Facilitating a Multi-Stakeholder Process
A survival kit for facilitators
Ewen Le Borgne
EAU4Food LPA-CoP facilitation training workshop
ILRI Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
13-15 August 2012

1. Run meetings, because…
Meetings are only the process’s emerged part
But they are
crucial moments
nonetheless
And facilitating
processes echoes
facilitating meetings
Credits: La Sirena …at a deeper level

2. Meet, greet, mingle and build…
The only guarantee of engagement, action,
delivery, impact, fun and a whole lot more
Credits: Dana Jarvis

3. Manage agendas and expectations
Listen
Know your partners’ agenda
Understand them,
their perspective
Go for the
Draw them into it greater good!
Credits: Open Source Way
Manage expectations… relentlessly

4. Connect everyone, empower champions
Never lose your vision Reward champions
with more action
Co-create
an Let the collective
inspiring agenda evolve
agenda
Draw upon and
integrate their
Credits: Stephen Broadbent / Yohan 1960
agenda

5. Smoothe tensions over…
Know when to solve …And when to let
conflicts… them burst out
Sense (‘smell’) the tensions
Credits: Rishi S
Conflict prevention is always better

6. Document the process…
Meetings are listen, see, smell
Observe, only the process’s emerged part
Reflect
But they are
Learn
crucial moments
nonetheless
Adjust, react,
anticipateAnd facilitating
processes echoes
Journal Capture
facilitating meetings
Share
Credits: Choconancy
…at a deeper level

7. Find support…
Manage your own information needs and learning
Consult your peers to find solutions
Ask for help!
Delegate activities to your LPA/CoP members
Credits: Rob with TwobS

More information
http://www.eau4food.info
e.leborgne@cgiar.org
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