Reaching stakeholders, influencing policies: ICAR–ILRI communications workshop

In May this year, ILRI and ICAR held a joint workshop on communications and KM; this post covers the discussions on focus area 2: Communicating evidence for wider influence by engaging with and influencing decision-makers

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IndiaWomenAtICAR-ILRIcommsWorkshop_CroppedSome of the ICAR scientists and communications staff at an ICAR-ILRI communications workshop in New Delhi in March 2016 (ILRI/Susan MacMillan).

Note: This is the ninth in a series of articles on

‘Curds and goats, lives and livelihoods—

A dozen stories from northern and eastern India‘.

Part 9: Reaching stakeholders, influencing policies:
ICAR–ILRI communications workshop

By Jules Mateo and Susan MacMillan,

of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

This is the second of three reports on a Mar 2016 ICAR–ILRI communications workshop held at ICAR’s New Delhi research complex.

A communications workshop co-sponsored by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) was held on 4 March 2016 in New Delhi, India.

Jointly organized by ILRI’s Communications and Knowledge Management (CKM) team and ICAR’s Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture (DKMA), the workshop’s goals were to share experiences and best practices in livestock…

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