The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the Food Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) and the Challenge Programme for Water and Food (CPWF) organized with much success the third International Forum for Water and Food, from 14 to 17 November 2011 in Thswane, South Africa. The Addis Ababa Knowledge Management and Information Services … Continue reading
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ILRI’s KMIS reports on AgProAfrica Conference
From 1 -3 November 2011, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the African Union Commission (AUC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the Forum for Agricultural Research in African (FARA) held a conference on “Increasing Agricultural Productivity and Enhancing Food Security in Africa.” Our Knowledge Management and Information Services (KMIS) team … Continue reading
Ewen Le Borgne joins ILRI as Knowledge Sharing and Communication Specialist
Today, Ewen Le Borgne officially joined the KMIS team, based in Addis Ababa. Ewen will lead a range of activities around knowledge sharing/management, learning, event facilitation, communication and monitoring & evaluation. He believes that development is “all about empowerment and that learning is essential to empowerment because it gives the means to continually improve one’s … Continue reading
Continuous communications learning opportunities for ILRI campus staff
In ILRI we have loads of research outputs and also lots of knowledge and valuable ideas are produced through our big events and workshops. Together with ILRI Public Awareness, ILRI’s Knowledge Management and Information Services (KMIS) aims to support knowledge sharing and communication activities in ILRI. KMIS helps to capture the knowledge, documenting and sharing … Continue reading
Africa / Agriculture / CCAFS / ILRI
CGIAR exhibits at Climate Change and Development for Africa conference
On 17 October 2011 the first conference on Climate Change and Development for Africa (CCDA-1) kicked off at the UN Conference Center with the theme “Development First: Addressing Climate Change in Africa. It was organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA’s) African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), a joint initiative of the African … Continue reading
Agknowledge Africa share fair – the survey results
In October 2010, ILRI Addis Ababa was the venue for a ‘share fair’ on Africa’s agricultural and rural knowledge. See the wiki about the event here In September 2011, the second Rome share fair will be hosted by IFAD (more info); so we decided to ask people who attended the Addis share fair what they … Continue reading
Publishing and sharing ‘open’ journal articles in ILRI
In line with ILRI’s strategy on publishing, we aim to make as many of our ILRI research products as possible open for our partners and others to access. Our dspace repository (Mahider) contains a full index (we hope) to recent outputs as well as the full ‘text’s of reports, documents and the like … See … Continue reading
Web 2.0 learning opportunity in Ethiopia ’empowering’ for participants
A five-day web 2.0 training was conducted from May 23-27, 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The training was organized by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA). Participants came from Government offices, Universities, the United Nations, Non-Governmental and International Organizations with various areas of specialization. The … Continue reading
Knowledge is like rainwater … supporting the NBDC with knowledge and communication
This week, communication people from across the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) meet in South Africa to compare and agree ways to improve communication and collaboration practices within the CPWF and among its partners. ILRI’s Peter Ballantyne is attending for the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) – one of the CPWF-supported Basin … Continue reading
ILRI shares social media skills and tools with partners
From 12-14 April 2011, ILRI’s KMIS team ran an introductory social media course for five people from the East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD) and the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF). The training covered the following modules: Collaboration and document sharing Blogging Managing and sharing photos on the web: Sharing PowerPoint presentation on the web: … Continue reading
Maarifa - Communications and Knowledge Management 