{"id":17316,"date":"2026-06-20T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/iita-r4d-to-get-better-stronger-support-with-institutional-restructuring-sholola\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:43:28","slug":"iita-r4d-to-get-better-stronger-support-with-institutional-restructuring-sholola","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/iita-r4d-to-get-better-stronger-support-with-institutional-restructuring-sholola\/","title":{"rendered":"IITA R4D to get better, stronger support with institutional restructuring \u2013 Sholola"},"content":{"rendered":"IITA has experienced rapid growth in the last five years under the current leadership of DG\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/sanginga-nteranya-e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nteranya Sanginga<\/a>\u2015tripling its annual budget and nearly doubling numbers of staff and partnerships. This, in turn, necessitated institutional restructuring and reorganization currently underway to ensure more efficient and stronger support for its research-for-development (R4D) work.\n\nThis was said by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/sholola-omoshalewa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Omoshalewa Sholola<\/a>, the IITA Director of Finance, who was in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 1 to 5 August where he met and updated the IITA staff on the current developments taking place at the Institute. He particularly focused on the new management structure (organogram).\n<div id=\"attachment_1052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_sholola.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1052\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_sholola.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Omoshalewa Sholola addresses IITA-Tanzania staff.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1052\" \/><\/a>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omoshalewa Sholola addresses IITA-Tanzania\u00a0staff.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\u201cIITA has tripled its budget from US$ 47 million in 2011 to US$ 140 million in 2016, and is expected to reach US$ 200 million by end of 2017. And this is still excluding expected funding from TAAT (Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation) and Enable Youth (Empowering Novel Agri-Business-Led Employment),\u201d Sholola said. \u201cAdd these two major initiatives and IITA is looking at a budget of about US$ 300 million,\u201d he added.\n\nHe said the number of staff had also increased almost at the same rate as the number of partners the organization was working with. All these changes required that IITA revisit its organic structure.\n\n\u201cThe refreshed organogram will see a highly decentralized IITA. All the four IITA hubs\u2015Central, Eastern, West, and Southern Africa\u2015will be more independent, with the respective Regional Directors having more decision-making authority related to their hubs,\u201d he explained.\n\nSholola added that at the IITA Headquarters, the three Directorates are also undergoing organizational revamp. \u201cMost of these changes will be finalized by end of this year and will cost the Institute nearly half a million dollars,\u201d Sholola revealed. \u201cAll these changes are primarily aimed at providing a more efficient and stronger support system for our R4D work, which is the core business of IITA,\u201d he added.\n\nOn his part\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/manyong-victor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victor Manyong<\/a>, IITA East Africa Regional Director, thanked Shalewa for taking time to update the staff on the changes and the rationale behind them.\n\n\u201cEvery member of staff at IITA is its ambassador, and therefore they can now explain the changes at IITA confidently. IITA is growing and the growth needs to be sustained by improving efficiency and increasing productivity and the team in Tanzania has taken this challenge seriously,\u201d Manyong said.\n\nSholola was in Tanzania to conduct interviews for a Senior Finance Officer for the hub and also cautioned the\u00a0staff on the importance of fraud which he said the Institute had a zero-tolerance policy towards. He also encouraged them to work hard to support IITA and to make it an excellent and relevant institution in Africa. He was accompanied by the Head of Administration and Finance for Southern Africa\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/ali-adeleke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adeleke Ali<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IITA has experienced rapid growth in the last five years under the current leadership of DG Nteranya Sanginga\u2015tripling its annual budget and nearly doubling numbers of staff and partnerships.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":17317,"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":[2214],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[62],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[194],"class_list":["post-17316","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bulletin-no-2337","location-nigeria","hub-eastern-africa","item-year-194"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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