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PURPLE Executive Board endorses new Work Plan 2017-19

Feb 20, 2017

On 30 January PURPLE’s Executive Board endorsed PURPLE’s Draft Work Plan for the next three years, pending approval by PURPLE’s General Assembly in June.

The Work Plan presents the strategic priorities (Priority Areas) of PURPLE and outlines the core activities (Key Actions) PURPLE intends to focus on in the years 2017 to 2019. The five priority areas are:

  1. PURPLE AISBL arrangements

  2. Promoting the PURPLE profile

  3. EU Funding and Funded Projects

  4. Influencing / Shaping EU and other relevant policy development

  5. Membership and support

Executive Board members hope and expect that a longer-term plan than previously used will provide greater structure, certainty and visibility to the network, both internally and externally.

The same Executive Board meeting also endorsed PURPLE’s Draft Annual Activity Plan for 2017. This marks a departure in the way that network planning is done.  Whilst the Work Plan is an overarching plan for the years 2017 to 2019 and gives strategic direction to the work of PURPLE, Annual Activity Plans will be produced for each year of the Work Plan, are more detailed and act in essence as yearly work programmes. It is intended that the Work Plan and Annual Activity Plan work together and reflect one another.

The Annual Activity Plan provides much greater detail on key actions for each year, including timescales – where appropriate, responsibilities and measures of achievement.

Having the Executive Board endorse the Draft Annual Activity Plan at this point ensures that PURPLE has an interim plan of action pending formal sign-off of both the Work Plan 2017-19 and the Annual Activity Plan 2017 at the next PURPLE General Assembly.

The next step in the process will be to revisit the division of labour so that it can be agreed in June exactly who will take lead responsibility for doing what  For the time being, the lead responsibilities for Priority Areas and Key Actions are shown  in the draft plans as they were in 2016. The Working Group and Lobby Group will be looking at this in late March and a revised and updated version should be ready soon so that work can continue uninterrupted over the forthcoming months pending final sign-off.

PURPLE members can access the Draft versions of the Work Plan 2017-19 and Annual Activity Plan 2017in the Executive Board meeting section of the member restricted area of the website.