Food for thought: summaries of lunchtime seminars (2004-2006)

Abstract

Description: The "Thursday Lunchtime Seminars" held in the Goa Room of the Regional Office for South-East Asia began in June 2004 and are meant to provide an informal forum for staff to share vignettes from their experiences through the nformal presentations. Presenters were both external and internal, with SEARO staff comprising the majority. This informal setting offered SEARO's busy staff an opportunity to participate in to current-issue-related presentations while enjoying lunch. This arrangement saved on work time and helped reap the benefit of morsels of practical wisdom shared in the discussions. Thus, it was a chance to share each other's lessons from real life experiences that have staff appeal across SEARO's several technical units. The informal nature of the forum setting, elicits lively discussion and debate. This internal publication includes presentations from the first two years of the seminars, with short textual synopses or abstracts on each of these presentations and discussion points. The document is accompanied by a CDROM which includes the relevant Power Point presentations made during these seminars.