Eastern Africa Coastal Forest Programme: Regional Workshop ...

• Workshop ended with very productive output.
12 • Being part of a well-organised and structured
workshop that led directly to a useful result
• Rapid feedback in printed form of deliberations
(despite electricity problems!)
13 • The enabling working environment created by hotel
staff and participants
14 • The group work was very good
• All the people were very interested and worked very
hard
• Entirely personal and nobody’s fault, but I was unable to be present
throughout the workshop
• Probably as a result of the above, I was a bit taken by surprise occasionally,
eg in terms of output problems from Kenya group on Day 3.
• Overwork – work after 5pm brought low productivity as there was no more
thinking.
• Low pocket money to support personal expenses
• Facilitation was often not appropriate – bad language and communication
• The social part was very poor
• The budget for pocket money on life standard cost in Kenya was very low
• The programme should be organised before the meeting and circulated for
all countries
15 • Time schedule to do the tasks
• Too much work for time available.
16 • I liked the process from vision-setting to activities and
action plans. Simple but not simplistic.
• It would have been highly beneficial to have linked root causes of forest loss
and the activities – time was too short!
17 • Mozambique participation
• Power
• Collegial atmosphere
• Did not bring adequate GIS data
• Decent progress made
• Should have asked people to bring reports
• Short-cut ecoregional planning
• Food
• No good vegetation maps on computer to do proper analysis
18 • Tz working group worked well together, ie vital to
have representation from government, NGOs, INGOs.
• Lack of UNEP/GEF participation
• Situational analysis did not really capture the key issues
• We did not link them very well either
• Poverty was only lightly touched upon
• We should have been informed before the workshop on materials to bring –
eg we could have updated maps much more thoroughly than we did – the Tz
map has not really improved since 1993!!
19 • Facilitator was excellent
• Venue was good
20 • The workshop was fine. • Need to inform participants in good time to carry information of specific
nature.
21 • Amanda’s facilitation • Power failure
• Unavailability of room telephone facility
• A failure by the group to recognise mangroves as coastal forests. This need
refinement.
Eastern African Coastal Forests - 122 - Workshop Report, Nairobi February 4-7 2002