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KENYA LAW REPORTS BENCH BULLETIN NCLR HOLDS FIRST STRATEGIC PLANNING RETREAT By Racheal Mwaura, Programme Officer DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS regulations and guidelines governing the affairs of state corporations and the formulation of a working draft/first version of the proposed strategic plan. One of the sessions during the Council Straff’s Strategic Planning Retreat Racheal Mwaura Programme Officer For an organization, the lack of a vision, mission, statement of values and a strategic plan results in a reactionary, uncoordinated and fire-fighting approach to strategic issues and frustrates the expectations of the organization’s stakeholders. Organizational strategic planning is the means by which an organization articulates its mandate and charts out the manner in which it proposes to hone its resources towards the most effective way of fulfilling that mandate. In order for it to be effective, a strategic plan needs to have the input, understanding and endorsement of all the organization’s employees, who are in fact an important constituency among an organization’s stakeholders. For a long time, the National Council for Law Reporting’s strategic plan has been subsumed under the larger Strategic Plan for the Judiciary, its parent ministry. However, best practices in organizational operations require that an organization, even a semi-autonomous state agency such as the Council, should have its own strategic plan embodying its vision, mission, values, functions and setting out a plan of activities for fulfilling those functions. In this regard and in order to align the National Council for Law Reporting with Vision 2030 and the Judiciary Strategic Plan 2009-2012, the Council’s staff retreated to the leafy and tranquil surroundings of Nyeri town between June 17-19 2010, to focus their minds on the formulation of the Council’s Strategic Plan for the period 2009-2012. The retreat was the culmination of a series activities undertaken by the Council in late 2009 which included stakeholder consultation, departmental briefings, a review of laws, During the retreat, the Council’s staff had the benefit of the technical advice of Mrs. Florence Mutua from the Directorate of Personnel Management (DPM) and Mr. Kennedy Nyambati from the Inspectorate of State Corporations who provided invaluable input in the areas of personnel management and corporate governance respectively. The retreat was presided over by Mr. Michael M. Murungi, the Ag. Editor/CEO of the Council. It was moderated by Ms. Esther Nyaiyaki, the Ag. Snr. Assistant Editor while Ms. J. Kambuni, Ms. Njeri Kamau and Mr. Andrew Kiarie served as the rapporteurs. The working draft of the proposed strategic plan was subjected to the consideration of a full-plenary of the Council’s staff who made key contributions on the vision, mission, values, mandate, functions and strategic activities for Council. The retreat’s deliberations were informed by Vision 2030, the Judiciary’s Strategic Plan and a number of related documents, including the strategic plans of stakeholder institutions, the Constitution of Kenya and the laws and regulations governing the affairs of state corporations. Beyond presenting their views on the overall draft strategic plan for the Council, the staff cascaded the plan down to the departmental level with every department drawing from the draft organizational plan to formulate and present its own mission, functions, organogram, strategies and a plan of activities complete with budget and performance matrices. The plenary and departmental sessions gave ample opportunity for individual input ensuring that all departmental staff had a clear understanding of their role in the attainment of not only the Council’s mission but also the Judiciary’s vision as well as Vision 2030. 22 Issue 12: April-June 2010
KENYA LAW REPORTS BENCH BULLETIN DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS The National Council for Law Reporting staff during the recent Strategic Planning Retreat held in Nyeri between June 17-19 2010. With them were Mr. K. Nyambati (seated third from left) from the Inspectorate of State Corporations and Mrs. F. Mutua (seated third from right) from the Directorate of Personnel Management in the Ministry of Public Service. By the close of the retreat, the deliberations had crystallized into a clear picture of what the members of the Council’s staff considered should be the direction in which the organization should be headed, the individual and departmental roles and activities necessary to steer towards the direction and an estimate of the resources required to get there. The curtain closed on the retreat with a presentation of certificates of participation to all the members of staff followed by an informal dinner. The Draft Strategic Plan that was the result of the retreat will be considered for adoption and/or amendment before a meeting of the Council’s Board. One of the sessions during the Council Straff’s Strategic Planning Retreat Issue 12: April-June 2010 23
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