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Innocent Chukwuemeka Chukwuma Empowerment Foundation (ICCEF) recently in Lagos, held a 2-day strategic action planning workshop to shape its future work, create plans to achieve goals.
The Action Planning Workshop, facilitated by Habiba Balogun Consulting brought together management team, staff, and implementing partners to shape the future of ICCEF.
For organizations like ICCEF, stakeholders present at the event believe that collaboration in strategic planning can lead to more effective execution and alignment across teams.
Speaking with Daily Champion, Executive Chairman of ICCEF, Mrs. Josephine Effah-Chukwuma said strategy was very important to organisations, stressing that ICCEF is just two and half years.
Started January 2023, she said, this is the right time to think the direction to go in line with the vision and mission.
Effah-Chukwuma noted that, “ICCEF is all about empowering young people and women to ensure they are inclusively contributing to their communities, therein lies the importance of this planning.
“It is different from you just being in the office as Executive Chairman, being a youth focused organisation, I have a lot of young people working with me. Yes we are rubbing minds. I have an active board we interface with, but there is nothing like getting partners come in. Is not that they are deciding for the organisation, but change is constant in life and things are constantly changing.
“This two days strategic planning, for me as the executive chair of ICCEF is an eye opener. The discussions here was very detailed, very enriching. The decisions arrived at is something I commit that we will take to the board and we will try to implement them,” she said.
Speaking on the foundation’s approach to collaboration with other organisations, Mrs. Effah-Chukwuma said ICCEF as an organization has collaboration as its strategy.
She said, “No man can do it alone, ICCEF cannot do it alone. There are other organisations in existence before ICCEF, ICCEF is not coming with anything new, but the strategy is coming in with.
“We believe strongly in collaboration and partnership projects, not just with other civil society organisations, but with government including agencies, faith based organisations, associations. Collaboration is the way to go. Partnership is the way to go for ICCEF, it’s a key strategy in trying to arrive at our vision.
Mrs. Effah-Chukwuma further noted that ICCEF has five program areas including youth tech and innovation, community engagement support, services.
She said, “Being a legacy organisation in memory of a man, it tells us that anyone who knows Innocent knows where his passion was.
“He was passionate about so many things, but one area he was passionate about towards the end of his life was youth empowerment.
“When you are talking about youth empowerment, you are also talking about youth in technology. One region that is sort of behind when you talk of youth and tech and innovation, is the South- East and South-South. So for that particular program, our focus in the two years of our existence is how to empower youths in the South East and South-South in tech, for them to be entrepreneurial, for them to be gainfully employed.
“Because when you train youths in tech, two things happen, either they are quick to get jobs or they become entrepreneurial, so that is one key focus of ICCEF. Rising from this confidence, I am looking forward to where ICCEF will be in the next three to five years.
“I see ICCEF in the next three to five years being a household name, as one of the organisations that empowers youths and young women.
“Young women should not be seen as second class citizens. We want to see young women contributing their quota, young women in l
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