CASA undertakes periodic Participatory Strategic Planning (PSP) and Perspective Planning processes to make its programmes and institutional structure relevant and appropriate to the external changing demands and pressures.  This helps us to steer a people centered transformative developmental processes relevant to time. In this direction , every 10 years CASA undertakes a PSP process .    The  current Participatory strategic planning process has been initiated in CASA for the year 2012 to 2022. In the existing PSP exercise, 11 CASA staff have been selected as working group by the management. The entire process has been facilitated by an external facilitator, Mr. Binoy Acharya  from Unnati and his team.

On 20^th-21^st October 2011, a meeting of senior management of CASA including the Director, CASA along with some of the working group members was held  at CASA Headquarters in New Delhi, to update the Sr. management on the PSP process with regards to the scope, design and road map of the current PSP process.

(Mr. Binoy Acharya facilitating the PSP meeting at Delhi)

The PSP process ensured interaction with the working group of PSP and CDI (Capacity Development Initiative)  on conceptual understanding and skills on Participatory Strategic Planning through a National workshop in Shimla  few months ago.  The process has also included situational and context analysis consultations/workshops to assess the regional context in the overall national and global scenario and to indentify the emerging development issues and challenges. A total no of 5 workshops have been organized i.e. one each in South Zone, West Zone, North Zone, East Zone (Eastern States) and East Zone (North East India ) . The workshops have been helpful in understanding the issues which have emerged in the region and role of CASA in addressing those issues. The workshops have also captured the roles  of other stakeholders and intuitions promoted or supported by CASA, in addressing the existing and emerging development challenges.

(CASA staff at the National PSP meeting at Delhi)

After acquainting ourselves with the socio political, environmental trends having an impact on the organization and on the programme through the regional consultations, CASA will then assess capacities of the organization and map resources. CASA then will analyse the current strategies in view of existing opportunities and threats, strengths, weaknesses and strategic questions emerged for desired future.  Based on the strategic questions, alternative strategies and strategic choices would be derived to take up particular strategy for future.  The PSP report would come out by March 2012.

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