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Appendix 4-3
Developing a Strategy for the SYLFF Network: Moving Forward
Jeanne Lee - Columbia University
Sherilyn Siy - Ateneo de Manila
Stuart Graham - University of California, Berkeley
SYLFF Program Administrators' Meeting
Copenhagen, January 16-19, 2007
What is a "Strategy?" Some concepts
■ A [disciplined effort] to produce [fundamental decisions] and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does (Bryon, 1995).
■ [Long-term direction and objectives] which affect the whole of the organization (Johnson & Scholes, 2000)
■ Strategy describes how an organization matches its own [capabilities with opportunities] in order to achieve its objectives (Pearson Education Canada, 2003)
■ "Strategy" as distinct from "Tactics"
■ We are developing an organization as well as a strategy.
Developing a strategy that "works"
■ Driven by our community's shared goals
■ Provide long-term direction
■ What do we want SYLFF Network to took like in 10 years?
■ Focus on process rather than product
■ Realistic, Action-oriented, and Easily understood
■ Should serve as a guide
■ Provide a framework for coordinating diverse activities
■ Involve ongoing evaluation
■ Monitor and evaluate to ensure effectiveness, and to adapt to changing circumstances
■ Be consistent with other strategies
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Adapted from ALGA Australia Local Gov't Assoc'n.
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Multi-level approach to Strategy Implementation
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Adapted from ALGA Australia Local Gov't Assoc'n.
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Some Questions for developing a strategy.
Looking Outward
■ OBJECTIVES: What do we want?
■ AUDIENCES: Who do we need to motivate?.
■ MESSAGE: What do they need to hear?
■ MESSENGERS: Who do they need to hear it from?
■ DELIVERY: How can we get them to hear it?
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Adapted from Jim Shultz, The Democracy Center
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Some Questions for developing a strategy
Looking Inward
■ RESOURCES: What have we got?
■ GAPS: What do we need to develop?
■ FIRST EFFORTS: How do we begin?
■ What would be an effective way to begin to move the strategy forward? What are some potential short term goals or projects that would bring the right people together, symbolize the larger work ahead and create something achievable that lays the groundwork for the next step?
■ EVALUATION: How do we tell if it's working?
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Adapted from Jim Shultz, The Democracy Center
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The SYLFF Fellows' Council:
What is it, and What you should know
Jeanne Lee - Columbia University
Sherilyn Siy - Ateneo de Manila
Stuart Graham - University of California, Berkeley
SYLFF Program Administrators' Meeting
Copenhagen January 2007
Where are we going today?
■ Our intention today is to introduce you to the workings, and work, of the SYLFF Fellows' Council
What is the Council?
■ Wealth of diversity
■ our personal rich experiences on Council
■ Our selection
■ the last round of Regional Forums
■ Electing 2 replacement members
■ the 3 holdover members
■ Israel (Mexico), Felix (Leipzig), Stu (Cal Berkeley)
■ New members from the Americas, Africa/Europe, Asia
■ Paulina (Chile), Jeanne (Columbia)
■ Rozenda (Western Cape), Stepan (Charles)
■ Sherilyn (Manila), Hunt(Jilin)
■ Evolution: PSFC = > SFC
■ What we accomplished:
■ Organization
■ Charter
■ JIP
■ FMP
■ Guidelines
The Mission
■ What is the SYLFF vision and mission
■ The Mission Statement for the SYLFF Fellows' Network
■ How did we formulate it
■ What are the challenges
Charter of the SYLFF Fellows' Council
■ In general
■ The PSFC felt that the Charter must "breathe," and that too rigid a document would "block" the flexibility we are seeking.
■ We fashioned the Charter so it would provide a workable structure, while not "locking" future councils into the PSFC's ideas of future needs that we have no way of foreseeing.
■ A "Constitution"
■ Structure, but without undue constrains
■ Flexibility
■ Transparency
■ Protections
■ against abuse
■ for minority voices
■ Entry into force: May 31,2005
Manila SYLFF Administrators' Meeting
■ The importance of having for the first time SYLFF Fellows' representatives together
■ The purpose of our attending
SYLFF Network Guidelines
■ The purpose
■ Hosting of SYLFF Fellows
■ Best Practices
■ Orientation
■ Mentoring
■ Travel
The JIP (Joint Initiatives Program)
■ How this program was envisioned
■ subcommittee
■ Aided by IAC, worldwide administrators
■ Our intention was to allow the Network to develop by giving it resources, and to re-involve graduated Fellows in SYLFF
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