1. Planning and Reporting
MODULE 11
Planning and Reporting

2. Module Objectives
To understand the importance of planning and reporting
Recognise what plans and reports should contain

3. Why Plan and Report? Essential for progress
Helps to improve techniques
Important to the success of the project

4. Planning Helps you think through your project
Guides your decisions and actions
Allows progress to be measured and interpreted

5. Organisations with Statutory responsibilities
Who are plans for?
Organisations with Statutory responsibilities
Funders

6. Who are plans for?
Stakeholders
You!

7. What should a plan contain?
Plans contain information about:
what we plan to do
why
where
How
When
How much it will cost
How we will measure our progress

8. What kinds of plans are there?
Strategic plans
Operational plans

9. What should an operational plan contain?
Outcomes
Objectives
Tasks
Measures

10. What you want to achieve
Desired Outcomes
What you want to achieve

11. What you intend to do with the targeted IAS
Objectives
What you intend to do with the targeted IAS

12. The actions you intend to take to achieve your objectives
Tasks
The actions you intend to take to achieve your objectives

13. Measures
Measures describe the standards to be met in achieving tasks and objectives

14. Letting ourselves, and others, know what we have achieved
Reporting
Letting ourselves, and others, know what we have achieved

15. How you should report? How you will report will
depend upon who you are
reporting to

16. Summary Planning and reporting are key activities in IAS management
Plans and reports involve stakeholders and funders
Plans guide management activities
Reports assess progress
Plans and reports are valuable for communication