A training workshop in Results-focused Project Design and Management has been delivered for 27 Vietnamese participants 
from various provinces and various government oversight and executing agencies. The training was fronted by a 3-man team of facilitators, namely Do Minh Hoai, Hong Anh Chu, and Hong Anh Nguyen, all graduates of the PPMS Training of Facilitators in various occasions: Do Minh Hoai (TOF Hue 2009), Hong Anh Chu (TOF Hua Hin 2007), Hong Anh Nguyen (TOF Luang Prabang, 2009).
The participants were trained in different tools used in the conduct of participatory planning and management, including stakeholders analysis, problem and objectives tree analysis, and the results chain. The active participation by the trainees showed their keen interest to truly learn and practically apply the processes in their respective projects.
The workshop successfully closes today with 25 Vietnamese public servants earning not just certificates but more importantly, valuable knowledge and skills they can use to ensure good project design and ultimately project success.
The Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank recently released a publication entitled “The Black Box of Governmental Learning, The Learning Spiral-A Concept to Organize Learning in Governments”. The publication aims to address the problem on how best to educate the government with lessons from the past.
Government is not known to be the best learner from past lessons and as a result, resources are wasted, services are undelivered, and most of all, the citizens, especially the poor, are denied of social, legal and economic protection. It is for this reason that the need to educate the government of these lessons has become more crucial than ever. WB identifies the reason why government seems to never ever learn, and this is said to be because learning in government settings is hard to execute and conceptualize, and hence, the term “black box”.
This book introduces a theory-based concept that has been applied successfully over the past decade in a number of conferences and events comprising civil servants and staff of government all over the world.
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Alas, after months of waiting and the uncertainty of it happening at all this year, a 5-day training on Results-focused Project Design and Management is finally scheduled on 31 May – 4 June in the Philippines. The training takes us down south to the island of Cebu and will be offered to executing agencies, implementing agencies and oversight agencies of the Philippine government. Continue reading First Results-Focused Project Design and Management Training in 2010 Scheduled in June
Systemic change is an interesting metaphor. It shows how a small change can trigger a series of other small ones that eventually ends with a big bang. It is not only difficult, it is a really complex process. Where do you begin? In the end going to start. Or the other way around? How will you get into the big change? Use small and incremental (almost unrecognizable) changes first and then lead to the big ones. How do you select those small changes? Which is the smallest change that can trigger the big one? What would connect one small change to the rest? What connectors will you use? What are the triggers and receptors for those connectors? Continue reading Visualizing Systemic Change
from various provinces and various government oversight and executing agencies. The training was fronted by a 3-man team of facilitators, namely Do Minh Hoai, Hong Anh Chu, and Hong Anh Nguyen, all graduates of the PPMS Training of Facilitators in various occasions: Do Minh Hoai (TOF Hue 2009), Hong Anh Chu (TOF Hua Hin 2007), Hong Anh Nguyen (TOF Luang Prabang, 2009).
