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United Nations Cluster Working Group on Early Recovery (CWGER)

Summary

CAPRESE assisted a United Nations working group in carrying out a landmark strategy workshop that brought senior management from 10 UN agencies to work together and plan the future with input from freelance Early Recovery Advisors active in the field.

Client Context

CWGER tableIn 2010, the CWGER, an inter-agency working group led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), wanted to bring together a pool of experts in the field of Early Recovery for a week to learn from the experience of the previous five years (from the Indonesian Tsunami in December 2004 to the Earthquake in Haïti in January 2010) and redesign its approach for the future. Representatives of other agencies and clusters would then explore how to mainstream these ideas throughout their respective UN organisations.

CAPRESE Approach

CWGER imposed the timeframe as consecutive days with 30 participants and requested the use of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® to support the process. Otherwise CAPRESE was given “carte blanche” with regard to programme design. The workshop was structured into 3 stages:

  • Learning from the past
  • Future improvements to focus on the beneficiary
  • Mainstreaming into the UN system
  • Results

    CWGER SGP

    The client developed a set of principles that would guide the decision-making process in the future. These principles were sufficiently generic to be applicable to other agencies and clusters, sufficiently concrete that they could be understood and implemented by anyone, and sufficiently compelling that all stakeholders shared the motivation to build them into their own plans.

    CWGER SGP

    This was perhaps the first time that LSP had been used anywhere for a full five-day workshop and perhaps the first time it had been used to tackle international development and humanitarian issues.

    Key words

    LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®; LSP; strategy; leadership; humanitarian action; development; united nations