Step 4: Strategy Implementation

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• Step 4 Strategy Implementation

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Learning Objectives

• Understand the elements and benefits of
  developing an action plan
• Value the involvement of internal stakeholders at
  different levels in the development of an action
  plan

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Strategy Implementation

• Developing an action plan
• Preparing financial plan
• Mobilizing resources
• Designing a monitoring and evaluation system

Budgeting, Gantt chart
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Action Plan Defined
What is the activity?
What
Who is the person responsible for seeing that
the activity is carried out?
Who
How
What resources are necessary?
By what date should the activity be completed?
When
Where
Where will the activity take place?
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Implementation of Strategy Entails

• Building sector capacities to implement the
  strategy successfully
• Allocating sufficient resources
• Establishing strategy supportive policies

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Implementation of Strategy Entails

• Establishing best practices and programs for
  continuous improvement
• Installing support systems
• Creating a strategy-supportive culture
• Exerting strategic leadership

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Developing an Action Plan

• Developing and sequencing activities
• Breaking strategic interventions into activities,
  and sequencing the interventions and activities
• Assigning responsibility
• Developing a time schedule

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Developing an Action Plan

• Calculating and assigning needed resources
• Developing a financial plan
• Ensuring a comprehensive reporting monitoring
  system
• Ensuring needed mid-course correction

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Develop and Sequence Activities
What
What is the activity?
Who is the person responsible for seeing that the
activity is carried out?
Who
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Developing a Time Schedule Gantt Chart
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Calculating and Assigning Needed Resources

• Identify resource requirements for each strategic
  intervention and activity
• Information and technology
• Personnel and training
• Support resources supplies, storage, vehicle
• Facilities and equipment
• Procedures operational guidelines,
  administrative procedures

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Developing a Financial Plan

• Determine required inputs
• Calculate cost of inputs
• Identify sources of revenue
• Prepare a 3-5 year plan and budget estimates

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Ensuring a Sound Reporting Monitoring System

• Constantly evaluate performance
• Monitor situation decide how well things are
  going
• Make necessary adjustments

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Ensuring Needed Mid-course Correction

• Corrective adjustments can entail
• Altering long-term direction
• Redefining the operations
• Raising or lowering performance objectives
• Modifying the strategy
• Improving strategy execution

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Implementation of a National-level Action Plan

• Coordinating agencies
• Action plans for national, subnational, and
  organizational levels
• Involvement of decision makers and implementers
  at all levels