Project Description

Plan International Pakistan is an international development organization operating in Pakistan since 1997. Plan is a child centered organization striving for redeeming the conditions pertaining to children.

Country Strategy Programme is a pragmatic approach for Plan International Pakistan, to get engaged in the development endeavors. Country Strategy Programme III spanning from period of year 2010 through 2015 has been in place across the thematic areas of health, education, livelihood, disaster and governance. The CSP III rests on the tenets of rights based approach, whereby ensuring improved service delivery, capacity development of right holders and duty bearers, building partnerships and alliances, research & advocacy are the key strategic elements, to deliver the programme.

CSP III review has been a structured process carried out to review the progress of the CSP III across the thematic areas. This process involved consultations with a wide array of the stakeholders including community, Plan partners, duty bearers at federal, provincial and district level, Plan CMT, ECMT & managers pertaining to key functions and Plan staff across all the layers.

A total of 478 people put forth their views about different facets of CSP III, including 311 men and 167 women.

The review reveals that programme interventions of Plan International Pakistan are relevant within the context of peculiar challenges of Pakistan. The right based approach has started paying dividends as per overall development thirsts, however, the overall programme performance can be termed as above average, in terms of the overall impact.

The peculiar challenges associated with the education programme include mainstreaming non formal education and supporting the specific plan of action for education at provincial & local levels.

Health programme has delivered well against the key interventions. The overall level of impact of the health programme can be further improved while focusing on the basic health services provision in the community through both hard and soft components, participating in EPI programmes, mother & neonatal health care and addressing national health emerging issues like nutrition etc.

Livelihood programme has much room to impart a further improvement in human capital development and initiating self-sustained entrepreneurship models addressing Agri value chain, services and skills for ensuring general necessities and utilities.

Disaster programme has a high potential for scale up to further locations, integrated disaster management, programme integration with other thematic areas and building resilience in congruence with the national and provincial disaster authorities.

Governance needs improvement across all the facets right away from building even more capacity to provision of resources.

Plan International Pakistan needs more integration at provincial level, in order to get benefitted from the congeniality of the environment prevailing across the units of governance after 18th amendment. This will help Plan International Pakistan ensure a right alignment with the provincial units.

Centricity of CCCD approach is reflected in the programming; however, the CCCD standards based community development is an area where Plan International Pakistan needs to put more focus.

Plan International Pakistan needs to address the organization in terms of its structure & culture. The organizational structure is unable to carry the size of the activity of the organization.

Talent management is the key area where Plan needs to built-inefficiency in order to ensure an uninterrupted on-boarding and development of the critical talent. Employee satisfaction, career advancement and growth opportunities, increased sense of ownership, positively enforced set of values and enabling behaviors and installation of standardized processes across all the organizational facets are the key areas where people and culture department needs to have a disciplined and forward looking approach.

Finance functions role can be leveraged within the entire organization. Proper strategic financial management can help Plan International Pakistan become even more sustainable as organization.

Role of Information Technology has to be elevated, as this can serve in the long term interest of the organization by making Plan International more efficient and control oriented.

There is an elaborated need for an integrated Monitoring, Evaluation & Research system that can help the management and operational staff, to navigate through the performance against the interventions.

Productivity of “Communications and Advocacy” can be enhanced. The role of the two has to be stipulated right from the programme intervention pre-planning stages, so that a uniform approach can help across the facets of programme planning and implementation.

Community development processes and engagement of the community around CCCD standards needs a tremendous improvement this can be addressed through a standardized social mobilization approach.

PALS, needs more strength and elaboration, so that the process efficiency has to be reviewed and enhanced.

A structured change programme for the entire organization is inevitable, given the kind of organizational development challenges the organization is facing.

Future outlook, of Plan International Pakistan is quite optimistic, as the thematic areas, picked up by the organization are highly relevant with the child rights scenario. There is a huge opportunity for Plan to exploit its programming relevance and experience, during the future in order attain a sustained and distinctively advantaged position, within the context of not-for-profit development.