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“The State of ILRI”
APM, Addis Ababa, April 2010
Carlos Seré, Director General ILRIApril 2010
Key messages
1. CGIAR reform process moving rapidly; ILRI has opportunity drive international livestock research agenda in the new CGIAR; ILRI scientists need to help shape megaprograms
2. ILRI needs to focus on limited number of development related initiatives, where we have core competencies to deliver outcomes & impact;
3. CGIAR consortium funding uncertain. Resource mobilization will be major challenge in new CGIAR.
The evolving context
• Food price crisis
• Agriculture back on the agenda
• New funding streams
• GCARD: fractured R&D system
• Consortium getting going
Why livestock in a CGIAR agenda
Potential to address poverty
Threat of global bads (methane, emerging diseases, resource degradation)
Need to understand the poor and their livestock livelihoods to tackle global bads
Research for development paradigm: knowledge to action
strong systems basis biotechnology and ICTs as key levers
innovation systems mindset
I increasing involvement with private sector
knowledge management and strategic communications
embedding research in development interventionsMPs?
ILRI in the MPs
1. Agricultural systems for the poor and vulnerable
2. Enabling agricultural incomes for the poor
3. Optimizing productivity of global food security
commodities
4. Agriculture, nutrition and health
5. Water, soils and ecosystems
6. Forests and trees
7. Climate change and agriculture
Sustainable intensification
Sustainable intensification in smallholder crop/livestock systems; improving system efficiency through better feed quality, health and animal performance, in context of increasing competition for land and other resources (eg biofuels)
Livestock futures
Food feed crops
Appropriate genotypes
Hubs, innovation platforms
Hub concept
Vulnerability
Vulnerability – Identifying livestock interventions to reduce the vulnerability of livestock dependent households; understanding relations between livestock systems and other ecosystem services.
Vaccines, index based insurance, ecosystem services
Poverty traps, safety nets, cargo nets
Climate change
Climate change – livestock based adaptation to impacts of climate change; growing trade offs between livestock production and other ecosystem services; managing livestock negative impacts on climate change.
Targeting of interventions
Intensification of ruminant systems
Carbon sequestration in rangelands
Food safety and market access
SPS and markets – Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) issues, growing market requirements for food safety and quality constraining market access by smallholders
Risk versus rule based approaches
Appropriate development of smallholder dairy markets
Emerging zoonotic diseases
Emerging diseases – combating bird flu and other emerging diseases in developing countries;
Ecohealth approaches
understanding and mapping risks
participatory epidemiology
Vaccines
Vaccine development for livestock diseases; focus on addressing common problem of improving the immune response to protozoan parasites
Improving existing vaccines (ECF, CBPP)
Getting vaccines used in the field
Next generation of pro-poor vaccines
Conservation and Sustainable Use of Animal Genetic
Resources Priority setting for conservation
Appropriate methodologies of conservation
Reproductive technologies for fast deployment of improved genotypes
Delivery of appropriate AGR to smallholder systems
Challenge
How we integrate all of this in a new CONSORTIUM and MPs?
Gender?
Capacity building?
Partnerships?
Performance indicators – ILRI publications 2006-2009
Indicator 2006 2007 2008 2009**
Pubs/ scientist in Thomson’s list of journals
0.91 0.93 0.99 1.63
Pubs/ scientist in peer reviewed journals (excludes Thomson’s list of journals
1.47 1.15 0.91 1.32
% of publications done with developing country partners
51.8% 38.66% 58.71%47.16%
** Not audited
Resource mobilization (1) Strategy and results
New CGIAR funding likely have little/no core funds for centres
Recent ILRI strategy is to concentrate on fewer, larger grants and new or non-traditional sources
Some successes in both aspects of strategy
Resource mobilization (2)Some examples
New competitive science funding through
NSF/Gates program for basic research for development (BREAD) - 2 proposals successful
Similar call in UK for DFID/BBSRC – 3 proposals
Australian food security initiative in East Africa to provide substantial support for BecA ILRI Hub for research and capacity building (USD 10m/4 yrs)
Resource mobilization (3)
Strategy to diversify funding sources and seek
larger grants having some success
ILRI now has wider range of investors, with more science funders, foundations, private sector
Several proposals under discussion with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The new challenge: Co-development of RM strategies with development partners
Financial outlook 2009 results and 2010 budget
Results Budget 2009 2010 (April)
Income* 57.73 44.634
Expenses* 56.49 43.775
Surplus 1.242 0.859
*2009 includes Beca /ILRI Hub 17.21
Knowledge management and information services
Several new approaches being implemented to improve knowledge sharing across the institute and globally -
ILRI external Web site – re-launched and over 500,000 views in first 3 months of 2010
Social media: ILRI now on twitter, several blogs, etc
Publishing guidelines being revised to encourage open access and wide dissemination
Google books project: All ILRI (and ILCA and ILRAD) books, reports and publications now freely available on line. Over 200,000 pages read in 2010.
ILRI Web Services Stats 2009-2010
-100,000200,000300,000400,000500,000600,000700,000800,000900,000
1,000,0001,100,0001,200,000
Film and slide views 3,074 3,074 3,074 3,074 3,919
Repository views - - - - 65,050
Newsfeed clicks - - 597 9,502 25,647
Blog views 66 197 725 21,087 48,582
Google book pageviews - - 3,813 111,488 246,725
ILRInet pageviews 203,438 207,303 201,277 191,612 184,550
Website pageviews 492,152 475,342 426,914 419,414 529,254
2009Q1 2009Q2 2009Q3 2009Q4 2010Q1
Key messages
1. CGIAR reform process moving rapidly; ILRI has opportunity drive international livestock research agenda in the new CGIAR; ILRI scientists need to help shape megaprograms
2. ILRI needs to focus on limited number of development related initiatives, where we have core competencies to deliver outcomes & impact;
3. CGIAR consortium funding uncertain. Resource mobilization will be major challenge in new CGIAR.
ILRI Spearheading a New Way Forward
ILRI’s value proposition “ILRI is creating and integrating knowledge to enable diverse partners to find innovative solutions to make livestock a sustainable pathway out of poverty”