Defining strategic priorities for agroforestry research: report of Programme Committee Workshop, September 4-6, 2006; Lord Errol Runda, Nairobi, Kenya [draft]

In 2005, the Board of Trustees approved a Strategic Planning Framework for ICRAF to help guide the Centre’s vision of a global agroforestry transformation. This vision is captured in the “Trees of Change” publication which is now widely disseminated to ICRAF partners and community of investors. The EPMR Panel fully endorsed both documents and commended the approach taken to establish a foundation for strategic planning at the Centre. The EPMR report, however, challenged ICRAF in its first recommendation to develop a full strategic plan: “ICRAF consolidate its strategic research priorities into a long-term workable strategic plan that directs more effort towards a small number of relevant emerging research topics. (page 93)”. The newly created Strategic Alignment Committee (SAC), also recommended by the Panel, has now been assigned this task. SAC’s role is to provide overall direction and leadership for the planning process that should ultimately involve all staff in the entire organization. In order to consolidate all relevant emerging research topics into a few focus areas, ICRAF needs a process that relates it current activities to the changing environment as described in the Strategic Planning Framework (SPF), as well as one that is amenable to the corporate culture. In this regard, SAC established the following key set of principles that define the context for a planning process in accordance with clear definition of what we must accomplish, why and for whom, and how the task will be accomplished.

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