2.3 Strategy Analysis

Summary: Discusses the development of effective strategies to achieve project objectives, considering various approaches and tactics to address identified problems.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the concept of strategy analysis and its importance in project planning.
2. Learn how to develop effective strategies for achieving project objectives.
3. Recognize the relationship between strategy analysis, problem-solving, and project outcomes.

Strategy analysis is the final stage in creating the main scheme of the project. As mentioned in the previous stages, project resources are limited, so only a contribution can be made to the solution of the main problem. On the other hand, while providing this contribution, it will not be possible to fulfill all of the sub-goals. For this reason, one or more of the sub-targets will have to be excluded from the target analysis.

When determining your strategy, you need to analyze which goals you can achieve effectively, efficiently and accurately. Identifying the methodology with the lowest risk will result in fewer problems in the implementation phase.

Other additional issues that you should pay attention to may vary depending on the content of the grant program. It is important to determine the strategy that will maximize the sustainability of the objectives and the activities determined accordingly, promote green economy and climate change awareness, gender equality, positive impact on the disadvantaged, synergy and capacity development that can be created among the stakeholders.

In the strategy analysis

• You have limited resources.
• Therefore, you need to choose a strategy to determine the problem that you want to tackle.
• Choose 1 or more than 1 objectives as you see fit.

You can tackle with the remaining problems in other projects.

• Analysis the identified (potential) objectives in relation to a set of ‘feasibility’ criteria
• Selects an appropriate strategy for project implementation,
• Decision is based on policy priorities, budget, human resources, urgency, social acceptability, etc.

Part of the objective tree is possibly not a part of the project but should be considered in the analysis of assumptions and risk.