Guide to Operational Planning for Local Community Organizations

This article is about how local community organizations – such as those of farmers or indigenous peoples – prepare their operational plans. In doing operational planning, an organization maps out the specific activities, resources, and personnel needed to achieve its objectives or to complete a project, within a given timeframe of one year or less. This paper is written primarily as a working guide for leaders and facilitators of local organizations.

Founded in 1979, ANGOC is a regional association of national and regional networks of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Asia, actively engaged in food security, agrarian reform, sustainable agriculture, participatory governance, and rural development.