| [Back to front page] | Communications Unit In May 1997, CIFOR’s Communications Unit was established within the Director General’s Office. A Communications Strategy was finalised and approved later in the year. In the area of publications, a total of 20 in-house publications and 62 publications by CIFOR staff and collaborators in external journals were produced in 1997 (see Appendix 1). The quarterly CIFOR News was distributed to 4346 individuals and institutions in three languages – English, French and Spanish. The 1996 CIFOR Annual Report was also published in those three languages. New corporate publications in 1997 included a compilation of CIFOR Research Abstracts, and a Research and Management Staff Directory. Two monographs were reprinted in response to high demand, as well as other ad hoc publications. An analysis of the publications process including options for improved tracking systems was initiated in 1997. All CIFOR Occasional Papers, CIFOR News, research project updates and governance documents (e.g., CIFOR Strategy, Medium Term Plan), are available on the Center’s webpage. Work was begun to restructure and redesign the webpage in late 1997. In terms of international public awareness activities, CIFOR
participated with two other CGIAR Centers (ICRAF and IPGRI) in an exhibition at the World
Forestry Congress in Turkey in October 1997. CIFOR was also represented at CGIAR-sponsored
displays in Japan and China on international agricultural research. Targetted public
awareness materials about CIFOR were created for these events. |