During the third stage of its training-of-trainers program, CIPE Regional Office has held local workshops, in each of the four countries that are represented by the participants in the program: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Serbia.
The local workshops are meant to allow the participants to make the transition from being practitioners in a certain sector to being able to cross the boundaries of their own field and facilitate sessions on a variety of business association management topics, for various sectors. Moreover, the seminars seek to address the needs of local business support organizations.
A workshop was held in Chisinau, Moldova on October 12, 2010, and was organized in cooperation with CIPE’s Moldovan partner, the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives (IDSI). Three Moldovan trainers, who have successfully completed the previous two stages of the program, gave presentations and engaged the audience in exercises and vivid discussions on strategic planning, structure and governance, and the Moldovan National Business Agenda process.
Each presenter was invited to choose a business association management topic beforehand and to deliver a presentation in front of their guests. The audience included the presenters’ peers, as well as guests from business associations, chambers of commerce and employers’ organizations from Chisinau and other regions . CIPE Regional Office Program Director Camelia Bulat took part in the workshop as an observer. She has also provided customized feedback with regards to each presentation and assisted each participant with the preparation of their materials and presentations.
The presenters and the titles of the presentations that they have delivered are as follows:
• Veronica Russu-Marin, Consultant, Institute for Development and Social Initiatives - Strategic Planning;
• Eugenia Ganea, Program Coordinator, National Federation of Employers in Food Industry and Agriculture - Structure and Governance;
• Tatiana Lariushin, Senior Expert, Institute for Development and Social Initiatives – The National Business Agenda in Moldova
All presentations and the corresponding materials were offered in Romanian. After each presentation, time was allotted to discussions between the participants. Finally, the participants were given the opportunity to evaluate each of the six presenters by filling out evaluation forms. The participants’ feedback is useful for two reasons: it helps the presenters improve their presentation skills and it gives CIPE a clearer idea of the presenters’ progress.
