Melinda Kusemachibi
The Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development held its strategic plan dissemination workshop on March 10, 2022 at Civic Centre Hall in Masvingo where they highlighted their 2021-2023 plans so as to improve implementation of the ministry’s programmes and projects.
In a speech read on his behalf by Director Strategic Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Vaidah Mashangwa, Permanent Secretary in the ministry Moses Mhike said the ministry aims to develop Its plans in line with the national vision 2030.
“The ministry successfully revealed and developed its strategic plan 2021-2023 and 2022 annual plan respectively from the 17th to the 23 of October 2021 in Kadoma in line with the national vision towards a prosperous and empowered upper middle income society by 2030 and the national development strategy 1(NDS1),” said Mashangwa.
She also said that the strategic and annual planning are very important as they help in providing a road map to the ministry.
“The strategic and annual planning are of paramount importance as they provide the ministry with a road map or a tool kit of strategies to achieve a refined vision and articulate the goals and milestones to be achieved that is outputs and incomes based on budget allocations from treasury by the key performance indicators,” she said.
Mashangwa also highlighted that it was the first time the ministry has done these strategic and annual plannings in the country.
“The ministry through the department of strategic works plan, monitoring and evaluation decided to conduct provincial dissemination workshops from the 2022 ministry strategic and annual planning to all province and district staff. This is the first of its kind for the ministry to conduct such annual plan dissemination workshops and it will be conducted in all the ten provinces.
“The overall aim of this workshop is to disseminate the revealed 2021-2023 strategic and 2022 annual plans to the province, district and ward levels. Its objectives are to equip all the ministry staff and provincial district and ward levels with relevant information to enable them have a clear understanding of the plans, to raise awareness about the strategic and annual concerns, targets and to promote purpose of unity within all arms of the ministry so as to move in one direction,” said Mashangwa.
Deputy Director of Ministry of Women Affairs Brain Guyo said they had many programmes in place for strategic planning.
“We are going to promote women access to safe markets in the all provinces and in Masvingo, we will start constructing markets next year and it will be funded by the Africa Development Bank,” said Guyo.
Strategic plan defines the Ministry vision, mission and goals that they want to achieve for the betterment of the country.
