The document provides guidelines for developing country strategy papers, work plans, and planning national inception workshops for an EU-funded project in developing countries. It outlines that the country strategy paper should include: an analysis of the current situation; key issues to address; how the project can help within its goals and objectives; and a work plan with activities, timelines, resources and responsibilities. It also provides a template for the work plan. Finally, it describes planning a national inception workshop to finalize the strategy paper through wider consultation, forging partnerships, and seeking comments on the work plan.

1. General Guidelines for developing
country strategy papers and work
plan & planning for national
planning workshop

2. • Country Strategy papers
• Work Plan
• Planning for national inception workshop

3. COUNTRY STRATEGY PAPER (CSP)

4. What is CSP
Background paper (review and finalization
stage)
+
Strategy for the project (includes Goal,
Objectives, activities, time and resource
planning, out put, outcomes, responsibility)

5. Country Strategy Paper
• Current situation
• Analysis of the situation
• Key issues requires attention
• General guidelines and existing policies of the
government and ministries
• How AIT-EU SRI Project within its set goals and
objective could be utilized to address
identified issues

6. How
• Developing goal
• Developing objectifies
• How these objectives will be met
• Work plan development
• Resource planning
• What outputs and outcomes are expected
• Timelines
• Log frames
• How communication and admin will interact and
work with working provincial team

7. Who and When
• Time line (expected to be completed by
national inception planning workshop)
• Country Coordinators

8. WORK PLAN

9. Work Plan
• Template provided
• Key Activities as per project document
– Presented by Dr. Abha in detail yesterday and by
Jan as summary
– Broad heading of activities
• Sub-heading

10. Activities
Semester 1 Semester 2
Output
Budget/resources* Person
responsible
Months
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1. National
Planning
and
Inception
workshop
(a) CN
preparation
and
invitation to
country
partners
(b) Logistics
organization

11. • 1) Development of CSP
– Finalization of the background paper
– Consultation with government and aligning the
work plan development to the existing
government policies
2) Organization of national inception workshop
3)Formation of national steering committee
4) PMU and LMU setting, identifying LMU
coordinators/ Selection of villages

12. 2) Setting communication and logistical network
within PMU/LMU (with links with project
partners nationally and regionally)
3) Supporting PRA
4) Participating in Regional TOT (AIT)
5) Baseline survey
6) Logistical Preparation for the CFPAR (field,
district trainers, timing and other logistics)

13. NATIONAL INCEPTION WORKSHOP

14. National Inception & Planning
Workshop
• A similar exercise at country level
• Wider consultation, forging alliances with other
ongoing work, agencies, seeking comments on
the work plan (leading to finalization and
reporting as CSP)
• When?
• Who would participate?
• What would be the duration?
• PCU will be represented
• When a concept note available for consultation

15. Each country group would prepare these details
and present it back to the everyone?
How much time needed??
Project partners would move around the tables
to support each team