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Who Comments/actions Status
Finalise CN to share with BoT Shirley with input from others Shirley: Concept note finalized and shared with the Board. Comments received and circulated to ILRI@40 team.
Invitees We’ll invite VIPs to one of a series of ILRI events most convenient to them: e.g., VIPs from India to our Delhi event, North American VIPs to our session at World Food Day in Iowa, African VIPs to our session at AACAA, etc.
- Lists have been assembled. Peter is organizing to have these put into excel and arranged by 3 categories:
- Alumni with high profile we’d want to invite to events
- A broader alumni to keep informed
- Other influential partners etc (who were not ILRI staff/students)

Invitees page

Peter to work on this We also need to review list of past students and fellows for who we might invite (Rob Skilton could help in that)

Ask Bill Thorpe SAT, Subash, Steve SAT, more on South and SE Asia.

Shirley, Suzanne to follow up on ‘who was influential’ – ask the science teams, those in regions etc.

World livestock ambassadors: Target high profile alumni
Invitees We need to send out a message to get in people’s calendars
Staff update Shirley needs to compose a message and send to all staff on this Done
Video product Nadine Educational Video: Not MOOCs. Reuse current livestock facts.
- Select facts that need to be updated
- Organize and link viewers to ILRI YouTube site
Nadine: Talk to Iddo
Gifts etc Muthoni Plaque or nice souvenirs: Not award format. Three categories of gifts - For keynote people, ex DGs and board chairs, and everybody. Muthoni to lead.

Gift Ideas: Samples to be procured ASAP – deadline TBD
- Silk products from Vietnam in ILRI colors
- Keyfobs (aluminum livestock animals from Kenya?) and pens etc.
- T shirts/caps
- Gifts to be tied to livestock – maybe leather keyfobs, or animal shaped designs etc.
Book on impact narratives John Shirley to follow up with John on progress and plans.
- John confirms this is on track, we need a title and a timeline
History piece Susan liaising with James Smith Susan is handling this. There will be two products;
- 2,000-word journal article (to be published in PLOS TDR this summer).
- longer essay (approx. 10,000words) to be ready by September that could form the introduction to the ILRI book on research impacts that John McIntire is organizing.

Susan to consult writer James Smith about the longer article serving as introduction to impact studies.
Logo Apollo and Muthoni Logo selection confirmed
ILRI@40 space on website Peter / Daniel
ILRI@40 hashtag Peter #ILRI40 to be used on all social media
Linkedin group Liya / Tigist Tigist to help animate
need to get people joining
need to get conversations
can use to popularize ilri40 events
set up
ILRI highlights Peter We asked external people in the positioning review what they thought ilri's greatest results were

compile as inputs
ILRI@40 Theme Comms team led by Peter Theme for ILRI @ 40: No tagline needed but an overall theme to guide the conversation at events needed.
ILRI should think up a theme for our ILRI @ 40 events and materials like WFD (‘Innovation, intensification, inspiration’):

Something like:
‘Livestock Traditions, Transitions and Transformations’
(Transmissions, Trangressions, Translocations, Transgenetics)

Shirley will need this from Peter
Theme still TBD
Livestock breeds book Tadelle (Susan) - Susan has organized a team of consultants to write and produce this book, which includes a logistics coordinator and involves Tadelle’s staff in Addis in developing all the consultant contracts. Consultant requests have been approved.
- Book may not be ready in time for November 6th + 7th events
- In attempt to make the deadline, the number of breeds has been reduced to 25 (2 days /breed needed by photographer).
Information briefs on livestock facts Coordinated by Susan Susan following up with Burness; to begin with 100 facts and reduce to 30.
- Need to articulate a time line for the steps to produce this.
- Susan and Shirley have discussed with FAO and agreed that this could be a joint ILRI-FAO product that will combine a series of brief ‘livestock facts’ linked to 2-page factsheets.
- Present task is to align the ILRI and FAO sets of issues and then identify key people to input data.
- Put a time limit? No information should be older than 5 years?

This is a joint product with FAO for the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock
Book on Safe Food Fair Food Peter Book is under review and plan to publish in the second half of this year.
- Summarizes work on food safety in Africa over last 10 years.
- Delia & Kristina responsible for content and Peter for facilitating publication.
Publisher agreed / CTA to co-publish and co-finance

We will also produce 3 briefs (en and french)
Big ideas Susan Susan to look at possibility of (without a huge effort) transforming the 9 ILRI ‘big idea’ concept notes into ‘challenge briefs’ of some kind.
Perhaps these could be repurposed similarly to the briefs developed for the Sere event (which will need updating and rebranding).
Other events Henry Kiara

Shirley

Delia

Nadine
AHITI: (next door) also have an anniversary. Delia will ask Henry Kiara to find out more- need confirmation on dates, theme, and plans. ILRI to participate at a senior level (TBC), have AHITI also attend ILRI Open Day and/or other high profile event maybe AACAA.

Suzanne to follow up with Agnes regarding plans for a bioscience day at CAVS

Early Oct: Multi-stakeholder Platform meeting; if we do our big livestock facts series in partnership with the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, we could promote them here. Shirley to follow up with Agenda. See above – this is possible

16th AAAP Animal Congress 2014: November 10-14, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- What is Jimmy’s role?

Second International Conference on Nutrition (FAO, Rome) Nov 19-21:
Would be good to include a livestock keynote at this event. Two main messages:
- No food security without food safety. Livestock-source foods are essential foods for the poor.
- Delia will get back in touch with the organizer and ask if they will consider adding a livestock keynote presentation to the program. (Jimmy will be in Indonesia 10-14 Nov.)

African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) Sept. 02-04: To take place in Addis Ababa
- Look into having an ILRI booth at the event
- Obtain more information on requirements from AGRA
Find out from staff what they wish to highlight Shirley Shirley to send a message to staff to inform of these plans and to find out what ideas they have for things to highlight; alumni to involve etc. Completed
Wiki Tsehay/Peter Wiki to be used by Taskforce. Explore setting up a site for the materials to be assembled and tracked. Set Up