Concept PaperCapacityBuildingforRoundtablesVer

• Title: Concept Paper Capacity Building for Roundtables
• Date: 11/30/2006
• IBCC - Doc Type: Program Planning, Budget & Contracts

Concept Paper for Roundtable Cap a city Building
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Approach to the capacity building
. This proposal is founded on the following
approaches:

1. The capacity building assistance for Roundtable s is encourage d but not mandated;
Roundtable s have control.
The c apacity

2. The capacity building process will be co - designed or approved by all key
b uilding effort
should not in any participating entities.
way infringe

3. Capacity building efforts will not in any lessen the power and authority of the
upon the power
Roundtable s or Roundtable Chairs t o direct their own actions.
and authority of

4. Capacity building will begin in a small group of Roundtable s (for example, two
Roundtable s of
or three Roundtable s) as a pilot initiative. If participatory evaluations completed
their C hairs.
by Roundtable members demonstrate a benefit from the process, th e approach
could be expanded to other Roundtable s that wish this assistance.

5. By working in the context of actual Roundtable work tasks, time is not spent on
abstract training. The capacity building, to the greatest extent feasible, will occur
in the contex t of the work that the Roundtable has already undertaken and has
planned to complete.

6. The pilot program will be evaluated and successes and challenges/lessons shared
with other Roundtable s. Roundtable members, DNR and CDM could evaluate the
process and doc ument the results of the pilots.
Using two or

Selection of two or three Roundtable s for the pilot initiative .
three Roundtable

This Concept Paper envisions selecting and then asking two or three Roundtables to
to test the

pilot this capacity building effort. If pilots are successful, other Round tables may
capacity building

decide to participate also.
effort can: (1)

avoid waste so

DNR can
T here are several considerations in selecting the Roundtable s for the pilot program.

determine
These could include selection of a specific Roun d table because :

whether to
(a) A Roundtable that is approaching a complex decision;

replicate it; and
(b) A R oundtable that is experiencing conflict that impedes productive work;
(2) improve the

(c) T wo Roundtable s that are moving toward greater need for collaboration between
process through

them ; or,
participant

(d) A Roundtable seems highly motivated to gain these skills.
evaluation .

Other options
. Although this C o ncept P aper suggests using a pilot approach (using

two or three Roundtable s to test the process), there are other approaches that could be

used or combined, as follows:

A w orkshop of all Roundtable members on the concepts – a training workshop .

?

A workshop for Roundtable Chairs.

?

Offering capacity building to all Roundtables rather than using a pilot process.

?

Monitoring Roundtable member satisfaction.
One approach to participatory

evaluation would be to place monthly or bimonthly on - line surveys that Roundtab le

members could take to evaluate the capacity building services. These could be short

(5 minutes or less) questionnaire on an IBCC website.

Implementation steps and requirements .
The approach to this Concept could be in

the follow ing sequence :

1. Test the Co ncept within DNR.

2. Test the Concept within key personnel at CDM and CDR.