ANNEX-iii

							                                                                                                    ANNEX iii
                                                EVALUATION
                                           UN Country Team Retreat
                                             Kalutara, Sri Lanka
                                             10-13 December 2001


How far the objectives of this retreat have been            Not at all      Partly         Mostly        Completely
met:
Overall objective: To Review and promote UN Reform
especially                                                                     2              15              1
     Operationalise UNDAF
     To strengthen UN Teambuilding
Specific objective: Operationalising UNDAF
 To review the UNDAF goals and objectives                                     5              11              2
    particularly in the context of the MDGs
 To       review      the   preparation   towards the                         8              8               1
    implementation of UNDAF
 To prepare a strategy towards anticipating post-                             9              6               3
    conflict challenges and opportunities for the UN
    system
 To look at ways to operationalise the Poverty                  7             5              5
    reduction Framework within UNDAF
 Identify ways to upscale cooperation in the area of                          6              10              2
    information-sharing between agencies together with
    public information and advocacy strategy
 Prepare the RC Work Plan for 2002                                            9              9               1
 Plan for the production of the RC Annual Report for
    2001, an updated CCA and UNDAF/MDGs Reviews                                7              5               4


Learning Validation for Teambuilding Process
Overall objective: To work more effectively as a team                         6               11              2
Specific objective: To identify their own strengths and                       6               11              2
weaknesses as a member of a team
 To identify their team’s strengths and weaknesses             1             8               9               1
 To identify how cultural similarities and differences
   add value to a team                                                        8               8               3


Learning Evaluation Questionnaire
1. Which parts of the retreat did you find the a) Conflict resolution (3), MGDs, Pre-peace & post-conflict planning
most useful and why?                           (9), Team-building (3), peace building (3), opportunity to meet other
                                               players
                                               b) UNDAF (2), Post-conflict (2), teambuilding (3), Work planning
                                               (2), self perception team role profile, opportunity to come up to speed
                                               up on isues, opportunity to get to know other CT members better, on
                                               the subject and identification of areas for collaborative planning,
                                               informal discussions during breaks and dinner
Learning Evaluation Questionnaire – cont’d…
1. Which parts of the retreat did you find the c) Planning for AR 2001 & WP 2002 (3), organisation & conduct of
most useful and why? – cont’d…                 the workshop, MDGs (2), chance to give rise to concerns,
                                               identification of opportunities for collaboration UNDAF
                                               d)Team building exercises

2. What changes would you make to the           More output oriented, Too many topics, More time for relaxation,
retreat and why?                                relationship building, next retreat should be in November, Treat more
                                                thoroughly the operationalisation of UNDAF, Change the way team
                                                work session was presented, Less on team building and more on RC
                                                Annual report, work plans, and post-conflict planning, less on team
                                                training and more on substantive issues related to UNDAF, Cut down
                                                some presentations & better time management, keep to time, do not
                                                use so many acronyms, de-emphasize & make presentations shorter,
                                                emphasize on drawing out experience & ideas more explicitly, more
                                                time for planning for WP 2002, more time for collaborative planning,
                                                give more time to achieve concrete results, prepare more detailed
                                                plans, limit group work to time constraints

3. What topics/areas, if any, would you add     Planning/Joint programmes, MDGs (2), post-conflict/peace building
or give more time to?                           (3), lessons learned from UNRC WP 2001, More on team-building
                                                activities, RC WP 2002 (3), More time for action planning, ore time
                                                to Work planning, functional & practical problems, agency co-
                                                ordination, more emphasis on programmatic areas and collaborative
                                                areas, Time allocation of topics over two and half days pretty good
                                                and balanced
4. How relevant was the retreat to your work?                                 Relevant: 9     Very Relevant: 10
5. Overall, how worthwhile was it to you to                                   Worthwhile: 8 Very Worthwhile: 11
attend to the retreat?
6. Circle up to three words below that best     Stimulating (7), thought-provoking (5), over-ambitious (4), useful (6),
sum up your overall opinion of this learning    interesting (8), comprehensive, exhausting, innovative, practical (3),
experience:                                     rushed (4), basic, valuable (3), challenging (2), theoretical, revealing
                                                (2), enjoyable (2), valuable, inspiring (2),
7. Any other comments:                          Too many subjects (2), great-to-be-together, timely, rewarding,
                                                excellent decision to have external facilitation and resource person,
                                                Workshop gave a better sense of belonging to the UNCT, Very bad
                                                management of time, prioritize better subjects/sessions within the day
                                                (2), good idea to extend participation to other staff, Thanks to the
                                                organisers; great job, compress presentations, over-programmed,
                                                agenda too ambitious as a result we were unable to achieve
                                                satisfactory results in any area, particularly on post-conflict/peace and
                                                2002 work plan, excellent arrangements especially the inputs from
                                                Turin Staff College & Team builder, useful way for my induction into
                                                the UN Sri Lankan Team, well organised and great facilitators, good
                                                UN Team here make work easier




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