Training and Advanced Education Unit (TAE)
Training and Educational Outreach

Learning Managers Forum (LMF)

The Learning Managers Forum (LMF) is an annual Forum, open to colleagues responsible for managing the staff development, training and learning functions in each of the United Nations agencies and affiliated international organizations. It is a key platform for exchange, discovery, discussion, collaboration, coordination and planning on learning and training related issues within the UN System.

In light of increasing internal reform efforts within the UN System, the LMF Planning Committee agreed on the relevance of the theme given the role that Chiefs of learning, training and staff development have to play in these efforts. With regard to this common objective, UNICRI played an important role by co-organizing the LMF 2009 along with UNSSC, UNITAR, UNFPA, and UNAIDS at the UN Campus in Turin, Italy.

In 2009, the LMF focused on three main themes:

• “Delivering as One:” The role of Learning Managers at headquarters level (capturing perspective of field offices) in promoting interagency learning at country level (e.g. tools and methodology).
• Different methodologies and tools: blended learning; coaching; e-learning in the web 2.0 era; workshops, etc.
• Managing the learning function in an environment of decreasing resources.