ILRI APM 2010 ILRI APM 2010

Partnerships & Partnerships & Communication Communication

The Good The Good The Bad

P & C Stars in the ILRI sky

Resource Mobilization – helping you raise

funds

Public Awareness - co-developing messages with

you for the world IT – connecting

you to one another and to your partners

CaST– reinforcing your

partners

Collective Action – working with

your partners in Africa

Intellectual Property & Legal Unit– Providing you with IP management, contracts, licenses & legal advice

KMIS- capturing and organizing your

knowledge so it can travelKM in

projects- capturing

and organizing

your knowledge within your

projects

Media

Good: Broad and high-quality media coverage (in the Economist, etc)

Bad: Projects not budgeting appropriately for communication that has impact

Lesson: Project leaders should consult communications before preparing annual budgets

Social Channels

Good: Multiple ‘social’ communications channels

Bad: Lack of awareness, skills and time

Lesson: Just do it!

Website

Good: Dynamic ILRI website

Bad: Much content out of date

Lesson: Themes and teams must take ownership

Repository

Good: Mahider repository of research outputs

Bad: Incomplete database undervalues our outputs

Lesson : Incentives to include outputs

Good: Following TQM generated TQM gave 1.14m USD for ILRI

Bad: Not following TQM led to negative responses from donors

Lesson: Successful proposals are those that follow TQM

TQM for Proposal Development

Good: Our capacity to handle issues of IP and genetic resources enhances ability to collaborate with partners (NGOs, NARs, Private entities etc.)

Bad: What if our IP gets ‘stolen’ by private entities denying access to the poor?

Lesson: Publications and defensive patenting are potent tools for ensuring our research outputs are not ‘stolen’.

Contracts & IP

Capacity Strengthening

Good: Graduate fellowship program; reinforcing capacities of various stakeholders

Bad: Funding/support to mentors; Limited involvement of CaST in project planning

Lesson: Capturing expertise from within ILRI

Regional Collective Action

Good: CGMap Ongoing research in Africa, provides easy access to agricultural research projects.

Bad: Some centres acting act as custodians/gatekeepers of the information instead of sharing it in one portal

Lesson: More buy-in to be encouraged from centres for greater impact

Exhibits

Good: Collective project amongst CG centres targeted to one donor with successful results / resulted in extra core funds

Bad: Difficulty of getting CG centres to work collectively

Lesson: Teamwork (CG centres)---in less specialization and more holistic approach

ICT Communication Tools

Good: Ability to communicate with chat, voice and video, anywhere at any time, even offline.

Bad: Loss of productivity, is it always about work

Lesson: select the best tool for the task

Knowledge Management with ILRI projects

Good: Lots of dissemination KM activities in ILRI project

Bad: Difficult to assess what’s actually is achieved at user level

Lesson: Turn KM/KS activities in projects to action and for identifying solutions for users

Thank you!!