Seminars are a key instrument to unravel the power of ‘conversations’ in any research institution. In the case of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), seminars are meant to generate agendas within research groups, partners, would-be partners, donors and the public at large. They help take ILRI to the next level as a convener, thought leader and … Continue reading
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Africa / Asia / Europe / Event / ICT / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Latin America / Social media / WLE
Online peer-assists: learning about concrete solutions for water and land management research
Since January 2012, the Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) is holding more and more structured learning events. Communication specialists from five out of the six basins of the program (Andes, Ganges, Mekong, Nile and Volta) have been gathering every month at a fixed date to engage in ‘peer assists’. These social learning events have … Continue reading
Finding and managing information in a research environment – an ILRI Komms Klinic
Information is vital to communication and research, and it is a critical resource for effective performance to any organization. Many organizations use different sources of information for planning, trend analysis and managing performance. Finding relevant and good quality information is essential to inform all these processes, yet information can also be overwhelming. Staff at the … Continue reading
Connect, engage, share and learn: A social media guide on climate change in Africa
Social media have turned the information and communication world upside down. Africa is not the most prominent continent when it comes to social media use, but penetration is increasing rapidly. Fashion, sport and pop culture in Africa are all making use of social media, but so is development. Particularly for complex issues that require inputs from … Continue reading
Facilitating multi-stakeholder processes: Training around uncertainty and complexity
From 13 to 15 August 2012, the Knowledge Management and Information Services (KMIS) of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) supported a training workshop for the ‘European Union and African Union cooperative research to increase food production in irrigated farming systems in Africa’ (EAU4Food) project which takes place in five countries (Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, South … Continue reading
Harmonizing knowledge management and research at ILRI
ILRI scientist Alan Duncan was recently interviewed by the USAID Feed the Future/Agrilinks web site on ways he communicates research. He talks about how, since joining ILRI, he is working with ILRI’s Knowledge Management and Information Services to communicate beyond articles – writing blogs, putting more provisional research outputs (and processes) into the public domain, … Continue reading
Grabbing public attention for your work – an ILRI Komms Klinic on public awareness
We all work with information and knowledge and we communicate continuously. We generate lots of knowledge and valuable ideas; we meet partners and colleagues in events; and most of the time we need to organize, find and track our and others’ knowledge and information. Communicating and sharing information and knowledge have been a great challenge … Continue reading
Africa / Agriculture / Asia / Countries / DRYLANDSCRP / Event / ILRI / ILRIComms / India / Knowledge and Information / Livestock / Mozambique / South Asia / Southern Africa
imGoats project draws on communication support to maximise impacts
The imGoats project aims to increase incomes and food security in a sustainable manner by enhancing pro-poor small ruminant value chains in India and Mozambique. It is running until December 2012 and five months before its end, project members recently examined what the project can contribute in terms of useful lessons and outputs of different sorts … Continue reading
East Africa / Ethiopia / Event / ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / people / Social media
ILRI helps set up local ‘Knowledge Management for Development’ group in Ethiopia
Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) is an established community of practice (CoP) that seeks to forge linkages and encourage peer learning and exploration around the field of knowledge management for development. The network has grown a lot over the past five years and now has just under 1500 mailing list subscribers and over 2700 Ning … Continue reading
Africa / Agriculture / East Africa / Event / ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / WLE
Communication coalition helping rainfed systems research program to ‘keep the flame’
The CGIAR world is currently in a whirlwind of workshops coinciding with the launch of various large research programs or of specific sub-sets of activities under these programs. From 12-14 June, 2012, the Tribe Hotel in Nairobi hosted one such workshop dedicated to the specific activities of the ‘Rainfed systems‘ strategic research program (SRP) and ecosystems … Continue reading
Maarifa - Communications and Knowledge Management 