate change communication and social learning (CCSL) posited in June 2013 at a plan-and-writeshop. Hypothesis A: Social learning improves institutional processes and performance/effectiveness in the context of climate change. Hypothesis B: Social … Continue reading
Africa / Asia / CCAFS / East Africa / Event / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Latin America / LIVESTOCKFISH / South America / South Asia / Southeast Asia / Southern Africa / West Africa / WLE
Getting knowledge management and communication into CGIAR programs
In many CGIAR programs and activities, communication and knowledge management are invited too little and too late. This means that the results of their science may fall into oblivion. Much can be achieved by bringing communication and knowledge management right into the heart of CGIAR programs – to support engagement with partners, research uptake and … Continue reading
Climate change communication and social learning – documenting the evidence
Since late 2011, ILRI has been working closely with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and a host of other organizations and individuals on ‘climate change, communication and social learning’ (CCSL). What started off with a meeting of minds in May 2012 has turned into a series of events, … Continue reading
ICTs, livestock research and social learning – ILRI contributes to ict4ag conference
ILRI people were active at the recent ict4ag conference in Kigali. Ewen Le Borgne was part of the overall facilitation team; on the plug and play day, Absolomon Kihara talked about the open data kit and on days two and three, ILRI organized session on livestock and ICTs and on social ICTs … Organized by Peter … Continue reading
Africa / East Africa / Event / ICT / ILRIComms / Kenya / Knowledge and Information / Social media
ICT and social media help engage youth in agriculture
Among many platforms and apps developed, my attention caught by a platform called Mkulima (a young farmer helping a young farmer) which is a social media platform to engage young farmers. Continue reading
ODK used by ILRI for livestock data collection
Data collecting is a vital part of research for development work, as the results inform good decision making. Paper based system have been used to collect data in the field and for monitoring and evaluation of projects in rural areas. However, this approach is time consuming, labour intensive, error prone that may affect productivity and … Continue reading
Africa / Agriculture / East Africa / Event / ICT / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information
Facilitating large events – Lessons from the ict4ag Rwanda conference
This year’s most important event in the world of agricultural information and knowledge took place from 4 to 8 November in Kigali, Rwanda. ict4ag brought together over 400 participants eager to share ideas, questions, and applications supporting the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for agricultural development. The event was led by the Technical Centre … Continue reading
ILRI hosts DSpace Ethiopia user meeting and CGSpace training
From 28 October to 1 November 2013, International Livestock Research Institute knowledge management team in Addis Ababa held an informal first Ethiopia DSpace Interest Group Meeting and a DSpace Technical Training for staff and other DSpace users. On the first day, about 25 people came to ILRI from various organizations in Ethiopia and abroad to meet, … Continue reading
ILRI knowledge sharing tools update and refresher sessions held in Nairobi
From 17 to 20 September 2013, the Knowledge Management and Information Services (KMIS) team at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) ran several knowledge sharing tools update and refresher sessions for staff in Nairobi. The main objectives of the sessions were to: Inform new staff on ILRI knowledge management and communications tools and approaches and … Continue reading
Maarifa - Communications and Knowledge Management 