Strategic Plan Project

By Haley Millet, MPH and Director, HEED Uganda

Program Manger, Julius, sharing about the growing local ownership 

of the projects at the strategic planning staff retreat.

Last year, HEED began a partnership with Cross International, who has mentored HEED and granted funds to roll out our 5-year strategic plan and creation of a monitoring, learning, and evaluation system (called MLE). These tools will help us to clearly communicate about our vision and mission, identify measurable objectives, and establish rhythms for gathering information that will help us make better decisions and demonstrate impact. 

Through strategic planning and effective MLE the US board, the Ugandan board, Village Advisory Committee and Uganda staff can all work together to accomplish our mission: to see that children and their families thrive and experience fullness of life for generations. Our approach focuses on creating impact at two different levels: the Ebenezer Schools Level, and the larger Community Level which includes Kyakitanga and four adjacent villages.

We pursue impact through our “five pathways to transformation”: Education, Income Generation, Water/Hygiene/Sanitation (known as WASH), Spiritual Growth, and Health Services. Our 5-year strategic plan details goals in each of the pathways.

Our monitoring, learning and evaluation system will tell us if we are hitting our targets by collecting  meaningful, pragmatic data about progress towards objectives that will better inform decision making, resource allocation, and communicating about the changes that occur in Kyakitanga as a result of HEED activities. Check out “What is it like to live where HEED serves?" to see results of our baseline survey. 

Kelly Miller and Zach Oles of Cross International visited HEED in Oct 2019