{"id":12981,"date":"2026-06-20T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/public-announcement\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:03","slug":"public-announcement","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/public-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Public announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ibadan, Nigeria \u2013 IITA Management announced today, 16 January 2009, the disengagement of 50 of its staff across the board effective from 15 February 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IITA is an international non-profit research for development organization with headquarters in Nigeria. It&#8217;s funded mainly through the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research which represents a wide donor community. The global financial situation forced us to accelerate the program we started two years ago in improving our efficiency  and effectiveness. In order to continue to achieve our long term strategic investment in finding agricultural solutions to tackle hunger  and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa we needed a more efficient allocation of our Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS). This unfortunately has affected some positions, 50 in total, across the board with effect from 15 February, 2009. Affected staff have been informed  and full terminal benefits  and support will be given to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have been operating successfully for more than 40 years from our Headquarters in Nigeria with stations across the continent  and are confident that our measures will ensure that we can continue to do so for decades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pour plus d'informations, veuillez contacter :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeffrey T. Oliver, <a>o.jeffrey@cgiar.org<\/a><br>Charg\u00e9 de communication d'entreprise (international)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Godwin Atser, <a>g.atser@cgiar.org<\/a><br>Charg\u00e9 de la communication d'entreprise (Afrique de l'Ouest)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bureau de la communication<br>IITA \u2013 Si\u00e8ge<br>Ibadan, Nig\u00e9ria<br><a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.iita.org<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ibadan, Nigeria \u2013 IITA Management announced today, 16 January 2009, the disengagement of 50 of its staff across the board effective from 15 February 2009&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":12779,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[187],"class_list":["post-12981","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-nigeria","item-year-187"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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