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= = Partnership and Communication annual meeting 2012 On 24-26 January, ILRI's P&C department held a meeting in Addis Ababa to review the highlights of 2011 and align plans and ideas around strategic priorities for 2012 and beyond. (go back to ParCom12 home page)

Key messages that came out of the discussions:


 * CRP's**

What: For CRP's 3.7 and 4.3 All staff of ILRI needs to be updated Internal Challenge How does everybody know what is going on the CRP's Awareness Each CRP needs to produce different products We need consistenacy and mesaure and track We need to alsign and prioritize

How? Team prirorites Champions beyond us in projects in sites and projects Need to be coordinated Lots of tools needs to be used beyond the nets

Who Bigger than ILRI Bigger than Comms 3.7 and 4.2 starts with us comms

Cracks Can we all do it ourselves Our communication is organized around teams we need to shift for the CRP's Resistance to cultural change (Managers, researchers.....partners)

Question from Susan: What is the strategy for moving foreword in communication?

Purvi: Huge communication challenge:
 * Within CG
 * Within ILRI

Peter
 * Standardization can help us to bring all subjects together but it is not that much promoted

Why: To raise funding
 * Resource Mobilization:**

Destination 100 million by 2014. Team and equipment Gather information from teams Funding for the 10 big ideas that management came up with Compelling concept notes

Road maps Know the gaps Better understanding between teams and Resource mobilization unit Gaps to be identified by directors and PMO's Use social media tools to gather information All this should happen in the coming four months Base ourselves on what our staff already know about our partners What are the key events happening internationally to meet our donors

Cracks We're not pulling in the same direction Information and communication gaps internally


 * Branding:**


 * Once face for ILRI for headquarters and for the regions
 * Clean and Clear
 * First idea for the Blog and website (no hierarchy)
 * From signage to stationary -
 * Exhibits to communicate across the board
 * Power point templates
 * Packs for visitors and donors
 * Road maps for the institute

Who does it Focus group that comprises of Muthoni, Apollo, Meron, Zerihun, Susan and Alan

How With a support branding page

Capacity Internal capacity

Time line: Focus group to determine

Cracks Resources

Internal Communication:

Destination:

Integrate all staff Repackage our information More cohesive enfironment

Use the exisiting tools Our approach should change Face to face and informal communication

Equipment

Need
 * Comms people should be active
 * Quarterly meeting of the comms
 * Responsibilities of comms people is not structured
 * Idea that would make change
 * Virtual communication
 * Having champion

Purvi: Forming a task force which involves other groups and teams

Evelyn Suggested Nairobi comms people meeting

Bruce:
 * TV monitors dispersed around the institution for everybody to know what event or what is happening in major
 * We still don't have message in our telephone system