New Year's Message from TI Fiji Board Members
01/01/2010
Challenges Met
“A strong and dedicated Board enabled the organisation to grow steadily [in 2009] despite relatively high turnover in staff and some difficulty within the Board membership. We gained much from core funding commitments from our donor partners enabling us to plan staff expansion and activities with a little more confidence than in previous years.”
“Strengthening of the Board and Management capacity during the coming year will benefit the organisation greatly. We hope for longer term commitment to core funding commencing in 2010 as it will enable us to plan more confidently for longer term programmes especially for youth and for greater community outreach.”
TI Fiji Board Director, Suliana Siwatibau
Lessons Learned
“Without a medium-term funding commitment it is difficult to recruit and retain the right people. Without a strategic plan with well defined key objectives and outcomes - it is difficult to attract medium term funding. The days of being reimbursed by way of half yearly acquittals are over. Donors are now more interested in hearing not only what we have done with their funds, but more so, what has been achieved by way of posi-tive outcomes with the use of their funds.”
“At our Strategic Planning Workshop on February 12 and 13, we will concentrate on developing a focused Strategic Plan which is achievable with the manpower and fiscal resources we have available and we will spend more time monitoring and evaluating the outcomes.”
TI Fiji Board Chair, Dave Aidney