Most years, ILRI brings together a wide mix of staff in an ‘annual program meeting’ (APM). This year’s event was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15–17 May 2013, and focused on ILRI’s 2013–2022 strategy.
Jo Cadilhon was one of the organizers of this year’s APM. Here he reflects on the event and how it went.
La mayonnaise a pris!
That’s French for ‘the mayonnaise has gelled’. It is a direct analogy to the delicate process of transforming one egg yolk, a teaspoon of mustard and a worryingly large volume of vegetable oil into delicious mayonnaise. We use this phrase in France to picture how a complex process requiring the collaboration of many different viewpoints and personalities has somehow magically turned into an outcome everybody will appreciate and endorse.
That is what happened at ILRI’s annual program meeting two weeks ago in Addis Ababa. Although confident the process would work…
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Dr. Bukar Ali USMAN, mni 