16 January
Friday

17 January
Saturday

18 January
Sunday

Session 7: Governance Issues – Working Group Recommendations

Session 1

Opening and context setting

• Welcome (Nikita Glazovsky, LEAD CIS Director, and Julia Marton-Lefèvre, LEAD International Executive Director)
• Overview of the inter-cohort meeting and results to be achieved
• LEAD International Executive Director report on LEAD: History activities, future plans, and vision, Julia Marton-Lefèvre
• Questions and answers
• LEAD CIS Director’s report on development of LEAD CIS: History, activities, future plans and vision, Nikita Glazovsky
• Questions and answers
• General discussion

Session 2

Plenary Brainstorming and Working Groups on the future
(cont)

• Plenary Brainstorming: Characteristics of a successful future LEAD CIS programme (indicators generation – 10 min)

• Conversation Café’s working group exercise
• 4 Working groups will be formed, each with a different question:
• 1) The overall objectives of LEAD International and LEAD CIS;
• 2) The relationship between LEAD CIS and the rest of the LEAD Network; (Julia, I think these two questions are not rich enough to have groups work on them for such a long time. They seem administrative to me. I would put all groups on the last two, they are more interesting.)
• 3) Ways of involving LEAD Fellows in LEAD activities;
• 4) Ideas on how to strengthen the LEAD Network in the CIS.

Session 3

LEAD CIS Fellows and Action Projects: Working Groups

• The same 4 Working Groups will reconstitute to consider the following question: What are some specific action projects to be undertaken by LEAD CIS in capacity building and in collective actions designed to make an impact on sustainable development in: Different countries of the CIS; in the entire CIS region; Internationally? (45 min)
• After this discussion, the Working Groups will consolidate their discussions into a 10 minute plenary report.

15:45

16:15

Plenary Reporting and Discussion

• The 4 Working Groups report their discussions to plenary
• After the four reports, the plenary “listens to the center” for common themes, points of convergence and wrap-up by moderators
• Discussion

17:30

18:30

Session 5

Funding and Fundraising Challenges: LEAD International and LEAD CIS

• Opening remarks to plenary discussion of funding and fundraising challenges for LEAD in general and for LEAD CIS in particular (10 mins)
• Prior to the plenary discussion a brief SWOT analysis will be held to identify: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats to successful fundraising for LEAD International and LEAD CIS (20 minutes) Four groups will each look at a separate item for both LI and LEAD CIS – brief plenary reporting (5 mins each group)
• Discussion (40 mins)

Session 6

Governance Issues:
Plenary Discussion

• Plenary discussion of the governance structure of LEAD CIS and LEAD International to best serve the new directions of LEAD.

Session 7

Governance Issues:
Working Group Recommendations

• Buzz Groups exercise: Small groups discuss governance issue and formulate specific recommendations to LEAD CIS and LEAD International and then make a list of their top 5 recommendations,

Session 8

Plenary Reporting of Recommendations

• In plenary, each group will be asked to share their top item with the plenary, then the next highest priority, and so on until all 5 top recommendations have been heard and recorded.
• Open discussion

Session 9

Gap Analysis, Next Steps and Closing Remarks

• This session will start with a brief discussion of gaps: What’s missing, what should happen to strengthen the results of the discussions. (15 min)
• The next steps will be discussed and some key deadlines/dates agreed upon (if needed)
• Closing remarks from LEAD International Executive Director and LEAD CIS Director