GOVERNANCE & STRATEGIC PLANNING
POLICY MAKING SEMINAR
Why do you need a strategy?
How should you go about preparing one?
What are the main components of strategic planning?
An intensive training program that is intended to equip practitioners and policymakers with the tools and techniques necessary for effective policymaking and strategic planning. Through models and concepts used in Governance & Strategic Planning, you will learn how to diagnose the specific structure of the challenge, and how to create policies that concentrate resources and actions; thus surmounting difficulties and promising leverage over outcome.
Description And Motivation
Governance is a process of management that prevents self-interest and shorttermism from getting in the way of sound strategy and effective management. It ensures open and effective channels of communication, and avoids ossification of management by identifying and balancing competing interests, by examining the quality of information, and nurturing independent challenge. By eliminating redundancies & inefficiencies through communication & coordination, resources can be redirected toward improving access and services to unserved or underserved areas or groups.
The seminar aims at answering the following conceptual and operational questions:
Under what circumstances has the concept of governance evolved? What are the major paradigmatic shifts?
Why do institutions find themselves outside the scope of governance?
Does your agency have a governance code that allows it to define its own unique set of principles?
Does it have a governance committee that sets the overall tone for agency governance reforms?
Do you have external qualified governance specialists that routinely visit your agency?
What checks and balances are in place on the authority of key decision makers?
How the organization delivers on its mission through quality service provision?
