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Title: EPN7 Drafting an Effective Strategy
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EPN7Drafting an Effective Strategy
- Chris Bressey
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- Humanitarian Training centre since 1983
- Based near Lyon in France
- Long trainings 9 months on site 12 months
in the field to get the diploma - Logisticians, Admins, WATSANs, Project Management
- Short trainings
- Partnership trainings with IRIS in Paris, DCI
in Dublin, Liverpool University, HCR in Tchad,
etc.
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Chris Bressey
- Runs Bioforce end of M. Sc. in Humanitarian
Programme Management - Business background and experience
- Chairman of a back-to-work not-for-profit near
Lyon - Field experience short humanitarian training
missions - Basic trade trainer
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So, what does an outsider see?
- Service providers the NGOs
- Money providers the donors
- Customers
- Beneficiaries
- Donors
- General public
- Local governments
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And, what does an outsider ask?
- How can you even think about ROI in a profession
that talks about donors? - Its much more comfortable not to think about it
- We talk about retaining staff why dont we talk
about burnout? - Should we try and retain people? Is it moral?
- What does this profession need to protect so
much? - Massive NIH problem
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Some structural problems
- Putting out brushfires
- Q1 how can I stop putting out brush fires?
- High staff turnover
- No planned training for managers?
- Project-oriented financing
- Good project management
- (Much better than businesses)
- Poor H.O. management
- 20bn spend on consultants
- Cf Action Aid report
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To be more professional
- We need
- Solid values agreed upon by the profession
- Body of accepted skills and knowledge
- Set of systems that allow the profession to
provide services reliably
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But
- Do we have an agreed definition of the
humanitarian profession? - Who would go about setting it up?
- Do we have an agreed body of skills?
- ditto
- Do we even agree that we are service providers?
- And can therefore learn from any other service
provider
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But
- We probably do have an agreed set of values
- We have SPHERE, HAP, COMPAS, PIA Code of Good
Practice, UN standards, etc.
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Management is about setting priorities(Q2)
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Todays quote
Change comes when someone sees the next
step Henry Fords wordsmy italics
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So, whats a strategy?
- Tells you where you want to go
- And by when
- Should allow you to say no
- Legible to everyone in the organisation
- Therefore owned by everyone in the organisation
- Therefore developed by everybody in the
organisation - Therefore its a slow process
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Developing a strategy
- Its a project
- We know how to run projects
- To get it started
- step back,
- slow down,
- think
- Then Just do it!
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Sorry. Go back to the office
- Q3 does your organisation have a strategic
plan? (yes/no/dont know) - Q4 do you know what it is? (yes/no/dont know)
- Q5 does it affect you? (yes/no/dont know)
- Q6a if it does, what do you need to do to
implement it?Q6b if it doesnt, what do you
need to do, to make sure it does?
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