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Annual report 2011
Annual report 2011
Resources
• 52 Human resources
• 54 Financial resources
• 56 The information system
Parity at the IRD
• 57 Platforms open to partners
ALIS
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Annual report 2011
Percentage of IRD staff outside metropolitan France
Human resources
Recruitment and mobility
The recruitment policy has remained dynamic, with 50 posts made available,
24 for engineers and technicians and 26 research positions (12 researchers and
14 research directors). New positions have largely been focused on the South,
with 12 researchers outside mainland France (2 in West and Central Africa, 2 in
Latin America, 2 in Asia and the Pacific, 3 in the Mediterranean, 1 in Réunion and
2 in New Caledonia) and the recruitment of 6 new post-doctoral researchers, of
which 3 are in West Africa and the Indian Ocean, 1 in the Mediterranean and 1
in Latin America.
Presence in the South
Tenured
Non tenured
Total
Researchers
785
52
837
Non-research staff
738
259
997
Permanent local staff
Total
1,523
342
342
653
2,176
At 31/12/2011
The institute has strengthened its position
in the South, with more than 37% of staff
employed outside of mainland France: around
51% in Africa and the Mediterranean, 15%
in Latin America, 9% in Asia and the Pacific,
and 25% in overseas territories. 150 longduration missions were carried out, largely in
Africa and Latin America.
IRD staff by sex
Men
%
Women
%
Researchers
594
71.0
243
29.0
837
Non-research staff
419
42.0
578
58.0
997
225
65.8
117
34.2
342
1,238
56.9
938
43.1
2,176
Permanent local staff
Total
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
35%
37%
35%
34%
32%
34%
30%
Non-research staff 29%
24%
26%
25%
21%
22%
23%
21%
At 31/12/2011
The IRD employs 2,176 staff in total, including 837 researchers, 997 engineers
and technicians and 342 local staff. The average age of an IRD employee is
47 years old - 44 for women and 49 for men. 43% of the total staff are
women. Although still in the minority among our researchers, their proportion
has increased from 28% to 29% in the past year. The percentage of women
among our engineers and technicians has remained fixed at 58%.
IRD staff
2004
Researchers 34%
Total
At 31/12/2011
Training
Ongoing training has focused on support for
the changes and developments at the Institute.
Activity has included managerial support for
the new organisation, support for unit projects
and training for certain professions. In total,
45,420 hours of training were delivered to
1,629 trainees (compared to 39,134 hours in
2010). New forms of training have been offered,
in particular “first aid in isolated locations”.
Elsewhere, our welcome and integration days
have been relaunched, with 55 new employees
taking part.
Number of long-term
missions
Number of
Geographic zone long-term
missions
Africa
85
Latin America
33
Asia and Pacific
20
Europe and North America
1
French overseas regions
3
Frenche overseas collectivities
Total
At 31/12/2011
Institutional dialogue and
social policy
The IRD has implemented reforms to the social dialogue set out in our literature.
A new Technical Committee for Public Bodies, and Special Technical Committees
for France and overseas territories have been established, enabling all IRD agents
to be represented and to have their say with a local service.
The Institute also wanted to establish a location for social dialogue for its foreign
delegations, by means of Representation Councils. These form a social barometer
enabling a measurement of the social environment within the Institute.
IRD researchers by discipline
Research management
Chemistry
Mathematics
Medicine
Physics
Life sciences
Earth sciences
Human sciences
Engineering sciences
Social sciences
43
8
10
35
20
316
191
32
16
166
8
150
Total researchers
by discipline
837
At 31/12/2011
Annual report 2011
IRD staff
by geographic zone
Metropolitan France
|
Asia |
1,377
Total
71
Europe and North America |
2,176
Mediterranean region |
2
61
Representation
At 31/12/2011
Pacific |
West and Central Africa |
115
Latin America and Caribbean region |
308
East and southern Africa and Indian Ocean |
200
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Several activities have been carried out to assist with the Institute's social policy.
As a result, all staff now have their own individual pension funds (1,700 funds were
paid into). In addition, the IRD has committed to implementing concrete actions that
encourage the hiring of disabled persons by signing an agreement with the Fonds pour
l'insertion des personnes handicapées dans la fonction publique (assistance fund for
employing disabled persons in the public sector). A new social service to assist with
insertion has been created by the management board. Lastly, an investigation into
social protection for local staff will enable clarification of the terms for each country
concerned.
Risk prevention
Significant actions in the field of risk prevention have included: the creation
of diagnostics for psychosocial risk at the IRD, the establishing of preventative
information systems before missions begin or during expatriation, and the completion
of a chemical risk evaluation at the Montpellier site. Routine government inspections
took place in Montpellier and Grenoble. The Institute has, in addition, taken the
necessary measures to transform the “Hygiene and safety committees” into “Hygiene,
safety and working conditions committees”.
IRD non-research staff
by occupational category
40,9%
24,1%
Life science
Chemistry and materials science
Engineering science and scientific instrumentation
3,7%
3,2%
Human and social sciences
Data processing, statistics and scientific computing
Documentation, culture, communication, publishing, ICTE
Property management, logistics, prevention and restoration
Management and piloting
At 31/12/2011
4,2%
7,4%
9,8%
6,7%
1
3
11
25
19
37
36
56
52
62
58
59
73
75
68
70
75
67
67
65
63
75
80
54
55
77
68
62
72
68
50
65
69
47
45
36
45
28
32
31
25
21
13
11
3
2
Total 2,176
Men
(Total: 1,238)
60
50
40
30
20
older than
65
65
64
63
62
61
60
59
58
57
56
55
54
53
52
51
50
49
48
47
46
45
44
43
42
41
40
39
38
37
36
35
34
33
32
31
30
29
28
27
26
25
24
23
22
21
10
age 10
Women
(Total: 938)
20
30
40
50
60
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6.23
7.02
Research contract income
by source
European institutions
Financial resources
2.35
Agence nationale de la recherche
French ministries and local authorities
French public institutions
In addition to the launch of the new objectives contract, the IRD has also
reviewed its funding procedures for the three-year period from 2011-2013,
marking a rise in funding allocated to projects during a period where public
funding is generally being cut back. This renewal can be divided into three
phases: the full integration of the IRD into new research funding procedures,
the consolidation of resources in favour of instruments facilitating
cooperation between North and South, and the completion of the first stage
of the modernisation of the management system, begun in 2009.
Key figures
The Institute's net revenue reached d232.934m, against d232.609m expenditure.
The funding received can be broken down into: state funding at d201.682m
(86.6% of the total, compared with 88% in 2010), research contracts (d27.254m,
11.7%), research products, service provision and other products (d3.998m,
1.7%). The total salaries represent d167.155m, or 71.9% of expenditure (a 3%
increase on 2010). In total, the expenditure of our research units increased by
more than d9m compared with the previous financial year, and their budget
accounts for almost 63% of the Institute's financial resources.
Other French partners (public and private)
International partners (public and private)
3.52
5.04
Research contract
income by department
Amount (€M)
Resources and environment department
11.98
Health department
6.14
Management of research and training programmes
3.15
Representation
2.50
Societies department
2.05
Scientific outreach
0.71
Expertise and consulting in the South
0.44
Information and scientific culture for the South
0.13
Decentralised services
0.13
Total
201.68
IRD resources
Government subsidies
Research contracts
Income from research applications
Other subsidies and outputs
2.47
1.52
Total (€Million)
232.93
27.25
3.09
Human resources
27.25
Total (€Million)
0.02
27.25
Resources that are fully tailored to the
national funding operations for projects
Sixty percent of IRD research consortiums are integrated into scientific
programmes that are beneficiaries of the Investissements d’avenir scheme. This
year has also seen funding for research contracts confirmed, with d27.254m in
revenue received. This represents an increase of 4%, caused in particular by the
increase in power of European (including FP7 and FEDER) and foreign funding
(particularly in response to Agency programmes), which form 25% and 19.5%
of revenue respectively.
Annual report 2011
Research unit expenditure (€M)
Research department
Payroll
Operating costs
and investments
Total
Environment and Resources department
78.03
14.12
92.16
Health department
22.14
6.47
28.61
Societies department
22.7
2.67
25.37
Total
122.87
23.26
146.14
Research programme
Payroll
Operating costs
and investments
Total
Natural hazards and climate
5.65
1.03
6.68
Sustainable management of southern ecosystems
21.45
2.96
24.41
Continental and coastal waters
22.75
4.12
26.87
Food security in the South
22.88
4.76
27.64
Public health and health policy
23.29
6.54
29.83
Development and globalisation
26.85
3.85
30.7
Total
122.87
23.26
146.14
Payroll
Operating costs
and investments
Total
Research and training programmes in the South
0.85
5.34
6.19
Expertise and consulting in the South
0.59
0.87
1.46
Information and Scientific Culture for the the South
4.85
1.8
6.65
Geostrategy and partnership
10.41
3.42
13.83
4.67
Expenditure on cross-cutting activities (€M)
Scientific outreach
2.65
2.02
Scientific assessment, ethics
0.34
0.4
0.74
In-service training
0.19
1.25
1.44
AIRD Agency
0.67
0.85
1.52
Naval resources (operation and investment)
0.11
4.7
4.81
0.58
0.58
20.66
21.23
41.89
Payroll
Operating costs
and investments
Total
Welfare
0.22
1.52
1.74
Information systems
3.08
5.99
9.07
Maintenance
0.77
0.77
Major renovations
0.19
0.19
Construction
0.01
0.01
Major scientific capital equipment
Total
A significant financial operation to support instruments
that enable grounded research in the South
Incentive credits have allowed us to support teams to a level of almost d1.9m. The financial
efforts agreed in 2010 to support regional pilot programmes have been maintained, with the
aim of preserving the dynamic partnerships with scientific communities in the South with shared
geographical and thematic priorities. Allocated contributions are valued at d740,000. For example,
the “GOPS centre for long-term monitoring of terrestrial and marine ecosystems in the South
Pacific” and the programmes on “rural societies, environment and climate in West Africa” and
“tropical rainforests” have received funding of d320,000. In addition, the credits made available
to laboratories and research consortiums (LMI/UMI) have increased by more than one third, to
d332,000.
Lastly, the programmes co-financed by the AIRD are also contributing to this new position. As
such, nearly one million euros in support has been released from their intervention fund to assist
the deployment of three flagship programmes relating to the Institute research teams' priorities
in terms of areas and topics of intervention: SYSTERRA, in the field of eco-cultivation; SICMED
(continental surface and interface in the Mediterranean); and the Franco-Egyptian IRD-STDF(1)
programme for funding collaborations between research teams.
IRD expenditure
by type
64.09
167.15
Operating costs and non-programmed investments
Programmed investments
Support function expenditure (€M)
Total (€Million)
Decentralised services
9.13
5.29
14.42
Central services
10.81
7.04
17.85
0.1
0.1
Financial operations
Payroll
Other general expenses
0.37
0.04
0.41
Total
23.61
20.95
44.56
232.6
1.36
Expenditure by geographical region
Metropolitan France
Overseas France
Mediterranean
Africa and Indian Ocean
Latin America
Asia
Other countries
(1) Science and Technology Development Fund.
133.69
22.96
8.79
36.04
17.81
12.40
0.89
Total (€Million)
232.6
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The Information system
The IRD has adopted a new blueprint for the information and telecommunications
system (SDSIT), working in tandem with the objectives contract, with the
following priorities: integrating the IRD into the international community;
progressing the Agency and partnerships in the South, especially by supporting
the creation of shared scientific platforms; and supplying all information
required to run the Institute as an agency operator. The implementation of this
new management plan will benefit from co-funding in cooperation with the
Institute's partners. The SDSIT 2011-2015 plan is already 5% complete.
Requirements for controlling payroll and jobs have been set out in an IT
specifications file. A tool for recording staff activity has been created to
gradually build up an infocentre. Various improvements have been made to the
agreement management tool in order to simplify the decision-making process
Numerous systems also contribute to the management of resources, activities
and partnerships.
The financial administration IT system has been deployed in various units in
Bondy and Montpellier to assist with the decentralisation of purchasing. An
optimisation plan for the HR administration system has been initiated. The IRD
has signed up for the procedure led by the AMUE(1) and the CNRS that aims
to homogenise management rules and systems for research consortiums. In
addition, GIS (geographic information system) licences have been made available
to IRD researchers and partners, with training and methodology provided.
On behalf of the AIRD and in cooperation with RENATER(2) and Cirad, support
was given to WACREN, an African organisation that seeks to create a network for
higher education and research IT systems in West Africa. On this topic, various
appraisals and knowledge exchanges took place with the government of Benin.
Laboratory / Bondy
Parity at the IRD
Professional equality is a major issue for our organisation, particularly in our
partnerships with the South. It forms part of a national policy in which the
Public sector has a duty to lead by example. Nevertheless, inequalities are still
in evidence and very few women hold managerial jobs within the Institute. The
IRD has only one woman on its managerial committee, 5 managers in central
services at our headquarters, 8 female unit directors out of 56 and only 3 female
representatives.
An Equality initiative was created in November 2011 in order to create
systematic and durable support for issues of professional equality. It is based on
an Equality committee made up of sixteen experts and public figures, from the
North and the South.
The initiative will begin with the observation of equality conditions within the
Institute, continuing with a comparative analysis of the situation. The Equality
committee will then analyse the principal hindrances and obstacles encountered
by women in the workplace, to enable the development of a policy that closely
meets the needs of our agents and offers concrete solutions to promote careers
and improve working conditions for women.
(1) Agency for cooperation between universities.
(2) National telecommunications network for technology, teaching and research.
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Platforms open to partners
The IRD is committed to sharing its resources to create installations that are
equipped with the latest technology, not only in mainland France, but also
in French overseas territories and abroad. Several technological platforms
allow for state-of-the-art research, such as ALYSES, dedicated to the study
of tropical soil and sediments, or CapMédiTrop, for the genetic analysis of
cultivated tropical plants. In the field of healthcare, several medical research
laboratories are helping to find a response to the problems of public health in
Southern countries, such as those working with HIV in Thailand or malaria in
Benin. The CNEV (French national vector research facility) is also part of this
operation against infectious diseases. Significant resources are also allocated
to the observation and study of ecosystems: Satellite networks (SEAS),
observatories for environmental research (ORE) and tropical herbariums in
Nouméa and Cayenne. In addition, the oceanographic vessel Alis is navigating
its way around the Pacific.
Satellites to help the environment
Several satellite-enhanced environmental monitoring stations (SEAS) are run by
the IRD. SEAS-Guiana, SEAS-Gabon and SEAS-Indian Ocean give us a genuine
spatial observatory for the protection of forests in the Amazon and Central
Africa as well as for monitoring the marine and coastal environment in the
south-west Indian Ocean. These technology platforms stimulate the creation of
scientific knowledge, and innovative services for resource management and the
development and monitoring of territories. Combined with field observations, the
satellite data acquired and processed at these stations is made available to local
and scientific communities. Activities relating to training, the strengthening of
capacities and technological transfers are also established around these projects.
Remote sensing / Gabon
Combating malaria in Benin
Created in 2011, the Laboratory for integrated malaria control is an LMI
grouping together all research activities in Benin that are linked to the
fight against Malaria. This technical and scientific platform supports the
development of research programmes into tropical diseases and to combat
vectors. It includes several IRD units, the Science Faculty from AbomeyCalavi University, the Institut des sciences biomédicales appliquées, the
Centre de recherche entomologique de Cotonou and the Centre de lutte
intégrée contre le paludisme.
A dedicated programme for the Mediterranean
Created in 2008, MISTRALS (Mediterranean Integrated STudies at Regional And
Local Scales) is dedicated to understanding the environmental functions of the
Mediterranean basin under the effects of global change. It aims to coordinate
interdisciplinary research and study programmes relating to the atmosphere, the
hydrosphere, the lithosphere and paleoclimates, including environmental ecology
and human and social sciences. The aim is to achieve a better understanding
and control of the mechanisms that shape and influence the landscape, the
environment and the anthropization of the Mediterranean region. MISTRALS
brings together the major French research organisations (Ademe, BRGM, CEA,
Cemagref, Cirad, Cnes, CNRS, IFP, Ifremer, Inar, IRD, IRSN, Météo-France) and
aims to share its work with all Mediterranean countries.
ALYSES platform / Bondy
Combating malaria / Benin
Contact:
dgds@ird.fr