Asia and the Pacific annual performance review workshop

Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty

Sunday, 1 March 2009
16.00 – 18.00	Registration of participants
18.00 – 19.00	Official Opening (Moderator: Martina Spisiakova, IFAD) Mr He Changchui, Assistant Director General, FAO, RAP, Thailand Mr Ennoo Suesuwan, Acting President, BAAC, Thailand Mr John Skerritt FTSE, Deputy Chief Executive, ACIAR, Australia Opening remarks by Mr. Thomas Elhaut, Director, IFAD, Italy
19.00 – 21.00	Welcoming reception

Monday, 2 March 2009
8.00 – 9.00	Late Registration of participants
9.00 – 9.15	Workshop overview, expectations and flow Chun Lai, Workshop facilitator
9.15 – 10.30	Reflecting on the achievements in 2008 (Moderator: Chun Lai)
09.20 – 09.35	Follow up on 2007 Workshop and conclusions of the 2008 Annual Performance Review (including views from projects based on the questionnaire), Ron Hartman, CPM, IFAD
09.35 – 10.15	Plenary discussion : Reaction, questions and answers
10.15 – 10.45	Coffee Break
10.45 – 12.30	Experience in direct supervision and areas for improvement
10.45 – 10.50	Plenary Session: Operationalizing direct supervision Moderator: Jebun Nahar, Bangladesh
10.50 – 11.05	Direct supervision and projects – good practices and lessons learned): Deepak Mohanty (India), Bala Ram Adhikari (Nepal) and Houmphan Kosada (Lao PDR)
11.05 – 11.20	Direct supervision and country presence - emerging good practices: Anura Herath (Sri Lanka), Yolando Arban (Philippines), Yinhong Sun (China)
11.20 – 11.35	Key achievements and issues in loan administration (Shankar Kutty, IFAD)
11.35 – 12.30	Plenary discussion on direct supervision
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15.30	Experience in direct supervision and areas for improvement Working session 1 – How can we work better? Relevance, quality and cost-effectiveness
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.30	The role of grants in country programmes: improving linkages between loans and grants in the context of direct supervision (Moderator: Laura Puletti) Open forum with special guests: Mr John Skerritt FTSE (ACIAR), Mr Keith Fahrney (CIAT) and Ms Thelma Paris (IRRI)
17.30 – 19.00	Set up of displays for the Knowledge Market
19:00 – 21:30	Dinner

Tuesday, 3 March 2009
9.00 – 9.10	Recap and preview, Chun Lai, Workshop Facilitator
9.10 – 10.30	Improving knowledge management practices (Facilitators: Knowledge Facilitators’ group) Plenary session: Emerging good practices in KM
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30	Improving knowledge management practices (cont) (Facilitators: Knowledge Facilitators’ group) Closing remarks by Cassandra Waldon, Director of Communications, IFAD
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15.30	Managing the country programme for results (Moderator: Yolando Arban, CPO, Philippines)
14.00 – 14.25	Plenary session: Best practices in managing development for results (Maria Donnat, IFAD) Building country M&E capacity to manage for and report on results (Nigel Brett, IFAD)
14.25 – 14.45	Open forum – questions and comments to panelists
14.45 – 15.00	Plenary session: Audit (Karen Juergens, Office of Audit & Oversight, IFAD)
15:00-15:30	Open forum – questions and comments to panelists
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee Break
16.00 – 18.00	Knowledge event (Moderator: Chun Lai)
	Plenary session:
16:00-16:10	Synthesis of IFAD’s analytical work on food prices (Ganesh Thapa, IFAD)
16.10 – 16.20	FAO Initiative on Soaring Food Prices (Mr Purushottam Mudbhary, Chief of Policy Assistance Branch, FAO/RAP)
16.20 – 17.20	Brainstorming on food security in the context of increasing commodity prices (Creative problem solving facilitation method)
17.20 – 18.20	Information Market on Food Crisis: what is happening in the programmes (projects) and how they are addressing this issue
	Information Market (projects and regional partners)

Wednesday, 4 March 2009
9.00 – 9.10	Recap and preview, Chun Lai, Workshop Facilitator
09.10 – 10.45	Plenary Session - Adaptation to climate change (Moderator: Qaim Shah, CPO, Pakistan)
09.15 – 09.45	Overview of the impact of climate change in Asia and the Pacific (Roshan Cooke, Programme Coordinator, Global Mechanism, Rome) Responses to climate change: adaptation (Alejandro Kilpatrick, Programme Coordinator, Global Mechanism, Rome) Examples of adaptation measures in Asia and the Pacific (Dhrupad Choudhury, Coordinator, Sustainable Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Programme)
09.45 – 10.45	Working session 3: Adaptation to climate change – small table discussion
10.45 – 11.15	Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.30	Sustainability – key challenges in project implementation, Moderator: Djadi Purnomo, Indonesia
11.20- 11.35	*Plenary Session:*
11.35 – 11.50	Lessons learned on project sustainability – joint presentation by Dalai (Mongolia), Mr. Jebun Nahar (Bangladesh) and Mr. Qaim Shah (Pakistan)
	Results of the assessment on sustainability in IFAD-supported projects (Mr. Caldwell, TANGO)
11.50 – 12.30	Open forum – questions and comments to panelists
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15.30	Working Session 4 – Country teams fine tuning country programme AWP&B (Facilitators: CPMs)
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee Break
16.00 – 16.15	Workshop evaluation
16.15 – 16.45	Wrap-up: Reflection from IFAD (Chase Palmeri, IFAD) Comments and suggestions from the floor
16.45 – 17.00	Closing Session (Moderator: Martina Spisiakova, IFAD) Closing remarks by Mr He Changchui, Assistant Director General, FAO, RAP Closing remarks by Mr Thomas Elhaut, Director, IFAD Distribution of workshop certificates and photos

Thursday, 5 March 2009

Field trip organized by the Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives of Thailand (BAAC)

Chonburi Province: Visit of an integrated farm and organic farm (BAAC clients)

Ayuttaya Province: Visit of a Rice Research Centre combined with a visit at the Bangsai Arts and Crafts Centre of H.M. Queen Sirikit which sells products of small and medium enterprises and OTOP (one town, one product) projects supported by BAAC