Development of 2009/10 Committee Workplan

The committee has struggled in recent years on how best to move forward the goals of ICMA internationally separate and apart from the very successful contract work that the association does in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Today the committee took the bold step of changing the framework of its discussions on these issues and recrafted its workplan (pending approval from the ICMA Executive Board) to focus around six major topics. The first four: leadership, professional development and knowledge sharing come directly from the newly adopted ICMA Strategic Plan. The final two help to operationalize the other four: partnerships and communications and marketing.

This newly crafted workplan was informed significantly by the participation of our international partners at the meeting, who couldn't understand why we were so focused on process and not more focused on results. The new draft workplan is focused more than ever on results. See the draft workplan here (PDF).