Terms of reference

At its 2005 session, the ITU Council decided to establish a working group  to elaborate a draft Strategic Plan and a draft Financial Plan for consideration by Council 2006 and presentation by Council to PP-06. The Working Group, open to Member States and, when addressing the draft Strategic Plan, to Sector Members, has the following terms of reference:

a)           to identify, with the assistance of the Secretary-General and the Directors of the Bureaux, sources of information to be used in the development of the draft Plans, some of which are outlined in Annex A to Resolution 1238, and to take into account the discussion of this issue at the 2005 session of the Council;

b)           to develop a uniform structure and format of the draft Strategic Plan and the draft Financial Plan, based on the RBB framework, and including options for achieving a balance between income and expenditure in the draft Financial Plan;

c)           to develop drafts of the strategic and financial plans for presentation to the 2006 session of the Council, the first version of which should be posted on the ITU website no later than 1 February 2006;

d)           to conduct, as required for consideration of the draft Financial Plan, a review of Resolution 91 with the assistance of the Secretary-General and the Directors of the Bureaux.

Continuation of the activities of the Working Group

Council at its 2006 session by Resolution 1260 decided to continue the activities of the working group on the elaboration of the draft Strategic Plan and the draft Financial Plan for 2008-2011 in order to prepare a report for the final meeting of the 2006 Council just prior to PP-06 on the Draft Financial Plan for 2008-2011, taking into account inter alia Document C06/DT/11, as well as the revision of Resolution 91 (Minneapolis, 1998).

Participation
The working group is open to open to Member States of the Union and, when addressing the draft Strategic Plan, to Sector Members of the Union.

Chairmanship
The Group is chaired by M.-O. Beau (France)

Meetings:

Sixth Meeting: 14 and 15 September 2006 (ref. Invitation letter Circular letter 123 - 3 August 2006)

Fifth Meeting: 27 and 28 June 2006 (ref. Invitation letter Circular letter 109 - 3 May 2006)

Fourth Meeting: 25 April 2006

Third Meeting: 18 April 2006 (ref. Invitation letter Circular letter 102 - 28 March 2006)

Second Meeting: 30-31 January 2006 (ref. Invitation letter DM-05/1237 - 30.11.2005)

First meeting: 27-28 October 2005 (ref. Invitation letter DM-05/1216 - 23.9.2005)

Documentation

Information and links on current and previous strategic planning activities can be found at: http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/stratplan/index.html