When event support moves into strategic process support

Posted on 28 Dec 2016 by Ewen Le Borgne • Leave a comment

ILRI’s CKM team recently supported the process leading to and facilitating a ‘National coordination and experience sharing forum (NCESF) in the area of food security and resilience building programs in Ethiopia’. This experience went well beyond typical event support and offered interesting opportunities for ILRI more widely. This post also looks at lessons learned in the process. Continue reading →

Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / East Africa / Kenya / Knowledge and Information / POD / Training

Why publish? ILRI graduate fellows and early career researchers trained in scientific writing and publishing

Posted on 5 Dec 2014 by Paul Karaimu • 2 Comments

ILRI’s Capacity Development (CapDev) Unit working in collaboration with People & Organizational Development (P&OD) Unit and the Training Centre for Communication (TCC), recently delivered a highly interactive and practical workshop designed to give ILRI graduate fellows, post-doctoral fellows and early career researchers, an opportunity to understand the process of scientific writing and publishing 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

Posted on 16 Dec 2013 by Ewen Le Borgne • Leave a comment

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 →

Africa / East Africa / Event / ICT / ILRIComms / Kenya / Knowledge and Information / Social media

ICT and social media help engage youth in agriculture

Posted on 25 Nov 2013 by Tsehay Gashaw • Leave a comment

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 →

Africa / Agriculture / East Africa / Event / ICT / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information

Facilitating large events – Lessons from the ict4ag Rwanda conference

Posted on 19 Nov 2013 by Ewen Le Borgne • Leave a comment

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 →

Agriculture / East Africa / Event / LIVESTOCKFISH / PIL / PIM / Uganda

Storytelling experiences from the AgrifoodChain workshop

Posted on 15 Sep 2013 by Ewen Le Borgne • Leave a comment

ILRI events are often designed to explore alternative methods of engagement that maximize sharing and learning. The recent AgriFood Chain Toolkit Conference – Livestock and Fish Value Chains in East Africa was one of these events. The conference was sponsored by two CGIAR Research Programs (or CRPs) – ‘Livestock and fish’, and ‘Policies, Institutions and Markets’. Its purpose was … Continue reading →

East Africa / Ethiopia / Event / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information

Nile BDC planning and consultation meetings: Where communication becomes central

Posted on 15 Mar 2013 by Ewen Le Borgne • Leave a comment

Between November 2012 and February 2013, the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) ran two major events to help steer its efforts in this last year of the Challenge. On 15 and 16 November, a largely internal planning workshop gathered 25 participants representing the four NBDC projects. On 20-21 February 2013, about 70 people – project staff, partners and other related parties … Continue reading →

East Africa / Ethiopia / Event / ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information

Reporting and communication help power FAO agriknowledge ShareFair in Addis Ababa

Posted on 12 Nov 2012 by Tsehay Gashaw • Leave a comment

In October 2012 the Knowledge Management and Information Services (KMIS) team at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Addis Ababa worked day and night to help make a success of an AgriKnowledge ShareFair ‘Towards Food and Nutrition Security in the Horn of Africa.’ The Horn of Africa has suffered several droughts in the last … Continue reading →

Crop-livestock / East Africa / Event / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRIComms / Intensification / Southern Africa / West Africa

Communication and facilitation at the heart of Africa RISING meetings

Posted on 8 Nov 2012 by Ewen Le Borgne • Leave a comment

From September to late October 2012, the Africa RISING program held a series of review and planning workshops. These followed a series of other inception, design and project workshops held since January 2012. The Knowledge Management and Information Services (KMIS) team of ILRI contributed to this series of workshops: through design, organization, facilitation, social reporting … 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

Posted on 3 Jul 2012 by Ewen Le Borgne • Leave a comment

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 →