Greater Sydney Landcare Strategic Plan review
A review of the GSLN Strategic Plan (2016-2019) was carried out and amended to guide us for the next three years
Capacity to Deliver - LP040-003
The issue
The challenge for any organisation, let alone a community network run by a steering committee of volunteers, is to keep on track and, to have solid aims and objectives to work towards.
The Strategic Plan GSLN had for the three year period 2016 - 2019 had elapsed and it was time to review it, to determine what we needed to do in order to get to where we want to go over the years 2020 - 2023.
The solution
To update our elapsed Strategic Plan we all came together (before Covid) and brainstormed how we had met all the actions from the first strategy. If we needed to follow up on some of them, this was noted, as was objectives and actions that we had done well.
The review was aided by an independent facilitator who collected all of our comments and compiled them for GSLN. The document was then pulled apart and put into a design representing what we had achieved for the previous three years and, what we hoped to achieve for the three years ahead.
The impact
The impact of this document is the provision of a Draft Strategic Plan providing direction to GSLN over the years 2020-2023. This will impact the Network's efficiency and success over this period and will give us a baseline to evaluate our performance and measure our outcomes against.
Policies and procedures, the GSLN website and other projects and publications will all link to the new strategic direction detailed in this plan. This will equate to a very professional and well organised community organisation.
Key facts
- A Strategic Plan is simply a roadmap for a group or organisation to follow, in order for them to get to where they - as a collective - want to go over a set timeframe.