Overall Strategic Goal
To build a robust, agile, resilient, and sustainable Institution
Focus Area Objectives
- To broaden the Pan-African identity of AFRODAD Board
- To enhance the financial and operational sustainability of AFRODAD
- To deepen institutional partnerships with national, regional, multilateral, and global institutions and organisation
Rationale
The Institutional Development and Sustainability (IDS) of AFRODAD is an evolving process that builds on the successes and achievements from the ending Strategic Plan period 2016-2020 and looks to innovate in the new period 2021-2025.
The key to the success of the IDS pillar will be to embrace change in a way that continues to build on previous successes, innovate in the light of new dynamics, and increase flexibility at AFRODAD. The IDS pillar has the following three elements:
- Internal elements – Enhanced institutional operations
- External elements – Partnerships and Institutional Development
- Board – Governance and Institutional sustainability
With the current organisation’s focus on the dispersion model and successful implementation of the enterprise resource planning system, the functional efficiency and effectiveness of the administrative and human resources structures assume a more cardinal role in supporting the core strategic objectives of the organisation. These functions will aim to establish, maintain, and review their objectives in line with changing environments and organisational culture.
Focus Area Objectives
To establish dynamic, high quality and innovative organisational capacity, resources, and space in line with agreed institutional development principles
AFRODAD organisational governance will encompass a more Pan African approach to the organisational culture, ethics and systems through regionally applicable policies, gender sensitive operations, and unbiased transformative growth processes. Over the next five years, we will continue to emphasise our strong systems, policies, and procedures that have given AFRODAD the robust reputation of integrity. Something that has been noted by both partner and funding organisations alike. The upgrading of ICT systems will further enhance this element of our operations and contribute to the ease of successfully establishing the dispersion model. These enhancements are expected to boost both operational and programmatic elements of AFRODAD’s work. Therefore, upgrading the ICT infrastructure at AFRODAD will be an immediate priority for the Strategic Plan period if the dispersion model is to be fully realised.
Focus Area Objectives
To strengthen AFRODAD’s Continental footprint and partnership of African CSOs on Debt and Development
As part of increasing its African Footprint, AFRODAD will strengthen its work with like-minded individuals and institutions across all regions of Africa to constitute an African Network of individuals and organisations working together on Debt and Development issues.
The regional economic communities. There are six regions in Africa including the Diaspora (North, South, East, West, Central and the Diaspora) but there are 8 recognised regional economic communities (RECs) which are the building blocks of the African Economic Community:
- The Arab Maghreb Union (AMU/UMA) in the north,
- The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in the west,
- The East African Community (EAC) in the east,
- The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) also in the east,
- The Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the south,
- The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) in the southeast,
- The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) in the centre, and
- The Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CENSAD) in the north.
Influencing Agencies. At the institutional level, the influencing agenda for AFRODAD will continue as has been in the previous Strategic Plans at the African Union, Global, and Sub-Regional. In this Strategic Plan period, we will prioritise the African Union processes and institutions as this is consistent with the Pan-African agenda that underpins this strategic plan.
At the partnership level on policy issues, AFRODAD will play a critical role in galvanising the CSO debt movement through its influencing agenda. This will be anchored in the African Borrowing Charter.
AFRODAD believes in Solidarity and hence works in partnership with others to promote an Africa that is free from poverty and where development gains are shared equitably among all. In this regard, the organisation will create strategic alliances with selected civil society organisations because the more networking that exists among actors, the more empowered they become to hold decision-makers accountable. The organisation will ideally have organisational partners in at least 33 African countries with official Memoranda of Understanding. AFRODAD will strive to:
- Maintain communication with key stakeholders throughout the advocacy process
- Ensure participation in the implementation of joint activities and
- Strengthen partnerships and coordination between civil society organisations and government institutions and representatives.
