{"id":45,"date":"2015-07-02T20:01:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T20:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ppag-gh.org\/ppag\/index.php\/2015\/07\/02\/ppag-vision-statement\/"},"modified":"2015-07-02T20:01:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T20:01:55","slug":"ppag-vision-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ppag-gh.org\/nu\/ppag-vision-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"PPAG VISION STATEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Joseph Amuzu, Executive Director, PPAG <\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. President, Council Members, Ladies and Gentlemen
I thank God for this day. In the 1990s there about, as a young and inexperienced public health physician in Kumasi, I dreamt of leading this organization even at that time. Since then, I have been following the progress of PPAG till today.\u00a0 I again came in close contact with PPAG when I was the HIV Team Leader at USAID in 1998 and quite recently our paths crossed as the Director of Policy and Planning at the Ghana AIDS Commission.<\/p>\n

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I thank the President and Council that we have reached this point today as I am being introduced as the new Executive Director of PPAG. I have high hopes for this organization and I have high hopes for myself.<\/p>\n

Let me begin my vision statement by saying;<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I share the Vision of the Organization:<\/strong> That Ghana should become a country in which the youth are well informed about Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and confidently exercise their right of choice of SRH services without fear and \/or any obstacle from any sector of the society.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I share in our Mission and Values: <\/strong>The Association shall provide the youth with the knowledge and means of exercising their basic rights to decide freely and responsibly on their SRH as a means of improving the quality of life of Ghanaians.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The values <\/strong>
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ownership and Leadership of the Governing Council and Management Team
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Team Spirit
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Youth Friendliness
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Freedom of Choice and Expression
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Integrity
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Accountability
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Transparency
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gender Sensitive
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Effective and Strategic Partnership
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Community Participation <\/p>\n

MY OWN VISION <\/strong>
I would uphold and promote these values in the entire organization to ensure that the vision of PPAG – the BEST in the industry<\/strong> is achieved. How do we achieve this?<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Uphold the image of the company at all times<\/strong>
By representing the company very well at all fora, ensuring our decency; increase contribution to international and national debates and discussions; defending our values, going the extra mile by being proactive in terms of delivering quality to the people of Ghana, particularly young boys and girls ; elevating the position and role of young people in the organization \u2013ensuring that youth participation\u00a0 is meaningful, result oriented and makes the desired impact; awaken the organization\u2019s position and responsibilities to\u00a0 its constituencies and ensure that we are recognized for our role and contribution to Ghana\u2019s attainment of the MDGs, national population and other health goals.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rebuild and rebrand <\/strong>
To achieve a good image of PPAG will require the urgent need to rebuild and rebrand the organization to respond to and reflect the changing donor requirements and demand such as accountability, results \u2013focused, dynamism, progressiveness, sustainability etc; improving the service delivery function of the organization by ensuring that the clinics and outreach outlets are well positioned to function actively.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Strengthening leadership and management structures<\/strong>
There is the urgent need to strengthen leadership and management structures, functions and productivity and building new partnerships, strengthening existing ones and reviving broken ones.<\/p>\n

Volunteer-staff relationship needs to be improved; <\/strong>we need to work with our Volunteers to attract more and quality Volunteers to support the organization; ensuring respect for Council Members; Maintaining at all times cordial relationship with Council; better communication ; adequate and prompt preparations from Council meeting ; holding regular Council meetings and being accountable to Council. And finally, working to re-position PPAG as the first priority of donors, clients and key stakeholders.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Inspire and improve upon discipline and fairness<\/strong><\/p>\n

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5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Restructuring <\/strong>
The whole organization will need a major restructuring to make it a learning organization and more efficient. A learning organization means that we should have an organization\u00a0 which is able to adopt and compete at low cost through learning; that we work in an environment that promotes further development of knowledge and skill of employees; consolidating PPAG\u2019s position within IPPF as one of the strongest Learning Centres of Excellence. We need to work smart. <\/p>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Strategic Planning <\/strong>
At the heart of the restructuring will be the development of a strategic plan.\u00a0 A new strategic plan that will look at performance management; define a new organizational structure that will help us work for results; a review of the pay system with the aim of ensuring quality, fairness and rewards for hard work and result; to be competitive and attract more talents.\u00a0 Management and staff remuneration has to improve so as to retain staff. In this regard, greater attention will be paid to resource mobilization and performance management.<\/p>\n

As part of the process, I hope to work with Council to restore the three Directorates which existed some years ago and to create a new Business Development Unit which will drive the resource mobilization aspect of the organization.<\/p>\n

Finally, I proposed a retreat with my management team as early as possible to have frank discussion on how we work together, to get by-in for my vision and thrash out any existing challenges.<\/p>\n

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