What+do+you+want+to+change+in+our+research?

=Strategy engagement with staff - notes from group discussions at the end of May 2012=

Wordle tagcloud:




 * Take more risks


 * Our staff**
 * Increase/double the number of staff
 * Improve team work
 * Implement internships/research assistance in themes to free scientists to focus on research
 * More field work by bioscientists
 * Attract high caliber professional staff
 * Attract, recruit and work with key research experts ; Get qualified expertise in ILRI
 * Re-brand our research position titles e.g. research technicians


 * Organization structure**
 * Better integrate CRPs to ILRI main research themes
 * Increase inter-departmental cohesion
 * More cohesive inter-departmental relations and less fragmented research efforts
 * Remove sciences boxes; move to holistic research approaches.
 * Diffuse boundaries between thematic/disciplinary groups
 * Create more synergies among ILRI research groups
 * Derive new structure of ILRI from the new strategy


 * Fund raising**
 * Have a very strong resource mobilization unit
 * Overcome research funding constraints
 * Increase efficiency of resource mobilization


 * Partnerships**
 * More focus on NARS
 * Focus more on partnerships arrangements and how roles are shared between ILRI and partners
 * Good partnership with NARS
 * Strong and continual engagement with staff and partners
 * Interaction with partners – ILRI is an “expensive partner”
 * Capacity building (of staff and NARS)
 * Collaborate more with crop centers
 * Strengthen regional offices
 * Vibrant West African program


 * Facilities**
 * More lab facilities
 * More research labs and experimentation areas
 * Full utilization of lab facilities


 * Our science**
 * Reduce emphasis on markets and products rather than bioscience
 * Emphasize connections between livestock and environmental economics
 * Increase our involvement in advocacy and policy
 * Take more advantage of (bio-) technological opportunities and breakthroughs
 * Strengthen use of ‘modern language of science’ especially in areas like economics in order to better communication in ‘popular/buzz’ areas of research


 * Impact focus**
 * More impact-oriented research
 * Increase impact at grassroots
 * Focus on bridging the gap/missing link between development and use (research to impact).
 * Research on soluble problems
 * More impact from the research we conduct
 * Increase gender focus in design of research projects
 * More monitoring and impact assessment
 * Ensure research has impact on the ground
 * Needs-based research
 * Adopt better methodologies to disseminate research to grassroots [research impact pathways need to be well thought out and should make better use of partnerships]
 * Anticipate and prepare for the future
 * Sustainability of projects


 * Communication**
 * Enhance/expand our communication targets
 * Communication more connected to research. Integrate research in the communication strategy Help regional staff connect with the rest of ILRI
 * Become a bigger key player, put ourselves on the agenda, expose ourselves more
 * Timely delivery of research products
 * Better management of the information we generate (data management)
 * More efficient and targeted PR
 * Better dissemination of livestock research results and outputs
 * Improve information sharing internally
 * Improve internal communication and collaboration
 * Reduce confusion about CRPs
 * Increase budgets for research communications
 * More learning
 * Create more opportunities to work together and know one another’s strengths
 * Hear more from top management/leadership; on changes, trends, developments.
 * More communication among campus staff and regional offices