Unlocking livestock development potential through science, influence and capacity
development ILRI APM, Addis Ababa, 15-17 May 2013
Developing capacity Influencing decisions
ILRI’s research management system (RMS)
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3 strategic lessons on:
1. High management quality and standards
2. Increased empowerment
3. Better coordination across units e.g
research, HR, grants
1. Reliability of information
2. Facilitated re-usability of
information
3. Speeded up decision making
Wanjala N. Fridah, Poole Jane, Quiros Carlos , Agnes Odanga
Delivering science
Introduction:
The RMS is an online system for managing ILRI’s information at Project,
CRP, HR, Budgets and grants and work plan levels.
Current state:
 Information across the CGIAR Consortium is decentralized
 9 CG centers and the Consortium office came together and OCS (One
Corporate System) was initiated.
OCS is designed to develop a common, automated, and Integrated
operational support system for functions across the CGIAR Consortium
Research Management System (RMS) was designed to ensure a smooth
transition to OCS.
1. Online access to real-time information
2. Enhanced project planning and
implementation
3. Facilitate decentralization across projects
Partners
 Project Management Officers
 Project investigators
 CRP leaders
 Human resources
 Contracts and Grants office
Goals
The RMS acts as a ‘temp’ solution to the OCS. The RMS aims at:
 Harmonizing processes, data and information across programs
in ILRI
 Simplifying information sharing, comparability, aggregation and
consolidation
 Improving and streamlining program and administrative
management processes
Focus
 Collection of data at HR , Finance, Projects , Work plans and CRP
levels
 Generating reports from this data.
 Creating linkages between projects, CRP’s, staff and finances for
better coordination of activities across ILRI programs.
RMS quality reporting capabilities
Results
The RMS web interface (Projects )