1. Defining a National Strategy for Improvement of Gender Statistics
AN OUTLINE

2. NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF GENDER STATISTICS IN UGANDA

3. Outline Introductions / Overview Strategic Planning: Why?
Strategic Planning: How, What, Who, When?
Overcoming Challenges and Pitfalls
Sample Strategic Plans

4. What is a strategic plan and why is it needed?
A roadmap to launch and grow your organization
Process as important as product (perhaps more important)
Aligns stakeholders around strategic priorities Communicates your goals, strategies and programs
Engages stakeholders: external and internal organizations and individuals (e.g., Government, Private, Academia, Gender Specialists, Gender Activist, Ministry of Gender….Research Institutions, Donors, DPs, Board, Staff, etc.)

5. Process, not just a Product
Analysis and Assessment
Strategic Development
Strategy Execution
Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting

6. Analysis and Assessment
Scanning the field:
Builds knowledge on trends, best practices, existing initiatives, gaps, etc.
Builds buy-in through stakeholder engagement
Enables the organization to position itself in a larger landscape
Clarifies the unique value-add of the organization or initiative within a complex marketplace

7. Strategy Development A process, not simply a product
Dynamic, not static
Engages ALL Relevant Stakeholders: UBOS, MDAs, Staff, Funders, Women and Men groups, Community leaders, DPs, Gender Advocates on:
SDG Goals, Gender issues, gender statistics, budget
4. Helps align mission, programs, capacity

8. Key Components Executive Summary Mission and Vision
Environmental Analysis / SWOT
Goals, Priorities and Strategies
Additional components: financial plan, evaluation, staffing / operational plan

9. Mission, Vision, Values Time to work out: Vision Mission Values
of the “Improvement of Gender Statistics in Uganda”

10. Environmental Analysis
Reviewing literature on gender issues and gender statistics works, documents, policies etc
Identifying and analyzing similar organizations working on the issue elsewhere
Interviewing experts in your field and related fields on gender statistics
PEST: political, economic, social, technological factors that affect gender issues and statistics in Uganda
SWOT: Gender statistics in Uganda: Strengths and Weaknesses, as well as Opportunities and Threats

11. The existing frameworks
Legal, regulatory framework
Discuss the mandate of the Ministry of Gender….in Uganda
Institutional framework
Gender arrangements

12. Goals, Priorities and Strategies
Outlines the goals, priorities, and strategies to meet the mission
State 3 -4 overarching goals aligned with mission Priorities, activities, objectives, strategies are in more depth, have more specificity – each goal could have a few different objectives / strategies associated with it
Need to find balance between aspiration and forward looking on gender statistics

13. Other components
Resource Mobilization, Financials (how do your financials align with your aspirations?)
Capacity building and Staffing
Evaluation (what will success look like?)
One page summary / Key highlights / dashboard to track progress
Develop clear outputs matrix
Prepare a budget
Preparing a long, ambitious, 5 year plan that sits on a shelf

14. Overcoming Challenges and Pitfalls
Challenge of consensus over clarity
Challenge of who provides input versus who decides
Finding a balance between process and a final product
Communicating and executing the plan

15. Executive Summary
Can be the most important part of the document – may be the only portion read by external stakeholders
Should succinctly convey the future direction, priorities and impact
Write this last!

16. Now you have the draft Strategy for:
NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF GENDER STATISTICS IN UGANDA
Take it to Stakeholders for validation
The President and Cabinet must endorse it to make it a legal document