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Top-level Regional
Seminar
28 November
– 1 December 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Twenty nine top managers from 10 countries in
Asia – Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia,
Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines participated.
This group included the Adviser on Population and Development
from UNFPA CST for South and West Asia.
The participants, at the end of the seminar, identified a
key RH area they wished to address and outlined the approach
from an action plan. (This approach was further developed
by the participants at the Middle Level Regional Workshop.)
Major themes
1. Population
development linkages addressing quality of life through
the MDG and ICPD goals.
2. Leadership
roles and competencies in terms of creating shared vision,
evidence-based actions for addressing vision-reality
gaps; inspiring, empowering, coaching, and mentoring;
and alliance building and networking.
3. Addressing
the following special RH challenges focusing on the
poor and underserved:
- Access and quality of RH services
- Unmet needs for family planning
- Adolescent reproductive health
- Linked response of RH and HIV/AIDS
4. Addressing
key barriers (of resources - financial, human and institutional
- and political commitment and policy framework) for
implementation of ICPD-POA.
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Emerging Key Leadership Concerns from Action Plans
1. Sharing Vision and Aligning
Values
- gap between policy
makers and programme heads in understanding and appreciating
RH in-country situation.
2.
Resource Mobilisation
- shortfall in resources (financial and human).
3.
Capacity Building
- challenge of building capacities of existing resources
and facilities.
Middle-level Regional
Workshop
5-16
December 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Twenty-seven participants from nine countries participated
in two weeks of advanced training held to strengthen SLD competencies
and exposure to best practices to achieve desired results
in RH and HIV/AIDS. Among them were programme officers from
UNFPA country offices in India and Myanmar.
The training for middle-level participants
put more emphasis on management, keeping in view the role
demanded of them. (The top-level regional seminar had placed
more emphasis on leadership.) The participants further operationalized
the action plans developed by the participants of the top-level
seminar which had preceded this workshop.
Implementation of the action plan for the next duration of
nine months will be done by the country-level SLD team comprising
top-and middle-level participants. ICOMP will provide the
technical assistance to accelerate the process. Impact of
the interventions will then be assessed accordingly.
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Workshop
Structure
1. Leadership:
Leadership competencies, creating a shared vision,
inspiring and empowering people, setting stretch goals.
2.
Programme management:
Strategic Management, Resource Mobilization:
Concepts and Practices in the Field, Results-Based Management:
Concepts and Practices from the Field, Geographic Information
System (GIS), Management Information System (MIS) in
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Costing, Quality
of Care and Services, Managing People
3.
Exposure to best practices:
Discussion of best practices in key RH and HIV/AIDS
areas, leadership and management requirements for their
successful adaptation in the local context.
4.
Developing a plan of action to improve performance:
The participants would prepare an action plan
to improve performance in the RH area based on the action
plans developed by the top-level seminar participants.
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Strengthening
Building
Promoting
Policy Dialogue
