Date/          Time

Session – Topic

July 20, 2003

15.00 - 16.00

16.00 - 16.30

16.30 -  17.00

 17.00 - 18.30 

18.30 – 20.00

20.00

Inaugural Session

- Arrival of Participants & Registration

- Tea Break

- Inauguration

- Welcome Address by MDPI Secretary

- Introduction to CBSIA Project & SIA Training by MDPI Secretary

- Introduction to SIA by Dr. Liu and Dr. Gamage

           - What & Why of SIA       

           - Concepts & Definitions applied in SIA 

          - Principles and Aims, SIA Guidelines

Session I - Why Impact Assessment?

- Brain Storming Session:

  Expectations of the participants and self-assessment on current      

  practices at institutional level by participants

- End of day one sessions

- Dinner

July 21, 2003

     08.30 – 10.30

   10:30 – 10:45

10:45 – 11.30

11:30 – 13:00

13.00 – 14.00

Session II – Planning & Organising of SIA

 SIA Issues by Dr. Liu and Dr. Gamage

- Approaches of SIA and SIA Design

- Planning a SIA

- How to organise resources for a SIA

- Tea Break

Impacts of Public Policies and Programmes on the Poor in Sri Lanka

by Dr. R.M.K. Rathnayake, Additional Secretary of Finance

Discussion on how to design a SIA

- Lunch

  14.00 – 15.30

 15.30 – 15:45

 15:45 – 17.30

 17.30 – 18.00

20.00

Session III – SIA Methods I by Dr. Liu and Dr. Gamage

- Selected methods of SIA: Brainstorming, Desk study, Interviewing

-Tea Break 

-Selected methods of SIA: Questionnaire surveys, meetings, workshops, focused groups & expert opinion

- Brainstorming on what information to collect, how to collect, and special issues

Dinner

July 22, 2003

    08.30 – 9:15

     9:20 - 10.30

10:30 – 10:45

10.45 – 11.50

 11.50 – 13.00

  13.00 – 14.00

 14.00 – 15.30

 15.30 – 15.45

 15.45 – 17.30

20.00

Session IV – SIA Methods II – Techniques used in Impact Assessment 

Experience of Public Sector Large Scale Development Programs: Who Benefited and Who Did Not – by Professor Hettige, University of Colombo

System analysis, network analysis, Delphi technique, & value tree analysis

Tea Break

- Stakeholder analysis, modelling & SWOT analysis

- Trend analysis, cognitive mapping & LFA    

- Lunch

Session V – Discussion on how to do forecast

- Estimates and predictions

- Interpretation and Evaluations

-Tea Break

- Brainstorming on interpreting and evaluating results

- What to select among many tools

Dinner

July 23, 2003

    08.30 – 10.30

 10.30 -  10.45

10.45 – 13.00

13.00 – 14.00

 14.00 – 14.45

14.45 – 15.00

15.00 – 16.15

 16.15 – 18.30

20.00

Session VI – Use of Techniques (cont.)

- Mitigation/Impact Management plans

- Tea Break

Session VII – Integration & Institutionalisation

- Integrating SIA with planning & policy making

- Integrating with Management & other assessments

- Practical issues on integration from Sri Lanka (Group)

- Lunch

Impacts of Health and Nutritional Policies and Programmes

by Dr. H. WiJemanne, Program Officer, Unicef

Tea Break

- Institutionalisation: the ethics, law, participation & empowerment

- Institutionalisation: the educational & training systems

- Regional planning and NGOs

- Dinner

July 24, 2003

     08.30 – 10.30

 10.30 – 10.45

   10.45 – 11.30

  11.30 – 14.00

Session VIII – Formulation of Indicators 

- Group Work

      - No.1 - How to integrate SIA into policy-making in Sri Lanka

      - No.2 - How to institutionalise SIA into management structure 

-Tea Break

Millennium Development Goals by Dr. A Kasthuriarachche

Group Discussion on indicators and how to institutionalise SIA in Sri Lanka

- End of Sessions and Training