Twenty participants from five relatively new IAEA Member States, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, have attended an IAEA workshop in the Marshall Islands. The workshop focused on the design of IAEA technical cooperation (TC) projects, and took place from 15 to 19 August 2016. It will be Vanuatu’s first time to participate in the IAEA’s technical cooperation programme.
The workshop aimed to familiarize the participants, who will be in charge of planning and managing IAEA technical cooperation (TC) projects in their countries, with the technical cooperation programme, and its tools and mechanisms for programme management. Speaking at the workshop Mr Oscar Acuna, Section Head in the IAEA’s Division for Asia and the Pacific, said “The training will help ensure that the proposed project designs meet the defined quality criteria of the IAEA TC projects and, once approved and implemented, contribute to the set objectives and impact”.
All participants received hands-on training in designing TC projects, using the Logical Framework Approach (LFA) – the project management tool used by the IAEA. The training included practical and interactive group sessions. Participants were guided to think through and analyse the logic of a project in a systematic and structured way, by conducting a detailed situation analysis, a problem analysis and a stakeholder analysis, and to set objectives and determine project scope and boundaries. Furthermore, the workshop attendees were introduced to the TC quality criteria, and to the monitoring and reporting requirements for TC projects.