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ILRI is co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia, has 14 offices across Asia and Africa, employs some 700 staff and has an annual operating budget of about USD 80 million.</p><p>ILRI is a <a href="https://www.cgiar.org/">CGIAR </a>research centre, a global research partnership for a food-secure future. CGIAR science is dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources and ecosystem services. Its research is carried out by 15 CGIAR centres in close collaboration with hundreds of partners, including national and regional research institutes, civil society organizations, academia, development organizations and the private sector.</p><p>Peter Doherty, a former member of the ILRI Board of Trustees and co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, serves as ILRI’s patron.</p></div></div> <aside class="col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-12"><div class="card bg-light border-0"><div class="card-body"><div id="item-11380" class="links paragraph"><h3>Key documents</h3><ul class="list-group list-group-flush"><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130726" target="_blank">2022 financial statements</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119979" target="_blank">2021 financial statements</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="/research/annual-report/2020/" target="_blank">Corporate report 2020</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10568/113772" target="_blank">2020 financial statements</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="/research/annual-report/2019" target="_blank">Annual report 2019</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108137" target="_blank">2019 financial statements</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101233" target="_blank">Annual report 2018</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101476" target="_blank">2018 financial statements</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101405" target="_blank">Information regarding the Limited Exclusive License Agreement for 2018</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/61/browse?type=dateissued&sort_by=2&order=DESC" target="_blank">Corporate documents (annual reports, medium term plans and financial statements)</a></li></ul></div></div></div> </aside></section><section id="item-12056" class="in-side-menu row single-column-sidebar paragraph"><div class="col-lg-8 col-md-8 col-sm-12"><h2 class="title add-sidemenu">Vision, mission and strategy</h2><div class="text-container"><p>As a CGIAR research centre, ILRI contributes to and takes inspiration from the CGIAR vision: A world with sustainable and resilient food, land, and water systems that deliver diverse, healthy, safe, sufficient, and affordable diets, and ensure improved livelihoods and greater social equality, within planetary and regional environmental boundaries.</p><p>ILRIs’ mission is that: </p><blockquote><p>People’s lives in low- and middle-income countries are improved through livestock science that contributes to equitable and resilient livestock systems in order to deliver food systems transformation with climate and environmental benefits.</p></blockquote><p>ILRI's strategy 2024–2030 was approved in May 2024. It emerged from a wide process of consultation and engagement. You can <a href="https://www.ilri.org/corporate-strategy">read more about it here</a>.</p></div></div> <aside class="col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-12"><div class="card bg-light border-0"><div class="card-body"><div id="item-11381" class="links paragraph"><h3>ILRI corporate strategy 2024–2030</h3><ul class="list-group list-group-flush"><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://www.ilri.org/knowledge/publications/unlocking-sustainable-livestocks-potential-through-research-better-lives-and" target="_blank">Full document</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://www.ilri.org/knowledge/publications/unlocking-sustainable-livestocks-potential-through-research-better-lives-0" target="_blank">Two-page summary (English)</a></li></ul></div><div id="item-11382" class="links paragraph"><h3>Previous strategy documents</h3><ul class="list-group list-group-flush"><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10568/27796" target="_blank">ILRI strategy 2013–2022</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10568/4188" target="_blank">Interim ILRI strategy, 2011–12</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10568/4055" target="_blank">Interim ILRI strategy, 2011–12 (summary)</a></li><li class="list-group-item"><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10568/565" target="_blank">Livestock - a pathway out of poverty: ILRI's strategy to 2010</a></li></ul></div></div></div> </aside></section> <section id="item-55414" class="related-publications paragraph"><div class="row"><div class="col-12"><div class="d-flex justify-content-between border-bottom border-2 border-light mb-4"><h2 class="title">Coorporate Strategy 2024-30</h2></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class="row"></div><div class="row"><div class="col-lg-3 col-md-6 col-sm-12"> <article class="node node--type-publication node--view-mode-teaser clearfix card border-0 bg-transparent mb-0"> <a href="/knowledge/publications/unlocking-sustainable-livestocks-potential-through-research-better-lives-and" class="card-link"></a><div class="row g-0"><div class="col-4"> <img class="img-fluid border border-1" src='/sites/default/files/styles/cover/public/publication/2024/Thumbnail-cover-corp-strategy.png?itok=Qk4Y8t9t' alt="Thumbnail-cover-corp-strategy" title="Thumbnail-cover-corp-strategy"/></div><div class="col-8"><div class="card-body pt-0"> <time class="card-issued">2024</time><h3 class="card-title">Unlocking sustainable livestock’s potential through research for better lives and a better planet: ILRI Corporate Strategy 2024–2030</h3><div class="card-publication-authors"><ul class="list-inline d-inline-block comma-list"><li class="list-inline-item">International Livestock Research Institute</li></ul></div></div></div></div></article></div><div class="col-lg-3 col-md-6 col-sm-12"> <article class="node node--type-publication node--view-mode-teaser clearfix card border-0 bg-transparent mb-0"> <a href="/knowledge/publications/unlocking-sustainable-livestocks-potential-through-research-better-lives-0" class="card-link"></a><div class="row g-0"><div class="col-4"> <img class="img-fluid border border-1" src='/sites/default/files/styles/cover/public/publication/2024/content_0.jpeg?itok=AAtZnsDR' alt="Unlocking sustainable livestock’s potential" title="Unlocking sustainable livestock’s potential"/></div><div class="col-8"><div class="card-body pt-0"> <time class="card-issued">2024</time><h3 class="card-title">Unlocking sustainable livestock’s potential through research for better lives and a better planet: ILRI Corporate Strategy 2024–2030</h3><div class="card-publication-authors"><ul class="list-inline d-inline-block comma-list"><li class="list-inline-item">International Livestock Research Institute</li></ul></div></div></div></div></article></div></div></div> </section><section id="item-12058" class="in-side-menu row single-column-sidebar paragraph"><div class="col-lg-8 col-md-8 col-sm-12"><h2 class="title add-sidemenu">ILRI Values – respectful, responsible and responsive</h2><div class="text-container"><p>Through its livestock research for development leading to better lives through livestock, ILRI is committed to helping build a world where everyone has an opportunity to fulfil their potential. In living its ‘3R’ values—respectful, responsible and responsive—ILRI commits to counter prejudice in all forms and to drive towards a more equitable world for all.</p><p>As in the case of CGIAR as a whole, ILRI unequivocally condemns and rejects all prejudices that lead to multiple inequities and discrimination including all forms of racism, tribalism and gender inequity.</p><p>See CGIAR’s commitment to <a href="https://www.cgiar.org/how-we-work/accountability/gender-diversity-and-inclusion/" target="_blank">gender, diversity and inclusion</a>.</p></div></div> <aside class="col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-12"><div class="card bg-light border-0"><div class="card-body"><div id="item-11319" class="info paragraph"><h3><i class="fa-solid fa-circle-info"></i>Whistleblower Hotline</h3><div class="text-container"><p>ILRI is committed to the highest possible standards of ethical, moral and legal business conduct. In support of this commitment ILRI has partnered with Lighthouse Services, Inc. to provide an anonymous ethics and compliance hotline for the purpose of staff reporting fraud, unlawful, unethical, and other types of improper behavior anonymously without fear of retribution. A more complete description of the purpose of this hotline is available in ILRI’s policy on <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10568/113634" target="_blank">reporting ethical breaches</a></p><p><a href="https://report.syntrio.com/ilri/" target="_blank">Lighthouse anonymous reporting</a></p></div></div></div></div> </aside></section><section id="item-12057" class="in-side-menu row single-column-sidebar paragraph"><div class="col-lg-8 col-md-8 col-sm-12"><h2 class="title add-sidemenu">ILRI's history</h2><div class="text-container"><p>ILRI was established on 21 September 1994 as an international not-for-profit livestock research organization by an Establishing Agreement signed by the Governments of Kenya, Ethiopia, Denmark, Sweden and the Swiss Confederation and the United Nations Environment Programme.  Under the agreement, ILRAD (the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases established in 1973 with headquarters in Nairobi) and ILCA (the International Livestock Center for Africa established in 1974 with headquarters in Addis Ababa) were unified to create ILRI.</p><p>ILRI has its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya and is co-hosted by the Government of Ethiopia through a Host Country Agreement with the Government of Kenya signed on 29 December 1994 and the Government of Ethiopia signed on 8 June 1995.</p></div></div> <aside class="col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-12"> </aside></section></article> </main><footer class="footer"><div class="footer-top bg-secondary"><div class="container"><div class="row"> <figure class="col-lg-2 col-md-2 col-sm-12 ilri-logo mb-lg-m-3"> <img src="/themes/custom/bootstrap_ilri/images/ILRI-logo-white.svg" alt="ILRI logo"/> </figure><div class="col-lg-8 col-md-10 col-sm-12"><div class="row"><div class="col-lg-3 col-md-6 col-sm-6"> <article id="block-footer" class="block-content-content block block-block-content block-block-content01a728fb-b8d2-4e7d-bdde-367bdc89ecc7"><div id="item-53468" class="raw-html paragraph"><h4>ILRI 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