Thanks HO and Paul! Good advice, and you have confirmed my suspicion that I should leave out the term "open space", at least in the proposal.
Also good to know that some open space has penetrated the UN behemoth :) Tricia Chirumbole US: +1-571-232-0942 Skype: tricia.chirumbole On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:01 PM, paul levy <p...@cats3000.net> wrote: > Trish > > I did work some years back with the United Nations Development Programme > and also facilitated an open space funded by NATO. > > They'll hover on the day at the edges and may try to insert three hours of > opening thank you speeches. Battle those away, smile and ignore the > hoverers and get to work with the people who are in the room. > > Best > > Paul > > > On Friday, 1 November 2013, Tricia Chirumbole wrote: > >> Hi all! >> >> I am writing a proposal to the UN for an evaluation of a Gender-based >> violence Information Management System (IMS) that is in use in >> conflict/post-conflict areas - I am writing it on behalf of the market >> research and strategy firm that I do work for, Junicon. >> >> As I develop the methodology, it occurred to me that it could be valuable >> to slip in an Open Space at the beginning of each of the country field >> missions (5-7 days, 3 countries, 2-4 stakeholder organizations in each >> country, but few reps from each stakeholder org involved with the IMS). >> >> Based on my experience, there will be concern with getting interested >> parties in the room at the same, as well as concern with any engagement >> that takes more than 1.5 hours...those issues aside, does anyone know of >> any UN use of Open Space, or related experiences that may be appealing to a >> body such as the UN >> >> Thank you!!! >> >> Tricia Chirumbole >> Open Space Facilitator, Certified Scrum Master >> Mojo Collaborative >> www.mojocollaborative.com >> >> 571-232-0942 >> skype: tricia.chirumbole >> twitter: @themojozone >> > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > >
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