1.
Introduction and Purpose of the Workshop
With the purpose of identifying major
components of the strategic cum operational plan to help
promote and develop SCAEF and its member firms nationally and
internationally through participatory and collaborative
approach, a one day Workshop on Capacity Building of
Consulting Industry in Nepal was organized jointly by the
SCAEF and Construction Industry Training Center (CITC) on
19th June 2006 in hotel Annapurna, Kathmandu. The workshop
cost was made available by Construction Industry Development
Implementation Committee.
The outcome of the workshop was to prepare SCAEF document
(Strategic cum Operational Plan) for organizational
development of SCAEF and consulting member firms.
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2. Workshop
Part
The workshop was conducted in participatory and friendly
environment. The detail process of the workshop was as
follows.
Preparation:
Workshop preparation with detailed activities with SCAEF executives and representation of non-SCAEF firms.
One day workshop organized on 19th June, 2006 from 8am to 6pm.
The workshop started with opening session, the chief guest of the session was Mr. Madan Gopal Makhu, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Physical Planning and Works.
The president of SCAEF, Mr. K Kunwar presented present status of consulting industry in Nepal/SCAEF
Global/Regional: Present and Future Scenario for consulting industry was presented by Mr. B L Naychwon, Past President of SCAEF.
A brief presentation on how to prepare the strategic document and derive the future direction/development of Nepalese consulting industry and SCAEF’s Development Vision for Nepal was presented and facilitated by Mr. Lal Krishna K.C.
Second Part of the
Workshop:
The second part of the workshop was conducted in a
participatory approach. All the members present were
encouraged to take part actively in identifying the issues
and practical solution of organizational requirements. The
details activities were as follow;
Plenary Discussion/ Brainstorming Session 1
Propose classified areas/divisions for managing issues and get agreement/ consensus on it
Distribute issue card with cause and effect
Collect the issues
Get agreement/ consensus on collected issues following the predefined areas
Group Works in 2 Groups / Brainstorming Session 2
Discuss in each issues
Identify solution for the issue
Identify practicality of the solution
Convert issue and its solution into program/package
Write action plan for each program
Closing session
Suggestion for the name of document and voting on it
Debrief the workshop
Concluding remarks
3. Workshop
Conclusion and Documentation Part
The group discussion on selected issues was
conducted efficiently. It was done in two groups. The
participants enthusiastically participated in the group
discussions and used the opportunity to get together and
discuss in identifying issue-wise problems (policy and legal,
business opportunity, admin and management, human resources
development/capacity building, public relation and
communication, institutional development, and risks &
liabilities) and their probable solution and strategies to
develop SCAEF and its future plan to support consultancy
industry development in as a whole.
SCAEF’s members’ ideas and suggestions, as well as the
outcomes of the discussion will be compiled, analyzed and
reported in detail in the document format. The tentative
content of the document would be background context, SWOT
Analysis, strategic elements – SCAEF’s development vision,
mission, goal, objective, strategy, program/activities, and
outcome followed by operational cum implementation plan with
tentative resources requirement; mainly organization, time
and cost line, including monitoring and evaluation section.