April 20, 2016
On March 14th and 15th, The Foundation For Tomorrow conducted twin events seeking to celebrate the year’s events and accomplishments, and present what is in store for the organization and its partners in the next 5 years.
Since 2013, we have conducted our Annual Program Review yearly, as a show of commitment and accountability to our mission, our program goals, as well as strategies. We normally do this at the beginning of the year, but this year we made an exception and decided to hold it in March because we wanted to do it concurrently with our Strategic Plan 2016-2020 launch. As with past years, the 2016 Annual Program Review was graced by our stakeholders and partners, including some of our scholars and guardians/parents. Each program manager presented their respective program successes—citing numbers reached, activities carried out, and impact of work done the previous year. We also presented the challenges we encountered and the lessons we learned. Each presentation was followed by vibrant discussion between presenters and our guests. Our guests helpfully shared practices that worked for them in their own organizations, asked us further questions about what we presented, and gave suggestions on how best to address the challenges we met in our program implementation.
On Day 2 (March 15th), we unveiled our 2016-2020 Strategic Plan to our partners. As an organization that values participatory processes, TFFT’s 5-year strategic plan was developed with the help and participation of our partners and stakeholders. It was June last year when we embarked on this strategic planning process. Our partners’ input during the process helped us define the best direction to take and decide on where to focus our energy and resources as an organization based on our desired future. This is why the Strategic Plan launch was a very important event for us—it is both a presentation of how we want to grow and operate as an organization and a celebration of the common goals of a committed community.
Our former Country Director, Kennedy Oulu, graced the occasion and played an active role during the event, presenting the evaluation result of the 3-year Strategic Plan that ended last year. Even our partners played an active role during the launch by reviewing the outcome challenges we have formulated for them as our boundary partners, as well as the different progress markers of how we see them acting, behaving, and relating with one another.
It was sure hectic preparing for and actualizing these two events, but it went smoothly and successfully because of the awesome teamwork shown by TFFT staff. Thanks, Team!