The Training of Facilitators (TOF) for Results-focused Project Design and Management for the Pacific Islands (Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa, and Timor Leste) will be held from 6-15 October 2009 at the Conference Room of the Iririki Hotel Island Resort (http://www.iririki.com/), Port Vila, Vanuatu. This is the sixth in the series of seven planned for [...]

The Training of Facilitators (TOF) scheduled from 8-16 September at the Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, aims at strengthening the facilitation skills in participatory and results-focused project design and management. It brings together participants from government planning agencies in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. The team of facilitators comprise Andrea Iffland from ADB headquarters, Pet Misa from the Philippines, [...]

The Project Performance Management Unit (PPMS)  of the Central Operations and Services Office(COSO) has mounted a TOF wall (now called The ToF Wall) in the seventh floor SouthWest Wing of the COSO area of the ADB building. As its first installment, the Wall shows six panels including one measuring 33 by 60 inches that contains photos [...]

A participatory workshop’s first day is usually reserved for Learning More from Your Participants. Facilitators use icebreakers to achieve this. Icebreakers are techniques used to reduce tension and anxiety, make everyone comfortable to accept and share new information, and also stimulate contribution and commitment to the workshop’s objectives.

Meet Jagdeep Singh, a Superintending Engineer of the Executive Director ( Transmission & Planning-Project Monitoring Unit)  Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh India . He looks after the procurement of electrical outdoor substation equipment of up to 400 KV class via a project, mainly financed by ADB. He has been with this [...]