Emphasis on Results at Pacific TI Workshop
13/12/2009
Pacific TI Chapters gathered in Wellington, New Zealand on December 11 and 12 for a two-day workshop on strategic planning. TI Fiji was represented by Chair Mr. Dave Aidney and Director Mrs. Suliana Siwatibau at the workshop, which was aimed at assisting Pacific chapters with strengthening their annual strategic plans and focus-ing on monitoring and evaluating.
“The emphasis was on results based planning and the discus-sion on monitoring and evaluation was interesting,” said Mrs. Siwatibau. “The advice is to try to build in regular moni-toring and evaluation and to include its costs in the budget.”
TI Fiji‟s representatives returned eager to share what they had learned. This will be vital in working to formulate an ambitious but achievable strategic plan for TI Fiji that is within resource constraints and pro-duces measurable results.
“We gained better insight on the elements of a good strategic plan and more confidence in our ability to help our own team with the process which we have to undertake early in February to prepare TI Fiji‟s strategic plan for the next 3 years,” said Mrs. Siwatibau.
Aside from the technical know-how gained, for Mr. Aidney it was also an opportunity to meet regional colleagues and exchange ideas
“Being my first TI regional meeting, I also found the opportunity to meet the Chairs and CEOs of the other Pacific Island Chapters. Very rewarding to learn from them and their key outcomes,” he added.
“At our Strategic Planning workshop on February 12 - 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,” Mr. Aidney concluded.