Managing sector/cluster meetings represents an important and time-consuming task for the WASH Coordination Platform. Meetings are just one decision making tool among others, and a focus should be made on pre-meeting preparation and post-meeting follow-up. Meeting duration should be kept minimal (1h max), with a clear agenda and action points follow-up systems. Excepted during the first stage of an emergency, meetings should not be used as information sharing forum: information can be circulated before or after. Meetings might also be the scene of conflict among partners, that the WCC must prevent or deescalate. Templates to be used for meeting management are provided in this chapterpage, as well as tips to organize meetings, and tools for other related purposes (consensus building, influencing). |