APPTODEV helps organisations especially those in the charitable sector to set up Strategic Plan. Setting strategic plan for non-profit making charitable organizations, especially for those who work in the remote areas of Africa, where nothing is predictable is very difficult to model. It is also very complicated to convince donors who were willing to be of assistance to those poor societies to channel their funds through the existing civil societies, which are not feasible according to the scales of the measurement of the donors, especially in Africa where donors do not directly fund the local NGOs, because of mainly lack of accountable governments and properly registered legal institutions, which could be accountable to donors.
Many times, the purpose of setting strategic plan is to make the organisation’s operations more effective by gradually building the internal capacity of the organisation and simultaneously responding the community needs prioritization according to its competence. In order the organisation to be accountable to all, it should be mature enough to run its programs effectively and stay as an entity sustainably. This sustainability is interrelated to its credibility and transparency. Therefore, strategic plan is nothing but linear growth of the organisation leading up to maturity with a concurrent extension of services and programs it provides its target community.
APPTODEV conducts three level Strategic Plans with the time frame of one week, one month and six months. The first form of Strategic Plan (one week) is nothing more than a kind of guidance of how to make things more comprehensible by identifying certain critical areas that the organisation must make tangible change. The second form of the Strategic Plan (one month) is to empower the organisation with tools that help them conduct their SP. In six months, APPTODEV conducts organisational capacity assessment, identifies both internal and external critical areas, finds alternative solutions to all the existing problems and gaps, formulates projects and programs, identifies sources of funding, writes implementation schedules, produces all the necessary policy reformations, clearly articulates all the different roles of all the stakeholders involved and compiles the Strategic Plan and launches it in a participatory workshop to ask for endorsement.