The Zamboanga Consortium for Health Research and Development recently concluded its 3-day Strategic Planning Workshop on 10-12 April 2013 held at the Grand Astoria hotel, Zamboanga City. It was held to review the existing Vision, Mission, and Goals and their 5-Year Strategic Plan.

Several agencies attended the 3-day workshop, which included the Ateneo de Zamboanga University, Western Mindanao State University, Brent Hospital and Colleges, Universidad de Zamboanga, Katilingban para sa Kalambuan, Inc., City Health Office of Zamboanga, Department of Health, and the Department of Science and Technology IX among others. Day 1 started with the usual opening ceremonies led by no less than the consortium chair, Dr. Teresita Montaño.

Ms. Ellen San Juan facilitated the session with a lecture of the basics of strategic planning, in the afternoon, the involved agencies were asked by the facilitator Ms. Ellen San Juan to write their expectations from ZCHRD were and what were the things they could offer ZCHRD in Return. It was followed by a presentation of the consortium’s accomplishment from 2011-the 1st quarter of 2013. The first day ended with Ms. San Juan facilitating a visioning and goal setting for the consortium.

Day 2 and 3 focused on the SWOT analysis and retuning of the Vision, Mission, and Goals of the consortium. The workshop ended with the four committees of the consortium developing their respective committee strategic plans.

As a result, the new vision of the consortium is to be “A progressive, dynamic and responsible health research community committed toward the attainment of local, national, and global health goals” with “Develop an enabling and sustainable research environment among member institutions and other stakeholders for the promotion of evidence based health policies, programs and practices” as its new mission. The Goals of the consortium for the next 5-years will be to 1) Increase the number of generated research proposals endorsed for funding; 2) Facilitate research outputs for product development; 3) All member institutions will have accredited ERCs within 5 years; 4) Institutions in the provinces will be represented in ZCHRD in 5 years. It also plans to 5)Strengthen the commitment of the institutional heads; 6) Capacitate researchers through appropriate intervention (mentoring, training); 7) Establish a mechanism for recognition system for researchers; 8) To endorse research articles to peer reviewed and/or accredited journals; 9) To facilitate translation of research output into policies; 10) To disseminate research output (conferences, forums, etc.). 11) To expand the sources of funding; and 12) To facilitate the sharing of resources (human and infrastructure) among member institutions and other consortia.


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