The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is a non-profit-making and non-governmental organization that works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality science and capacity-building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development. ILRI assisted the AU-IBAR to develop its natural resources management plan, the Director of AU-IBAR serves on the ILRI Board of Trustees and a number of collaborative projects have been identified and are being jointly implemented in the field of avian influenza, PPR, climate change and Animal genetic resources.