The fundamentals of a strategic plan include the core values, mission, and vision which represent the organizational identification (ID). Your Assignment this week requires you to develop the organizational ID for your chosen Capstone Project agency, organization, or community.

To prepare:

• Review Final Project: Developing a Strategic Plan –Part 1: The Fundamentals media in the Weekly Resources.
• To prepare for this Assignment, review your Discussion 2 post from Week 1. Research the core values, mission, and vision of your selected agency, organization, or community.
• In addition, consider the key stakeholders involved with the agency, both internally and externally, including other professions.
• Consider whether this agency addresses or supports the mental health and welfare or human rights of individuals.

By Day 7

The Assignment (3–4 pages):
For this Assignment, perform the following:

1. Identify and describe the core values of the agency.
   1. Discuss the degree to which those core values are aligned with advocacy, leadership, or social change.
   2. State how those core values contribute to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities.
2. Identify and describe the mission of the agency, organization, or community.
   1. Evaluate whether the mission statement is aligned with the core values of the agency, organization, etc.
   2. Describe whether the mission statement promotes advocacy, leadership, or social change.
   3. Discuss whether the mission statement provides evidence of how the agency/organization contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities.
3. Identify and describe the vision of the agency.
   1. Evaluate whether the vision is aligned with the core values of the agency, organization, etc.
   2. Describe whether the vision promotes advocacy, leadership, or social change.
   3. Discuss whether the vision provides evidence of how the agency/organization contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities.
4. Identify and describe key stakeholders involved with the agency.
   1. Discuss whether each stakeholder is internal or external to the agency/organization.
   2. Describe the role each stakeholder has in the organization (i.e., leadership, management, staff, recipient of services, etc.).
   3. Discuss how each stakeholder can be an essential element for gathering information to develop the strategic plan.

Support your Application Assignment, citing all resources in APA style, including those in the Learning Resources.

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A strategic plan refer to the document which contains organizational information such as organizational goals and objectives, the necessary tools and actions needed to achieve the goals and all the other vital elements developed while in planning exercise. When developing a strategic plan one should choose what to include in the plan depending on what you are trying to accomplish. In most case plans are driven by known issues in the community that needs to be addressed or instances where elected bodies needs to give directions (Neis et al, 2017). While others are initiated by staffs in their pursuit to maneuver how to prioritize conflicting needs.

For instance, United Nations (UN) organization is an international organization community. United Nations serves to preserve and enhance international peace and security among member states. The reason why I choose United Nation is because of the new core focus and the role of United Nations peace keeping operation. Moreover, these new doctrines focus to contribute on understanding of UN peace keeping. The peacekeeping doctrines describe UN operations as security and political based with an essential role in enhancing overall coordination and coherence. Advocacy is essential strategy in achieving international development programming change. Therefore, numerous aid agencies involve the process of designing and implementing advocacy programs to influence political programs and policy decisions, political climate, resource allocation, public agenda, and social practice and norms (Aoi et al 2017).

Use of advocacy in strategic plans helps in enlarging the base of support, connections and networks. In addition, it gives credit in numbers such that you can achieve a lot together than when you are alone. Advocacy helps people in understanding your opinions and point of view by ensuring information is delivered in an understandable manner. It also helps one in making choices on what to do and consider other available services. Advocacy gives a room for one to express their views effectively.

Work Cited

Aoi, Chiyuki, Cedric De Coning, and John Karlsrud. “Introduction: Addressing the emerging gap between concepts, doctrine, and practice in UN peacekeeping operations.” UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era. Routledge, 2017. 1-30.

Neis, Dyogo Felype, Maurício Fernandes Pereira, and Emerson Antonio Maccari. “Strategic planning process and organizational structure: Impacts, confluence and similarities.” BBR. Brazilian Business Review 14.5 (2017): 479-492.