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Charettes After DMF?

Wow! After your great facilitation initiative, a DMF blueprint for a project (say, a SME cluster, a PPP, a hydroelectric expansion or a Special Economic Zone, etc.) is born. Now what? Doing nothing is not an option. In fact, this will send the DMF looping between the decision makers and the drawing board. How about [...]

Staying on the EDGE! A Woman’s Work is Never Done

Following the launch of the Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) initiative during the fourth High-Level Forum in Busan, South Korea, Shaista Hussain shares her thoughts on improving project design to ensure the collection of gender-disaggregated data.

When Maya Angelou set out to write her classic poem on a woman’s work, she probably did [...]

Visual Facilitators…New Kids on your Block

Have you ever attended conferences that have lots of: (a) boring Powerpoint presenters; (b) brainstorming but too little documentation; or (c) actions but flat and text-heavy post-conference reports? Well, it’s time to bring-in the Visual Facilitator (VF)!

VFs are the new kids on the block who can work closely with the main conference facilitators like [...]

Nepal’s Blended Courses: A Success!

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As the year ended, COSO has successfully piloted two back-to-back Results-focused Project Design and Management (RfPDM) courses in Kathmandu, Nepal. 45 participants from various Government departments and Nepal resident mission attended the training courses.

These courses had many firsts! One, it applied the blended-learning method which enabled [...]

IAF Asia: Best Community Outreach Award

The International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Asia has recently announced a community outreach award as part of their forthcoming The 12th Annual IAF Asia Facilitator Conference with the theme: GEAR up for the future! The conference will be held in Taipei, Taiwan on August 28 to 31, 2009. Instead of having just a series of [...]