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ECOWAS COMMISSION COMMISSION DE LA CEDEAO
STATUS REPORT ON THE STRATEGIC
PLANNING PROCESS:
Essien Abel Essien
Director, Strategic Planning
1. Review of Work Plan at the Inception of the Unit
2. Process Steps
3. Where We Are Today
4. Issues Uncovered
5. Lingering Challenges
Strategic Planning Unit:
Mandate
• Develop a mechanism for formulating sub-regional strategy and
implementing the regional integration and development agenda
• Develop detailed regional strategic plan.
• Ensure its conversion into operational, sectoral, regional and national
programmes.
• Develop short/medium and long term work plan.
• Develop a mechanism for facilitating coordination of the Commission’s
strategic plans in collaboration with the Commissioners and Directors.
STRATEGIC
DOCUMENTS
Strategic Plan: 207 -2010:
ECOWAS Vision 2020: Work in progress
Adopted in 2007
TOWARDS AN
ECOWAS
OF PEOPLES
Medium Term Action Plan:
Implementable Activity Plan
Capacity Building Plan:
Operational
Building ECOWAS Future Now
ECOWAS Vision Strategic Plan
• Follow up on the finalization Institute a strategic planning
with the Consultants. and programming system in
• Translate and produce a
final document for three phases
circulation ◦ Update the existing plan, taking
cognizance that the
implementation period was
almost coming to an end
◦ Develop an Action Plan and
integrate into the budgetary
system
◦ Design a supportive ICT
Infrastructure to aid monitoring
and evaluation
Process Steps (1 of 3)
We needed to
We needed to be Allowed us to
appreciate the
clear about the consciously be
resources we
objectives of the responsive to the
have available to
ECOWAS region / demands of the
meet these
Commission Community
objectives
• Determine our • Carry out a SWOT • Define goals and
main strategic analysis to appreciate intermediate and
mandate our strengths and short-term objectives
identify our obstacles
• Determine our • Develop a strategy
strategic vision & • Define our critical profile for the future
mission issues
• Draw an action
• Decide what timetable
resources are
required
Institute a Strategic Planning and
Programming System
Process Steps (2 of 3)
Program Established Defined a Draft the Zero
and Plan an Institutional clear process Version of the
Synthesis Framework strategy Strategic Plan
Arrangement
Details
• Analyze • Management • Participatory • Agenda
Planning Committee Approach • Mission
Documents
• Steering Committee • Ownership • Core Values
• Establish • Operational • Stakeholders • Environmental Scan
linkages Committee Confidence
• Strategic Framework
• ECOWAS Institutions
Coordinating • Implementation
Committee Strategy
Process Steps (3 Of 3)
Communicate Develop Institute a
Strategic Planning Develop an Capacity planning &
Process to internal Action Plan Building Plan programming
and external having identified system within a
customers capacity gaps program planning
cycle
Details
• Set up different • Identify planning • Monitoring and Evaluation
Stakeholder Forums issues • Develop a capacity
building plan System
• Implementation • Supportive ICT infrastructure
• Map the Key
Strategy
Performance • Implementation Review
• Town Hall Meetings Indicators Reports
at the Commission
• Carry out costing and • Midyear Execution Report
• Visit to ECOWAS
integrate into a multi- • President’s Annual Review
Institutions
year budgetary Reports
framework
Where We Are?
The ECOWAS
Vision 2020 has We have aligned the strategic plan with
been translated the 2020 Vision
after several reviews
The regional Strategic
Plan was finalized in June
We have started defining
2009, translated into French the programs / projects /
and circulated activities under the
Strategic Plan
We have commenced
the preparation of
the medium term
action plan that
will define the activities
under the Strategic Plan
How do we do this?
The methods and tools necessary to achieve our
How are we going to VISION mission. It involves preparing the best way to
achieve this?...What plan respond to the circumstances of the
should we follow?...How do organization's environment, whether or not these
we know when we have MISSION circumstances are known in advance
met our goals?...How do we
keep on track?
STRATEGY
How should we structure our
CAPABILITIES capabilities to realize value and
work efficiently?
ARCHITECTURE
Technology Organization
Funding
Processes
Facilities
Institutions Good
Governance Culture
Issues uncovered
Intervention seven in Key Areas Technical Assistance Road Map
Institutional Arrangement and Defined by the key intervention
Organizational structure areas
Process Redesign These defines the technical
Control Systems assistance needs
ICT Infrastructure Overhaul To support the reform and
Financial Strategy facilitate change in the key areas
Communication Strategy To aid the implementation of the
Strategic Alliance strategic plan
Development Partners (Pool Fund) Assistance is Required:
Lingering Challenges
Administrative
• Lack of staff, work tools, and office Developing the action plan for
space the regional strategic plan
• Conflicting Organizational Mapping the action plan to the
arrangement leading to coordination strategic objectives in the
nightmare strategic plan
• Lack of resources to carry out the Difficulties in the
activity planning implementation of an activity
• Absence of clear business units based/result based management
system
Management Buy-In is Required
Last Line
Strategic planning holds the key to development and
the promotion of economic integration in our region:
