Eastern Africa Coastal Forest Programme: Regional Workshop ...

ANNEX O: WORKSHOP EVALUATION RESULTS
Most satisfying aspects of the workshop: Most frustrating aspects of the workshop: Other comments
1 • Well-facilitated
• Limited interaction with regional team, therefore limited sharing of ideas in
• Good group
workshop form.
• Focussed plan, once here
• More information before the workshop.
• Swimming pool
• Limited time.
• Experience of difference between Ecoregional
Planning and Programme Planning
• Need to finalise who is to do what after the workshop.
2 I personally learned a lot more about coastal forests I felt very deeply that I was not doing the work of the quality that I wanted to do,
due to the pressure of time and the fact that I did not have all my reference
materials here. This was compounded by the fact that there was very little time to
interact with other countries’ delegations. My major frustration was that I was not
sent the task list for the workshop two months ago, so I could come well
prepared.
3 Workshop has been orderly done by facilitator. Food was only quite OK.
4 Commitment and seriousness of participants. Power failures.
5 • Letter of invitation should have instructed us what useful information was
needed for the workshop.
• The timetable for the workshop was terrible to say the least. There was no
time for relaxation, leave alone time for shopping. When the timetable
becomes too tight, the workshop turns out to be boring, with few ideas
6 I am happy that I attended the workshop because I learnt a
great deal about coastal forests in my country and the
region. Its my earnest anticipation that the process remains
active and progresses.
7 In general, the ability to network with other organisations
in coastal forests, to broaden my vision of CF conservation
in other countries, to sit together and to think about
solutions to CF conservation problems.
coming up in participants minds.
However, the discussion on benefits from coastal forests and how to share them
seems to have been given a very low profile, although an important issue as far as
conservation of forests is concerned.
It would have been helpful to have one facilitator allocated to each country
working group for steering. This may have averted the insufficient plan submitted
by Kenya team.
8 Good facilitation. Lack of higher representation eg government Forestry Department input (from
the Kenya perspective).
9 • Making contacts with people and organisations
involved in forest conservation in other countries
• Maps
bring information.
10 • Clear achievements of the workshop; objectives and
expectations of CF
• Members very co-operative and helpful
11 • Workshop was well-organised
• Workshop had competent and skilled personnel
• Electricity
• Clarification prior to the workshop on workshop objectives and the need to
Nothing
The workshop was demanding of a number of information and data, which in
some part were not properly accommodated.
I still have some large areas of
confusion about how this eco-regional
thing will work. I hope Geza’s soonto-occur
visit will clean this up. One
wants to avoid a proliferation of nonfunctional
committees.
It might be more productive not to
ignore the least prioritised issues,
perhaps a separate meeting should be
organised to address these issues soon
– before they become major threats.
Workshop synthesis, report and
contact list would be very valuable for
my work.
Eastern African Coastal Forests - 121 - Workshop Report, Nairobi February 4-7 2002