Applied Experience with Results Based Management WORKSHOP PROGRAMME 7 & 8 February 2012 – Clarion Tyholmen Hotel, Arendal Day 1 – Tuesday, 7 February 09.00 – 09.30 Opening & welcome remarks – Peter Prokosch, Managing Director, GRID-Arendal & Einar Telnes, Director, Dept. for Climate, Environment & Natural Resources, Norad 09.30 – 09.45 Tour de table 09.45 – 10.30 Results based management in multilateral organizations – Thomas Dam, Senior Advisor, Department for Quality Assurance, Norad 10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break 10.45 – 11.45 RbM in UNEP: Components, experience and challenges – Sheila Aggarwal-Khan, Chief, Quality Assurance Section Status of RbM in GRID-Arendal – Valentin Yemelin, Head of Capacity Building & Assessments 11.45 – 12.30 Panel discussion: Applied experience with RbM – Moderated by Marion Cheatle • Kick off question: What are the prerequisites for mainstreaming RbM (e.g institutional, organisational, process-related)? • Participants: UNEP – Desta Mebratu, Deputy Regional Director, Regional Office for Africa; Monika MacDevette, Chief, Capacity Development Branch, DEWA (tbc); Jan Beltam, Task Manager POPs & Chemicals Management, DTIE/GEF Operations (tbc); Norad – Einar Telnes; GRID-Arendal – Olav Orheim, Chairman of the Board, and Clever Mafuta, Africa Programme Co-ordinator 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 14.30 Plenary discussion: Working with stakeholders to achieve results – Opening remarks by Kathrine Ivsett Johnsen, Senior Expert on Indigenous & Community Issues, GRIDArendal 14.30 – 15.30 A Monitoring & Evaluation Framework for GA – Thor-Jürgen Greve Løberg, Head of Communications, GRID-Arendal • The importance of indicators in measuring implementation and results (exercise) 15.30 – 16.00 Other issues 16.00 Wrap-up comments – Mette Møglestue, Senior Advisor, Climate, Environment & Natural Resources, Norad 18.30 Dinner at Thon Hotel Applied Experience with Results Based Management WORKSHOP PROGRAMME 7 & 8 February 2012 – Clarion Tyholmen Hotel, Arendal Day 2 – Wednesday, 8 February 09.00 – 09.30 Results Chains: An introduction – Erik Aakre, Assistant Director, Department for Quality Assurance, Norad 09.30 – 10.30 Parallel working groups: Designing results chains at the level of corporate strategies, programmes, and projects – Facilitated by Thomas Dam & Erik Aakre, Norad • Hands-on exercise 10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break 10.45 – 12.30 Parallel working groups: Continues 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 14.30 Presentation of results chains produced by the participants & reflections – Facilitated by Thomas Dam & Erik Aakre, Norad 14.30 – 15.30 Completion phase and reporting in the RbM programme cycle – Thomas Dam and Erik Aakre, Norad 15.30 – 16.30 Plenary discussion: Strengthening collaboration between UNEP & GRID-Arendal through RbM – Facilitated by Marion Cheatle 16.30 – 17.00 Wrap up and workshop closure – Peter Prokosch and Olav Orheim