The international Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE) recently presented the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) with 10 top awards for excellence in communication.
ACE aims to extend knowledge about agriculture, natural resources, and life and human science to people worldwide by developing the professional skills of its members. Members include writers, editors, photographers, web developers and researchers working in universities, government agencies and research organizations in the public and private sectors throughout the world. ACE operates an annual Critique and Awards programme geared toward providing members with professional critiques of their work and recognizing those who have excelled. (www.aceweb.org)
This year ILRI won 10 top awards: two gold, four silver and four bronze awards. The awards were presented to ILRI’s corporate communications officer, Grace Ndungu, by ACE’s president Bob Sams at a banquet organized for the conference participants in Albuquerque, New Mexico on 19 June 2007.
Bruce Scott, ILRI’s director of partnerships and communication, says ‘the efforts that have been put into making sure that ILRI’s communicates to the world professionally – so that science can make the biggest difference on world poverty – are starting pay off significantly. It’s very rewarding that others judge us to excel at this.’
007 ACE Gold Awards
Covers of three ILRI big issue briefs: Saving Lives and Protecting Livelihoods,
Climate Change in Africa and Combating Bird flu
Cover of the sixth Annual Peter Doherty lecture
2007 ACE Silver Awards
Content, images and overall presentation of the ILRI Annual Report 2005 ‘Knowledge to Action’
Film script of the ILRI and Doyle Foundation ‘Trypanosomosis Control’ DVD
Images and overall presentation of ILRI’s information folder
Image of a woman spinning cotton in her home in southern Mali,
contained in the ILRI Annual Report 2005
2007 ACE Bronze Awards
Cover of the ‘Mapping climate vulnerability and poverty in Africa’ book
Content, images and overall presentation of the
‘Highlights’ section in the ILRI Annual Report 2005
Image, message and overall presentation of ILRI’s 2006 Christmas Greeting Card
Filming of the ‘ILRI at Work 2006’ DVD
In previous years ILRI has won 6 ACE awards: one gold, two silver and three bronze, for its cutting-edge communications products. (https://www.ilri.org/ILRIPubAware/ShowDetail.asp?CategoryID=TS&ProductReferenceNo=TS%5F060905%5F002