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The objectives discussed and accepted at the beginning of the workshop were:
 | to review the parthenium problem; |
| to define the management/control options now available; and |
| to make recommendations on policy, training, research and implementation of management/control options to improve the management of
parthenium. |
Objectives implicit in the workshop process were the exchange of information and production of a report on the workshop and its findings.
Having brought the stakeholders together for a two-day workshop we then implemented the workshop in a structured manner as shown in
the Figure below. It consisted of three stages:
| problem specification, |
| the identification of major opportunities and constraints, and |
| needs analysis as a basis for the development of action plans for future implementation. |
To facilitate this process we used a number of techniques that we have found to be extremely useful in encouraging group activity and focusing the
groups' attention.
The problem specification workshop process.
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Larissa Bilston and
Geoff Norton
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