Team members of the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) received an update about its progress for its three-year strategic plan during its meeting early this January.

The Strategic Plan is a product of a process involving all the stakeholders of CSJ – the board, management, staff, beneficiaries, etc. The Lead Director started the process through an invitation to Staff and the Board to contribute ideas for the review of the earlier Strategic Plan which was expiring by the effluxion of time.

The process took cognizance of new development in programming since the previous Strategic Plan, developments in the civil society sector, new approaches to tackling existing challenges and the extant economic, social and political challenges facing the Nigerian society.  CSJ reviewed the successes, challenges, opportunities, weaknesses and failures associated with the previous Plan. It sought answers to posers such as; what worked and why did it work? What did we fail to achieve and why did we fail?  The planning process reviewed new programme directions, institutional capacity building, fundraising strategies, improving existing networks and tapping new stakeholder resources.

CSJ effectively started operations in 2008 and it has been 15 years of activities, achievements and setbacks. The Strategic Plan 2022-2025 seeks to review and build on the achievements of the previous strategic plan.

It is a forward looking framework the interrogated and reviewed the vision and mission of CSJ; set priorities that works towards the mission and vision of CSJ, articulating the needed resource profile needed to meet the priorities and how to raise it; indicating the way, means and resources needed to improve upon current performance and a benchmark against the performance of peers and best in class. The Plan seeks to identify the indicators of success to verify the achievement of set targets and goals.

Also, it sought to clarify whether CSJ needs to expand or contract its work programmes and services; identify new competencies necessary to compete in the field; and increase the value of its brand to stakeholders.