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> Alis, the IRD’s ocean station vessel

IRD • AnnuAl report 2012

> Mounting of atmospheric

sensors, PIRATA campaign

resources • HuMAn resourCes

The Institute’s Human Resources policy is broken down according to several priorities: the

development of skills, the administrative and social support of all agents regardless

of their status or geographical location and the corresponding labour law.

human resources

RD employs 2,346 agents of all categories, including 842 re-searchers, 973 engineers and technicians (IT) and 530 staff members recruited in developing countries (331 permanent

and 199 temporary members), regardless of the source of their funding (state subsidy or research contract) .1

> Strong representation in developing countries

The Institute has 1,014 agents working in developing countries: 266 researchers, 218 engineers and technicians, 331 permanent staff members recruited locally and 199 temporary staff members, i.e. 43% of its workforce.

The 632 agents working in research units in developing countries can rely on an administrative, logistical and technical network of 27 representations, which employ 306 agents locally. This permanent network is an anchor point to promote and fa-cilitate French and European research in developing countries.

In addition to appointments, agents carrying out assignments in developing countries and researchers at partner institutions also receive funding. 53,335 days of international assignments have thus been carried out in developing countries – from developed countries (41,087 days) and developing countries (12,248 days) alike – i.e. more than 135 full-time equivalents. 81% of IRD travel days involve a developing country.

Furthermore, as part of the performance contract, discus-sions were initiated concerning future industries in developing countries (research units and representations) through forward-looking human resources management (GPRH - Gestion prévisionnelle des ressources humaines), taking into account the requirements of academic and corporate partners in developed and developing countries. The idea is to coordinate a space for shared refl ection in order to rethink working methods in developing countries, for developing countries and with developing countries, through its duties as a unifying agency and operator.

> Research: the Institute’s core businessIRD continues to invest in its core business and maintained

its scientifi c programme in 2012. Eighteen new researchers have been recruited through competitive examinations. These young re-searchers will acquire experience in the fi eld, in developing

countries, during the two years following their recruitment. Six post-doctoral candidates positioned in developing countries have completed this programme.

Nine engineers and technicians were recruited within the units and 31 new International Administrative Volunteers have joined them.

Thus, 1,579 agents are working for research in units, counting for 67% of the entire IRD population.

> The strengthening and increased professionalism of Human Resources

New tools have been implemented in order to support repre-sentations and research units in the management of their teams. The system for controlling employment and the payroll has been entirely revamped. A shared, collaborative working space between representations, Human Resources Management and the Ac-counting Agency was opened to enable the improved monitoring of each country’s agents. Best practice guides (management of locally recruited staff, expatriate guide) have been produced or updated.

Each structure now has a single contact person to manage the individual situations of all its agents.

> IRD – invested in its agentsAs part of continuous training, 37,026 hours of training were

organised for 1,352 trainees. In particular, specifi c training sessions were set up: management training, orientation seminars for new representatives and newcomers, and researcher support training.

Furthermore, following the fi ndings of the diagnosis on psycho-social risks performed in 2011, the IRD social policy was strength-ened with the 2013 programme to establish an observatory for these risks, the renewal of the social barometer, the establishment of the handicap agreement and the identifi cation of reference points, support for agents through pre- and post-expatriation interviews, and the implementation of repatriation insurance.

Lastly, a social dialogue agenda was put forward to labour orga-nisations and the network of offi cial bodies most involved with the agents was developed: apart from the “Public institution technical committee” and “Special technical committees” in metropolitan France and the overseas departments, 23 representation advisory boards were created or are in the process of being created.

floW of missions in number of days

north/north: 30 ,702(19.8 %)

south/south: 57,135(36.9 %)

north/south: 41 ,087(26.6%)

south/north: 25 ,844(16.7 %)

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1 Figures as on 31/12/12

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resources • HuMAn resourCes

Scientific departments

Metropolitan France

Western and Central Africa

Latin America and Caribbean Asia Pacific Mediterranean East Africa and

Indian OceanEurope - North

America Total

Environment and resources 607 92 71 44 72 42 28 1 957

Health 147 130 16 92 3 - 1 1 390

Communities 153 33 18 7 2 12 7 - 232

Total 907 255 105 143 77 54 36 2 1,579

distribution of staff by scientific department and geographical area scientific departments

Figures as on 31/12/12

Themes Researchers Engineers and Technicians

Locally recruited permanent

staff

Locally recruited

temporary staff Total

Environment and Resources 483 370 69 35 957

Health 122 102 32 134 390

Societies 177 40 4 11 232

Southern Research and Training Scheduling 3 11 - - 14

Southern Promotion 2 15 - - 17

Southern Scientific Information & Culture 3 66 4 - 73

Geostrategy, Partnership 20 31 184 17 252

Scientific coordination 17 15 - - 32

Scientific assessment, ethics 1 5 - - 6

Continuous training - 4 - - 4

AIRD Agency Coordination 3 11 - - 14

Seagoing resources - 1 - - 1

Social action - 3 - - 3

Information systems - 33 12 - 45

Territorial services 10 113 23 2 148

Central services 1 154 3 - 158

Total 842 974 331 199 2,346

distribution of staff by theme


distribution of staff by geographical areain % number of agents

Metropolitan france Western and Central Africa latin America and Caribbean Asia pacific Mediterranean east Africa and indian ocean europe-north America

0.1% (3)

16.7%(393)

7.5%(175)

56.7% (1 330)

7.5%(175)

5.5%(130)

3.2%(75)

2.8% (65)

TOTAL

2,346

Tenured and hosted Contractual workers governed by French

public law

Contractual workers governed by local law Total

Researchers 788 54 - 842

Engineers and Technicians 725 249 530 1 ,504

Total 1,513 303 530 2,346

the staff


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pyramid of ages (excl. locally recruited temporary staff)

0 50 100 150 200050100150200250

[60 et +]

[55-60]

[50-55]

[45-50]

[40-45]

[35-40]

[30-35]

[25-30]

[20-25]

[0-20]

Female staffMale staff

Age

81

112

165

148

154

138

72

42

55

82

156

163

186

212

226

122

0

22



TOTAL MALE

1,213TOTAL FEMALE

934


resources • tHe inforMAtion systeM -gender equAlity

Professional equality is an important issue for the institution, in particular in terms of partnerships with

developing countries. It is part of a national policy where the public sector has a duty to set an example.

gender equality

> A first statistical overview of the role of women at IRD

The Institute is in line with the average for other public scientific and technological establishments, both in terms of workforce and the positions filled by women. We can see a slight increase in the female workforce over the last 5 years, especially where researchers are concerned. Women are younger and make up the majority of the workforce in the lower ranks. They are still underrepresented in positions of responsibility or higher ranks. We can also see that fewer women are elected than those nominated in management bodies and there is a 13.3% pay gap between men and women. This first series of indicators will help analyse the development of the role of women in IRD over the coming years.

> Facilitating long-term assignments and expatriation

Only a third of women work abroad or on long-term assignments. Together, the gender equality section and the IRD social development department have led discussions to implement a support programme for parents by taking care of their children while they are away on long-term assignments. IRD social advisers will be involved in this new support pro-gramme from 2013.

> Awareness raising among the various authorities of the institution and staff members

The film “L’une est l’autre” was produced in order to serve as a communication medium. It is intended to provoke discus-sions on the role of women working in a research organisation and the issues of gender equality throughout the working life (training, finding employment, balancing working and private life, career, professional ambition, etc.).

The 2011-2015 blueprint for the information system and telecommunications has been revised to take into

account the Institute’s budgetary restrictions. It has been 28% completed.

the information system

> Facilitate the Deployment of Scientific Platforms in the South

A consortium of African, English, and Finnish organisations1, RENATER2, Cirad, and IRD have contributed to the preparation of a second section of the AFRICACONNECT project within the European Commission. This will make it possible to facilitate the deployment of computer networks for National Research and Education Networks (NRENs)3 in West and Central Africa. This consortium has also submitted a support project for WACREN, an African organisation responsible for encouraging the inter-connection of these networks.

In conjunction with RENATER and Cirad, some recommen-dations have been transmitted to the Cameroonian and Malagasy governments to facilitate their NREN network project.

Also, expert services have been offered to the ESPACE-DEV unit to qualify the IT infrastructure of its forestry partners in Central Africa, in order to deploy remote sensing platforms.

Support has also been given to GIS GOPS, on the NumériSud digital campus, and—in the context of the SPIRALES call for pro-jects—to 13 units within the computing components of scientific projects being led in the South.

> Simplify the Coordination and Administrative Management of the Institute

IRD has continued its contributions to the inter-establish-ment project4 aiming to standardise administrative management policies and the tools for joint units. A pilot programme has been conducted by two of the Institute’s units.

In the interest of administrative simplification, the financial information system has been deployed in all units to support the decentralisation of purchases, and new tools have been imple-mented to facilitate the coordination of payroll and employment.

> Facilitate ExchangesThe operator Orange Business Services has been chosen to

supply the international telecommunications links with a pro-gressive deployment in the first half of 2013.

The Montpellier IT platform servers have been replaced and the Bondy centre has received an IP5 automatic telephone exchange system offering additional features and enabling ex-changes with Montpellier through the IT network. A joint solu-tion with CNRS was selected to meet the needs for collaborative exchanges.

Twelve new representation websites and ten unit sites have been put into service.

> Reduce CostsFinally, wide-ranging technical rationalisation actions, the

revision of certain levels of service, and the implementation of a quality strategy have made it possible, in a restricted environ-ment, to reduce recurring costs by 15% in two years.

1. West And Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) – Association des universités africaines (Association of African Universities, AUA) – Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe (DANTE – Cambridge) – University of Oulu (UoO – Finland).2. REseau NAtional de Télécommunications pour la technologie, l’Enseignement et la Recherche (National telecommunications network for Technology, Education and Research).3. National Research and Education Network.4. AMUE-CPU-CNRS-Inserm.5. Internet Protocol.

> Plankton study, Bay of Bizerte / Tunisia

Since the 1960s, the need for intricate knowledge of African population dynamics has led researchers, and particularly demographers, to develop observation systems which enable them to monitor populations over several decades. Today, the population registration systems are still experiencing implementation difficulties and the censuses are complex and costly. In this context, 49 demographic monitoring systems have been implemented worldwide, nearly three quarters of which in Africa. They are assembled in an international network called the INDEPTH network. The Niakhar site in Senegal was set up in 1962, making it one of the oldest health and demographic surveillance systems in Africa. This multi-disciplinary research platform is well-recognised in the fields of health, social dynamics and the environment. It is located in the centre of a surveillance zone of around 44,000 inhabitants spread across a 230 km² area in the region of Sine Saloum, 155 km from Dakar. Surveys have been carried out on thirty villages every three months since 1997. This observatory provides quality information on demographic, health, social and environmental changes that is useful to political decision-makers and development players. It enables interventions aimed at improving people’s living conditions to be monitored and evaluated, and is used to develop innovative research methodologies. The research conducted on the populations in Niakhar, Mlomp and Bandafassi, has allowed the IRD to show the catastrophic impact the emergence of resistance to chloroquine has had on malaria mortality rates in Africa. More recently, the results obtained on a seasonal malaria prevention treatment led the WHO to make international recommendations to introduce this new strategy in the prevention policies of the National Malaria Control Programme in Senegal.

niakhar: a multi-disciplinary observatory

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resources • plAtforMs open to our pArtners

The IRD is committed to a resource pooling strategy which gives the scientific community

access to the tools that are essential to its work, not only in mainland France, but also in its

overseas territories and abroad.

platforms open to our partners

The institute therefore invests in numerous observatories, platforms and equipment to ensure that available knowledge is passed on to as many people as possible. It supports several technological platforms enabling cutting-edge research to be conducted. ALYSES in Bondy, for instance, is dedicated to tropical sediment and soil research while CapMédiTrop in Montpellier focuses on the genetic analysis of cultivated tropical plants.

The medical research laboratories, on HIV in Thailand and Cameroon, on emerging infectious diseases in Gabon and on Malaria in Benin, help overcome the public health challenges faced in Southern countries. The CRVOI (research centre for Indian Ocean emerging diseases) and the CNEV (national centre for vector expertise) are also part of this operation against infectious diseases.

Vast resources have also been dedicated to ecosystem observation and research. The satellite dish networks (SEAS) are growing in the Indian Ocean, Guiana, Haiti and Central Africa. In a context of global change, the environmental research observatories are enabling long-term observations and monitoring. Over the years, they have become vital tools for ensuring the controlled management of resources. The overseas centres also possess remarkable plant biology collections with herbaria from Noumea and Cayenne. The ocean station vessels Alis et Antea also cruise the Pacifi c and tropical Atlantic, enabling scientists to carry out partnership oceanographic campaigns.

The integrated approaches to experimental water catchment areas combining hydrologic and biohydrogeochemical research bring together many worldwide multi-disciplinary teams. Assembling several French, Cameroonian and Indian partners, the Système d’observation des bassin versants expérimentaux tropicaux (SO BVET) (Tropical Experimental Water Catchment Area Observation System) aims to study the impact climatic changes and agricultural practices have on hydrosystems. It carries out long-term meteorological, hydrologic, hydrogeological, geochemical and agronomic monitoring on small forest and cultivated experimental catchment areas. These analyses are completed in larger rivers like the Nyong river in Cameroon and the Kabini river in South India. These research activities are supported by analytical platforms: the Laboratoire d’analyse géochimique des eaux (LAGE) (Water Geochemical Analysis Laboratory) in Cameroon and the Cellule franco-indienne de recherche en sciences de l’eau (LMI CEFIRSE) (Franco-Indian Water Science Research Unit) which also combines a digital modelling platform. These mechanisms provide the observation system databases with vital information, accessible to Southern scientists, while enabling ecosystem functioning scenarios to be established.

a better understanding of water catchment areas

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> Field survey, Niakhar / Senegal

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IRD’s budgetary strategy is structured around 3 objectives within the context of the recovery

of public finances:

• consolidating the scientific excellence of research teams within a strengthened collaborative

framework with our developing country partners;

• supporting the rise of the Agency by bringing together corporate and financial partners from

developed and developing countries;

• continuing the modernisation efforts made by the support system.

financial resources

resources • finAnCiAl resourCes

the ird’s resources government subsidies research agreements value-added products other subsidies and incomes

88.4 %(€200.87m)

9.9 %(€22.48m)

1.1 %(€2.44m)

0.6 %(€1.35m)

origins of the allocated resources,including research agreements

european funds Agence nationale de la recherche (Anr) french Ministries local governments french public establishments other french public organisations french private partners other foreign public partners foreign private partners (including international organisations)

> Key figuresThe Institute’s net income amounts to !227.136m for !236.502m

of expenditure. The funds received correspond to a !200.866m state subsidy (i.e. 88.4% of the total income, compared to 86.6% in 2011), research contracts (!22.482m, i.e. 9.9%), research products, services provided and other products (!3.788m, i.e. 1.7%). The payroll repre-sents !168.788m, or 71.4% of expenses (+0.98% compared to 2011). In total, the expenditure of research units had increased by more than !3m compared to the previous financial year, and their budget has mobilised 63.1% of the Institute’s financial resources.

> Increased financial resources in favour of tools supporting the establishment of research in developing countries

Maintaining excellence in partnership-based research entails sustained and continuous investment in collaborative technical platforms meeting the highest standards. In this regard, efforts to fund major projects between partners should be emphasised, in particular in mainland France, following the example of Equi-pEx GEOSUD in terms of remote sensing. Thus, the investment budgeting/accomplishment rate increased by 65.3% compared to 2011. Internationally, the LMI/UMIs and PPRs have received special support. Their funding – through “incentive credits” or “finalised actions” – increased by 25% (respectively from !3.2m to !4m between 2011 and 2012).

> The continued deployment of activities linked to AIRD

There has been increased interaction between the Agency and the operator with nearly !1m in commitments to support the deployment of the SYSTERRA and SICMED programmes, in addition to the French-Egyptian IRD-STDF programme1.

The Agency’s level of financial commitment has increased by 80% between 2011 (!25m) and 2012 (!45m), with an increase of nearly 7% in IRD’s financial contributions (from !13.9m to !15,), due mainly to the strong rise in revenue generated through inno-vation (+ !3.1m, i.e. a 60% rise thanks to the launch of the “Valori-sation Sud” CVT and higher patent royalties: + !500K).

Several projects aimed at a pooled foreign network are also underway.

TOTAL (in eM)

227.14

1. Science and Technology Development Fund.

> The vessel Antea after renovation

20.07%(€4.73m)

TOTAL (in eM)

23.56

15.88%(€3.74m)

13.61 %(€3.21m)

12.31%(€2.90m)

12.29%(€2.89m)

10.81%(€2.55m)

6.82%(€1.61m)

5.44%(€1.28m)

2.78%(€0.65m)

resources • finAnCiAl resourCes

> The launch of an initiative to optimise the support system

In order to continue the Institute’s modernisation and administration activities, several leading initiatives (of which some are provided for in the performance contract) have been launched.

The 2012-2015 multiannual real estate strategic plan has thus been adopted, giving priority to reducing the number of sites posing significant risks in terms of the safety of people and property, in addition to the launch of energy audits. A first “pur-chasing” action plan has also been prepared and implemented. Lastly, a diagnosis of the support functions and management processes was carried out and will lead in 2013 to the preparation and implementation of a multiannual strategy for the optimisa-tion of these functions.

Research department Staff expenses Operations and investment

Grand total by destination

Environment and Resources Department 79.41 16.28 95.69

Health Department 22.05 5.60 27.65

Societies Department 22.62 3.37 25.99

Total 124.08 25.25 149.33

expenses of the units (in €m)

Research program Staff expenses Operations and investment


Climate and natural risks 6.16 0.78 6.94

Sustainable management of Southern ecosystems 22.03 3.70 25.73

Continental and coastal waters 23.51 4.93 28.44

Food security in the South 22.78 5.21 27.99

Health security and health policy 22.05 5.60 27.65

Development and globalisation 27.54 5.03 32.57

Total 124.08 25.25 149.33

expenditure on cross-cutting activities (in €m)

Staff expenses Operations and investment


Southern research and training programme 0.76 4.08 4.84

Southern Promotion 0.77 1.22 1.99

Information and Scientific Culture for the South 4.65 1.81 6.46

Geostrategy & Partnership 10.74 3.56 14.30

Scientific coordination 2.76 1.68 4.43

Scientific assessment, ethics 0.31 0.49 0.80

Continuous training 0.21 1.23 1.44

AIRD Agency 0.75 0.90 1.65

FI/IP naval resources 0.11 3.83 3.95

Large-scale scientific facilities - 0.36 0.36

Total 21.06 19.16 40.22

support function expenditure (in €m)

Staff expenses Operations and investment


Social action 0.20 1.49 1.69

Information system 3.11 5.11 8.23

Maintenance - 0.11 0.11

Heavy work - 1.47 1.48

Construction work - 0.04 0.04

Territorial services 9.40 5.46 14.80

Central services 10.93 6.10 17.04

Financial operations - 0.88 0.88

Other general expenses - 3.43 3.43

Total 23.64 24.09 47.70

geographical breakdoWn of expensesin €M

the ird’s total expenses by type

staff unscheduled

operations and investments

scheduled investments

71.37 % (€168.79m)

1.16%(€2.75m)

27.47%(€64.96m)

Metropolitan france

Africa and indian ocean

overseas territories

latin America

Asia

Mediterranean

other countries 0.79

145.41

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Grand total 2012 168.78 68.50 237.25

TOTAL (in eM)

236.50

32.42

7.76

22.19

16.26

11.67

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