Consultant at Action Africa Help - International

Action Africa Help International (AAH-I) is seeking for the services of a Consultant to write out its Strategic Plan, 2019 – 2023 as outlined in the scope of work below. Additional information can be provided to potential bidders upon request.

INTRODUCTION:

AAH-I’s Five-Year Strategic Plan, 2014 – 2018

In late 2013 AAH-I developed and launched its 5-Year Strategic Plan (SP) 2014 – 2018 which outlines the framework for the organization’s programmes and activities as guided by the institution’s vision, mission and core values.

AAH-I undertook a mid-term review (MTR) of the SP in the third year (2016) of its implementation to identify challenges and outline corrective actions to ensure that implementation of the strategic plan was on track to achieve maximum results by the time of its completion. It was part of ongoing process of learning, continual improvement and development of the organization.

AAH- STRATEGIC PLAN, 2019 - 2023

This year 2018, the organisation set out to design the next Strategic Plan for the period 2019 – 2023. Since March 2018 there have been several engagements at corporate and country levels to understand the external and internal contexts, discern drivers of change and craft tenets of corporate culture that will take the organisation to the next level.

The 2019 – 2023 Strategic Plan is expected to be a result of various analyses and reviews of the previous period, taking into account the significant changes and emerging issues – political, environmental and social-cultural that have taken place in AAH-I’s operating context and internal organizational environment in the past five years.

The following activities have already been undertaken by the Board of Directors and Technical and Management Teams (TMT):

• Revisiting the vision, mission and core values of AAH-I;
• Internalizing and incorporating the key findings and recommendations of the mid-term review of the current Strategic Plan, 2014 – 2018;
• Internal organizational context mapping and capacity assessment using the McKinley 7S methodology and SWOT
• External operating context analysis using a mix of brainstorming and researching on current and emerging global, regional and country-specific information using PESTEL
• Strategic choices have been made in respect to thematic interventions, geographic focus and key approaches.

A lot of information has already been generated through internal inputs, discussions, consensus and decisions. The Consultant's scope of work is therefore to write out the Strategic Plan, with assistance and participation of the TMT.

Unless otherwise directed, the Consultant's key deliverables are as follows:

1. Conduct a review of the information which has been generated to date by the Board of Directors and TMT;
2. Hold one-on-one and group discussions with the TMT to generate further ideas that will help to clarify or enrich the information provided;
3. Recommend further data gathering, where information provided is inadequate;
4. Prepare a draft of the Strategic Plan that is based on the information gathered through intense engagement with the TMT.

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