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The IRD around the world
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Editorial
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Key figures for 2014
IRD in brief
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Highlights of 2014
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2014 IRD
THE IRD AROUND THE WORLD
THE IRD AROUND
THE WORLD
EXPATRIATE, SECONDED,
LOCAL STAFF
Staff at 31/12/12
Source Personnel Department
IRD centre or office
1-9
10-18
20-28
31-50
91-130
staff
staff
staff
staff
staff
members members members members members
Other form of presence
1-9
10-18
staff
staff
members members
Centre in overseas territories
FRANCE
1 ,352 staff members
United States
TUNISIA
MOROCCO
Lebanon
Nepal
EGYPT
MEXICO
Haiti
MARTINIQUE
Colombia
FRENCH
GUIANA
ECUADOR
FRENCH
POLYNESIA
SENEGAL
Mali
THAILAND
Guinea
CÔTE D’IVOIRE
BENIN
CAMEROON
Uganda
KENYA
MADAGASCAR
BOLIVIA
REUNION
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SOUTH AFRICA
Cambodia
Ethiopia
Seychelles
Comoros
BRAZIL
CHILE
LAOS
VIETNAM
BURKINA
FASO
Gabon
PERU
India
NIGER
Guadeloupe
INDONESIA
East Timor
Vanuatu
NEW
CALEDONIA
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EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL
IRD’S NEW GOVERNANCE
CONSOLIDATING ACHIEVEMENTS
AND RISING TO NEW CHALLENGES IN
RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT
Jean-Paul Moatti,
Chairman & Executive Director
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his progress report from the Institute looks back at 2014, the last year
under the responsibility of the previous governing body headed by
Professor Michel Laurent, to whom we owe a huge thank you for his
contribution to our organisation’s work, as Executive Director then
Chief Executive Officer. This report shows, if proof were necessary, that
IRD remains a significant contributor to scientific research in the Frenchspeaking world, and that it continues to be a strategic element in French
policy on development aid for countries of the South. The entire report
demonstrates that, through research excellence, IRD endeavours to rise
to the great challenges faced by these countries and the rest of the world:
environmental changes, biodiversity loss, rarefaction of soil and water
resources, vulnerability to natural risks, emergence of infectious diseases,
the growth in so-called "civilisation" diseases, and deepening economic
inequalities resulting in increasingly unacceptable social discrepancies in
terms of access to resources, education and the healthcare system.
Over the coming months, the Institute’s new governing body, set up after
my appointment as Chief Executive Officer by a Council of Ministers’ decree
on 11 March 2015, and my nomination of Jean-Marc Châtaigner as Deputy
Executive Director, will focus on preparing the new performance contract
for 2016-2020 in the best possible conditions.
To ensure that the drafting on the new performance contract is based on
cross-disciplinary scientific programming, I have tasked the Institute’s
Scientific Council, backed by all our scientific bodies and staff, with
reflection work ahead of a report on the current scientific situation and
outlook, to be submitted to me this autumn. That report should help make
sure that research for development and scientific partnerships with the
South are better integrated in the ten social challenges that now form the
priority focus areas for research in France, in accordance with the European
Union programme, Horizon 2020, and the national research strategy
currently being drafted.
The report will be of major importance when it comes to drafting IRD’s
2015-2030 strategic plan, which will be finalised by the end of this year,
with support and advice from a strategic policy committee made up of
high-ranking personalities from the world of science and development,
who have agreed to help us with this. The 2015-2030 strategic plan will set
out the medium and long-term prospects and define a framework for the
shorter-term discussions on our new performance contract.
Following the abolition of the former AIRD (inter-institutional research
agency for development), the consequences of which are described in
this report, it seems clear to me that one of the main challenges in our
strategic plan will be defining how IRD can position itself as a key player
in the outreach to the South by the five alliances (AllEnvi, Allistene, Ancre,
Athéna and Aviesan) that now form a framework for the pooling of French
public research.
Another important aspect will be better rooting IRD’s activities within
scientific diplomacy work serving our country and the French-speaking
world as a whole. This implies the promotion of cross-disciplinary work
to address the main challenges of the developing world, efforts to build
research and innovation capacities for our partners in the South, and
greater responsiveness to the environmental, geopolitical or healthrelated crises that regularly affect these parts of the world. 2015 will
bring us numerous opportunities to demonstrate that science can help
reconcile the various "agendas" that reign over the complexity of NorthSouth relations in a depolarised world: the agenda on wealth distribution
worldwide, at the heart of the Third International Conference on Financing
for Development to be held in Addis Ababa in July under the auspices of
the United Nations; the agenda for the reconciliation of economic growth
and respect for ecological, social and cultural balances which will inspire
the launch of the post-2015 sustainable development objectives at a United
Nations summit in New York in September; and finally, the climate change
agenda, negotiations over which will culminate with the 21st Conference of
the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention (COP21) in Paris
in December. Following on from the commitment made by the Institute’s
researchers to their Peruvian partners at the previous conference (COP 20)
in Lima, the details of which are included in this report, IRD will work
closely with other French public research organisations and universities
to try and show how the excellence of its research partnership approach
may enlighten certain decision-making processes concerned with these
global issues.
Preparation of the next performance contract also means we now need to
speed up the modernisation of IRD’s management, with the aim of making
more efficient use of our budgets for research, consolidating our scientific
partnership arrangements with countries of the South, making progress
in terms of parity and the employment of people with disabilities, and
increasing our attractiveness among young researchers.
In short, 2015 and the years to come are brimming with potential for IRD,
but we will need to apply ourselves and remain entirely rigorous in our
work.
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KEY FIGURES FOR 2014 - IRD IN BRIEF
KEY FIGURES
FOR 2014
THE IRD STAFF
RESEARCH
2.221
56
including 835 researchers,
935 engineers and technicians
and 451 local staff
consortiums
and 7 observatories
STAFF MEMBERS
39%
OF STAFF MEMBERS OUTSIDE
MAINLAND FRANCE
RESEARCH
3.682
SCIENTIFIC
PUBLICATIONS
in 2013
CAPACITY BUILDING
185
BURSARIES
allocated to scientists,
including dont 147 for theses
42
NEW TEAMS
supported in the South
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INNOVATION
116
PATENTS HELD
FINANCIAL RESOURCES
€237M
OF BUDGET
46%
€34.4M
with Southern countries
from conventions
and approved products
CO-AUTHORED
REVENUE
IRD
IN BRIEF
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RD is a research organisation unlike any other in
the field of European research for development.
It is a French public scientific and technological
institution operating under the joint authority of
the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research
and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. IRD endeavours to
meet major development challenges by undertaking
research, training, and innovation activities in the
South, for the South, and with the South, with an
on-going focus on sharing knowledge and pooling
resources and skills.
From its headquarters in Marseille and its two
centres in metropolitan France (B ondy and
Montpellier), it operates in nearly 90 countries in
Africa, the Mediterranean, Latin America, Asia and
France’s tropical overseas territories. Based on an
interdisciplinary approach, the projects carried out with
its partners address issues of crucial importance for the
countries of the South: tropical diseases and diseases
of civilisation, food security, climate change, water
resources, biodiversity, the development of societies,
social inequality and vulnerability, migration, etc.
2014 IRD
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2014
HIGHLIGHTS
OF 2014
JANUARY/FEBRUARY/MARCH
Lengguru expedition/West Papua
APRIL/MAY/JUNE
IRD celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Niakhar population and
health observatory in Senegal
Presentation of the expert group review on the development of Lake
Chad at N’Djamena
Inauguration of the Cambodian regional platform for research into
transmissible and emerging infectious diseases in Southeast Asia
Review of the European Smiling project on micronutrient deficiencies,
held in Vietnam
Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny welcomed the new IRD representation
from Côte d’Ivoire
Inauguration in Marseille of the CVT "Valorisation Sud" head office (Cirad,
Institut Pasteur, IRD)
7th international HIV/hepatitis conference for Francophones (AFRAVIH)
in Montpellier
International forum on "Restoring soil productivity to benefit populations
in Haiti"
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
The Bond’Innov incubator organised its second "North/South innovative
Study into infectious
diseases in Southeast
Asia
entrepreneurship event"
IRD mobilised for action against Ebola, with nine new research
programmes
IRD took part in the 20th Conference of the parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change
Lenggurru 2014 expedition in West Papua, the largest ever undertaken
in Indonesia
Ebola epidemic/Guinea
Drought in the
Maasai region/
Tanzania
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