Workshop objectives

The goal of the Asia and the Pacific annual performance workshop is to enhance the implementation and impact of IFAD-funded development interventions in the region.

The theme for this year’s event is supervision and implementation support.

Workshop participants include:

• Country partners
• Government representatives
• Members of the civil society
• Regional partners
• Cooperating institutions
• IFAD staff

The workshop the opportunity to:

• discuss important design and implementation issues
• new initiatives and thematic areas (such as food prices and climate change)
• build relationships with peers and colleagues
• create networks to share good practices, knowledge and experiences.

Expected outcomes:

• participants will have developed a deeper understanding of important supervision and implementation issues and also about new thematic areas such as food prices and climate change
• IFAD has understood and recorded participant views on common portfolio strengths and weaknesses
• participants will have identified solutions to common problems and formulated recommendations to improve direct supervision and performance for IFAD’s Asia and the Pacific Division portfolio
• participants will have identified and documented good practices in implementation support and supervision and for replication and scaling-up
• participants will have built relationships with peers and other regional partners
• participants will have built the foundation for knowledge sharing networks allowing them to systematically share good practices and rural development knowledge