Adam Clark is one of our lead trainers on our work with those who run the UK aid programme. He has successfully facilitated our scenario-based learning workshops for British Government staff since 2022. In this, he draws on his experience training staff working for the former DFID in programme management. He developed specialist training on risk and controls, on financial management and on commercial capability that he delivered to DFID programme staff throughout the world.
He is an accomplished facilitator. He was the designer and is the only trainer of the FAO’s Excellence in Facilitation workshops. He designed these to meet the specific need of the FAO to have competent facilitators to run analyses of food insecurity. The facilitators he has trained and certified run workshops that involve representatives of host country governments, UN agencies and NGOs and can be very controversial. Adam’s workshops enable the facilitators to learn the skills to listen effectively, and to manage and resolve conflicts in these highly charged environments.
Adam has run high-level conferences for the UN, including a complex meeting of the Uganda country team that involved some staff attending in person and some on line. He designed and ran an online workshop for UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa for representatives of ministries of health and education across the whole region, in three languages and with a team of facilitators working under his direction. He has also run meetings for country teams and technical colleagues from 25 countries throughout Eastern and Southern Africa.
His background as a civil engineer working in the water industry, for commercial companies, utilities and aid agencies gave him his grounding in project management and cross-cultural working.