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Spreadsheet Tool User Manual for Planning MSW Management

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Box: Benefits of Strategic <strong>Planning</strong><br />

<strong>Spreadsheet</strong> <strong>Tool</strong> <strong>User</strong> <strong>Manual</strong> for <strong>Planning</strong> <strong>MSW</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />

Benefits of Strategic <strong>Planning</strong> 3<br />

Provides a clear definition of organization’s purpose (vision/mission) and helps to<br />

establish and achieve realistic goals and objectives in a defined time‐frame within the<br />

organization’s capacity.<br />

Helps in communicating the vision/mission, goals and objectives to the constituents of<br />

the organization.<br />

Focuses the organization’s resources on key priorities hence ensuring an efficient use.<br />

Provides a monitoring base from which progress can be measured and establishes a<br />

mechanism for informed change when needed.<br />

Brings together everyone’s best and most reasoned efforts: this has important value in<br />

building a consensus about where the organization is going.<br />

Helps in developing a sense of ownership of the plan when implemented in a<br />

participatory manner<br />

The following figure elucidates in detail various steps involved in the SP process and how this<br />

<strong>Spreadsheet</strong> <strong>Tool</strong>kit will be able to help in Strategic <strong>Planning</strong>.<br />

3 Strategic <strong>Planning</strong>: Available at: http://www.mapnp.org/library/plan_dec/str_plan/str_plan.htm<br />

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