Kundhavi Kadiresan Managing Director, Global Engagement and Innovation CGIAR....
Kundhavi Kadiresan is managing director, global engagement and innovation, at CGIAR, a global partnership of national and regional-level.
Message from the Executive Management Team
During the year, scientists within the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock worked with national partners in Ethiopia to support the Ethiopian government by optimizing and validating pooled testing.
They also proposed a method using geospatial analysis to map and identify hotspot areas where COVID-19 mass testing should be prioritized. In Kenya, at the request of support from the Kenyan Ministry of Health, ILRI temporarily re-purposed its laboratory to process COVID-19 tests.
By the end of 2020, more than 20,000 samples had been tested for COVID-19.
CGIAR also worked with governments and local partners in numerous countries to inform policies and government decision-making on responses to the pandemic, including through the evaluation of the economic cost of the pandemic, and the development of tools that track food prices and food security and policy responses.
To understand CGIAR’s strengths and challenges from a wider perspective, th