Finance and Administration Division

Donors and Funding

During 1987, core and project funds (including the 10th anniversary) were received from the following donors:

In addition, support in kind was provided by the Government of Kenya (land for the headquarters), the Federal Republic of Germany (two seconded staff), the Government of France (one seconded staff), the Rockefeller Foundation (one postdoctoral scientist), the Government of the Netherlands (four seconded staff), and the Government of Sweden (two seconded staff).

Professional Staff Changes

Mr Robert Huggan (Canada), Dr Marcelino Avila (Belize), Dr Jumanne Maghembe (Tanzania), Dr Bahiru Duguma (Ethiopia), and Dr Emmanuel Torquebiau (France) joined the Council. Mr Huggan joined as Director of the Information and Communications Division; Dr Avila joined the Collaborative Programmes Division; Drs Maghembe and Duguma joined as AFRENA Project Scientists in Southern Africa and Cameroun, respectively; and Dr Torquebiau joined as a Training Officer.

Dr Filemon Torres (Argentina), Head of the Collaborative Programmes Division, left ICRAF in June to take up the post of Deputy Director-General of the Centre International de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Colombia. Dr P.K. Ramachandran Nair, who was responsible for the Agroforestry Systems Inventory and the Field Station, left in December to take up an appointment as Professor of Agroforestry at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

Dr G.B. Singh (India) and Professor Fred Owino (Kenya) joined ICRAF as Senior Visiting Scientists. Professor Flores Paitan completed his 1-year term as Senior Visiting Scientist in May.

Six Research Associates joined ICRAF during the year: Mr A. Pinney (U.K.), Mr Mark Sandiford (U.K.), Mr Mats Lundberg (Sweden), Mr Gustav Boklin (Sweden), Mr Paul Kiepe (The Netherlands), and Mr Arne Heinemann (The Netherlands).

During the year, a number of short-term consultants joined ICRAF to carry out various tasks. Mrs Judy Wolf (USA) was hired for 9 months as Secretary/ Coordinator for the 10th anniversary celebrations. Mr Noel Cook and Ms Clare Wood were hired for 2 months to work on an MPT Database literature search. Mr Wachira Kamonji completed his consultancy assignment on the "women in off-farm lands" project.

Finance and Administration

In the Administrative Unit, the move to ICRAF House in Gigiri and the increase in staff in the other three divisions resulted in a marked increase in the number of junior support staff employed in the Division in 1987. There was not a corresponding increase hi senior divisional staff and a priority for 1988 is to correct this imbalance.

In the Finance Unit, there is now an urgent need for more staff to cater to the increased size and complexity of the financial operations of the Council as research, outreach, and information and communications staff increase.