Strategic planning in DGVS is an organizational management activity that is used to set priorities, focus energy and resources, strengthen operations, ensure that employees and other stakeholders are working toward common goals, establish agreement around intended outcomes/results, and assess and adjust the organization’s direction in response to a changing environment.
Participatory, cooperative approach in all our projects in the respective areas are planned and executed in close cooperation with local people who are well-aware
and have the necessary project management know-how. We choose, conceive and implement the projects together with our local partners in a participatory manner. The partners are responsible for conducting the project on site, for writing regular
reports, for administering the finances and for carrying out annual audit reports. DGVS provides the financial means, administers, controls and evaluates the projects and keeps contact with the funding bodies and with major as well as small donors. We put particular emphasis on gender equality when conceiving our projects as well as with regard to their execution, administration and management. By leaving the execution of the projects in the hands of our local people and by providing them with systematic professional training whenever necessary, we want to strengthen their structures and to increase their competence and their sense of ownership
As we are convinced that our local partners and people have the necessary know-how for implementing the projects, we refrain from deploying long-term development aid workers or expatriates.
DGVS’s plan essentially focuses on the future and suggests measures that must take to achieve its goals. DGVS helps in establishing concurrence around the desired results of the destined objectives and towards its goals as well as reviews and adjusts the overall direction of the organization in response to changing circumstances. Furthermore, it filters the problems that prevent organizational growth and progress and suggests suitable measures and steps in correcting these issues.
An effective strategic planning is a result of disciplined efforts which ultimately define an organization, shapes and guides its activities and functions, classifies its services and the reasons behind its functions and services along with a strong focus on the future. It communicates the overall journey of an organization, the necessary actions that are needed to be taken for its growth and development and also the ways by which it will assess its progress and evaluate its achievements.