Organizational development planning

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The third workshop for organizational strengthening of the first 16 institutional grantees of Civica Mobilitas was held on 25 February 2016 in the premises of МCIC. The aim of the workshop was for the participants to be guided in the process of preparation of Organizational Development Plan.

The international expert, Ana Vasilache explained the steps for the preparation of the Plan. She referred back to the previous activities on the basis of which the Plan should be developed.

The participants, through individual exercises during the workshop, started to fill in the Plan for their own organizations by defining the positive social changes they wanted to achieve at the level of joint causes, practicing values, civic engagement, level of organization, and influence.

The participants stressed that this whole process was useful for them. During the process, as some of them stressed, they became aware that primarily they were focused on implementation of projects, and very little or not at all on organizational issues which were also important for the functioning of their organizations. “We have received useful tools for identification of problems in the organizations”, Nevenka Longurovska from the Foundation for Local Community Development from Stip said, and she added that in the elaboration of the organizational life cycle, they could identify which and where their future steps should be, which helped them further on in their strategic planning.

Organizational development plan is one of the outputs which need to be prepared by the institutional grantees, and which will help them to orient themselves towards achievement of positive social changes that they have defined in their work plans more easily.