We kicked off our Strategy Update process in September 2019, with the aim of sharpening and refreshing our strategy in order to maximize our effectiveness and impact. We adjusted the pace of the process to take account of staffing changes, particularly that a new Director for Operations and Programs will be starting in mid-February. We have made good progress, consulting externally with a number of partners and potential partners (thanks for your feedback!), engaging with our Board, and holding a number of rich and engaging team discussions around our programmatic approach, financial sustainability, and planning and systems.
The key elements are as follows (click on the tabs below to read more regarding each section, or view the full PDF):
- Vision, Impact, Mission and Values: We have revised our vision and mission statements, provided a clearer statement of our values, and sharpened the statement of our intended impact: Governance reformers and change agents are better able to address corruption and improve the use of public resources.
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- Theory of Change (ToC): We maintain our focus on the power dynamics and incentives that lie at the heart of governance-related challenges. With this as our foundation, we set out more clearly how the approach we take to supporting efforts to address such challenges is shaped by our thinking about how change happens and the value of adaptive ways of working.
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- Thematic Areas: We focus our efforts on three overlapping themes central to ensuring that public resources are used effectively: Open Government; Integrity and Anti-Corruption; and Public Service Delivery. Informed by our overall theory of change, our work on each of these themes will have a distinctly Global Integrity flavor.
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- Partnership Approach: We provide tailored support, working closely with our partners as they craft solutions to specific challenges relating to open government; integrity and anti-corruption; and public service delivery. We produce research, accompany reformers, strengthen connections, and conduct advocacy, enabling our partners to work adaptively in ways that engage with power dynamics and incentives.
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- Operating Principles: We set out the principles of a new operating model that will help to ensure that our ways of working are fully aligned with our goals, strategy, and values. These principles cover three areas: People (how we make the most of our human resources); Partnerships (how we listen and respond to partners’ needs); and Processes (how we walk the talk in terms of working adaptively).
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- Funding and Sustainability: We outline how we plan to respond to the challenge of financial sustainability, translating the demand for our support, and for the valuable role we play in shaping transparency and open government agenda, into the resources we need for financial sustainability and impact. Our strategy refresh is an important part of our response, setting us up to listen and respond more closely to our partners’ needs, ensure that resources invested in our work add real value to those on the frontline of addressing governance-related challenges, and maximize our impact.
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Once this strategy update has Board approval, we—with our new Director for Operations and Programs playing an important role—will develop an implementation plan setting out how we are going to move forward in the directions identified in our revised strategy. In parallel with preparing for Board discussions in early February, we are keen to get reactions from existing and potential partners and funders. We would very much welcome your feedback and responses. We are open to all sorts of feedback, but would particularly welcome your responses to the following survey:
(NOTE: The survey contains short sections corresponding to each section of the update, which can be accessed by clicking on the above tabs, viewing the full PDF, or clicking the section-specific links provided within the survey itself.)
