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Description
The Crime Prevention Fund (IGA) has celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. The organization has developed dynamically from the very beginning and recently has accelerated the speed with the inclusion of new areas of intervention and the expansion of the scope of business at national and international level. The last review of the system and analysis of the organization has been carried out in 2007. The need of a new vision has been urgently felt by the organization teams recently. In 2018 the organization started working on a strategy for long-term development and it is expected to continue to work on it. The organization employs 70 professionals but it finds it difficult to involve young people, which is something of a concern to us. Another important issue is the public image of IGA, how the surrounding world looks at us, the public, institutions, experts, civil society organizations. It is necessary to review the approaches to improve the promotion of the organization. This project aims at achieving an agreement about the course of development in the long term. We will review, sum up and analyze the organization’s performance and based on the findings will take steps to boost its capacity in line with the specific objective. Expected outcomes/outputs: an analysis of the organization’s development; a survey of the opinions of IGA teams, partners, beneficiaries, clients and donors; an analysis of the needs of education and raising the competence of employees; a new strategy for development prepared. The direct target groups are our employees.
Summary of project results
The project aimed to achieve an agreement on the direction of the long-term development of the organization and to take action to enhance its capacity. The implementation of the project coincided with a complicated epidemiological, but also political situation in the country, which necessitated restructuring and extension of some of the activities, as well as extension of the project’s implementation period by one month.Despite the difficulties, the expected results were achieve:
- An analysis was done of the current activities of the organization with identified deficits and needs of its teams;
- Involved were all team members, as well as relevant partner organizations and institutions - in a comprehensive process of building a new vision for the future of IGA;
- A process of strategic planning was conducted, and the team achieved unity around a new mission, vision and five-year development strategy - key elements of the "White Paper of IGA";
- An information campaign was implemented with two public events and the organization''s website was updated: http://iga-bg.org/bg/home/
The strategic nature of the main results of the project will ensure their sustainability. A responsible IGA employee was appointed for each program area and strategic goal. The strategic planning process itself was evaluated positively by the teams of the organization, and the management undertook to monitor the implementation of the new Strategy and Action Plan.