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Key Messages. Use this workshop as a learning process: What we experienced? What is new? What needs to be changed?. Networking and Partnerships We’re in business for quite a while, giving us a great opportunity to strategize and move forward 1000 years of combined experience !.
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Use this workshop as a learning process: • What we experienced? • What is new? • What needs to be changed?
Networking and Partnerships We’re in business for quite a while, giving us a great opportunity to strategize and move forward 1000 years of combined experience !
Make or Break a Network: • Defining a network (2 billion definitions) • Making most of local expertise • Defined geographic and subject coverage • Strategy & Operational guidelines (legal, defined)
Running and Financing Networks and Managing relationships: • Key functions of secretariat (operational/liaison) • Direction: Competencies and roles • Membership management (incentives/motivation/transparency/communication) • Financing (membership fees/private sector engagement) • Main Challenges (fundraising/meeting expectations/mainstreaming gender) • Future vision (continue to grow)
Communication • Lifeline of networks • Needs to be planned, clear and concrete • Need to consider that tone, volume and facial expressions are hidden
Communication strategies (What works ? What doesn’t? What to do about it?) • Successful communication tools (Tailor to target group - Facebook) • Unsuccessful communication tools (Email – no response/website maintenance) • New communication tools (webinars, virtual online training)
Day 2 reCAP • Knowledge management cycle • Knowledge base – Explicit knowledge • Knowledge adaptation - Explicit and Tacit knowledge • Knowledge transfer – training education advocacy • Implementation, development of new knowledge • Networking connect the whole cycle of knowledge management
DAY 2 RECAP CONT… • What can we do to facilitate the availability of an IWRM knowledge base? • What are key actions for knowledge adaptation and sharing? • Which actions facilitate an active delivery of capacity building to different target groups? • How can ongoing experiences and processes be available in the form of new knowledge? • How do we establish contact and engage in activities with different target groups ???
DAY 2 RECAP CONT… • Facilitation Skills • Facilitator is an active member of the learning process. • How to make a ice-break by Lilliana • line-up exercise, who is lying, stand-up etc. these are very simple and entertaining method that can use as a ice break
DAY 2 RECAP CONT… • Presentation skills by Jacob • Identifying the target group: whom you are addressing, and what methods/ teaching skills and approaches you should use • Content Analysis • State fright: everyone has it to some degree • Questioning and answering • Eye contact • Structuring well • Effective delivery: be active and move, be purposeful, • Sensitivity to the audience, • Handling questions: Make an effective opening: hw to attract the audience, story, music, make a funny remark, repeating or write the board the answers in discussions, Never argue with the audience, Don’t get confused
Powerpoint is to use as an aid to the presenter, should not distractive for the audience, sometimes it useful to pass message graphically for some groups like grassroot levels, • But presenter should be always ready to discuss on the subject without presentation (should be comfortable) • Opportunity Assessment/ Need assessment: • Flow chart what and how to do? • Identifying the target group • Data collection methods • Ex: online platform by Amel, and database that has mapped the stakeholders, ongoing projects, and partners, contexts, and all information, the partners/ stakeholders were asked to fill it.
Comments from Jean, and Sim, Surridge, Data base of mapping the existing knowledge within the network, Hard to keep the data bases updated, and it is important not to keep the ambitious targets • Strategic planning and frame working based on the assessments…. • Planning Short Courses - Kees • Identifying the target group, place and most appropriate dates/events etc.. • Host and Venue • Advantages and disadvantages of internal and external venues/host • Delivery (participation, case studies, lessons, exercise, length, format) • Course content (inter-sectoral, MDG, SDG, Field trips, session outlines)