Capacity Strengthening Strategy of ILRI
1. ILRI’s Goal
5. Types of training offered
‘By positioning itself at the crossroads of livestock and poverty and
by bringing to bear high quality science and capacity building, ILRI
and its partners will reduce poverty and make sustainable Individual training Group training
development possible for poor livestock keepers, their families and • Attachment Associates • Core courses – cutting across
the communities in which they live’. program boundaries
• Student Associates
2. Mission of ILRI’s Capacity Strengthening • Technical Associates • Program/Project-specific courses
• Graduate Fellows • Network courses – based on the
Unit • Research Fellows training needs of networks
The overall mission of the Capacity Strengthening unit is to
strengthen the capacity of the livestock R&D community to
contribute to the mission of ILRI and to achieve livestock-mediated
6. Types of outputs ILRI’S Capacity Strengthening
Activities
poverty alleviation.
• Trained individuals (researchers and trainers)
The purpose is to strengthen ILRI’s and its partners’ capacity to • Training materials
apply skills and resources to: • Revised curricula
• Accomplish their goals, • CS effectively integrated into projects
• Satisfy stakeholders needs, and • Organizational capacity to build capacity
• Improve performance and impact. • Innovative training approaches and delivery
mechanisms
• A need based M & E system to measure the
3. Guiding principles in implementing impacts.
• Best practices and guidelines
CaSt’s strategy
• Mission driven and need based 7. Types of outcomes
• Generates global and regional public goods
• Demand driven, participatory and research based • Enhanced individual and organizational
• Based on comparative and competitive advantage performance
• Decentralization and ILRI as a facilitating and catalytic agent • Creation of community of practice/networks
• Principle of subsidiarity and value addition • Enhanced collaboration
• Innovation and emphasis on partnerships, networking and • More relevant research agenda
collaboration • Increased adoption of knowledge/
• Recognition of existing national and regional diversity technologies and impact at the
and intersectoral linkages end user level.
• Accountability, transparency and impact orientation
• Scientific integrity, professional excellence and quality
assurance Enrollment of Attachment and Student Associates from 2000 −2008
• Holistic: focuses on individuals, groups, organizations and 80 M F
systems 70 69
65
63 63
• Focuses on sustainability, continuity and gender balance 60
60
• Multi-faceted approach based on best practices in education 50
44
50 50
and training; use of modern ICT 40
33
38 36
30
• Based on experiential learning and effective feedback. 30 26
16
19 22
20 15 18
4. Strategic objectives
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0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
1. Integrating of CS activities into project planning,
implementation and evaluation
2. Building sustainable capacity of institutes to build capacity Enrollment of Graduate Fellows from 2000−2008
. Creating subregional “mechanisms” 120
Graduate Fellows M
. Facilitating the integration of research based learning Graduate Fellows F
Completed
103
100
outputs into the curricula
82
. Training of trainers 80
. Participating in ongoing/planned external CS initiatives 63
55 57
3. Training materials and methods 60
. Testing, adapting, and implementing innovative training 40
39
approaches and delivery mechanisms using ICT 22
25
28
24
21
30
. Developing and disseminating training materials 20 12 12
18
12
16
4. Building skills of individuals and groups 3 43
0
5. Developing a functional need-based monitoring and 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
evaluation system to communicate with partners
and to assess the performance and impact of CaSt. ILRI
International Livestock Research Institute