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Strategic planning consultancy in Sierra Leone

Set a clear direction, agree your priorities and turn them into a plan your team can follow.

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A strategy people actually use

Many organisations have a strategy document that sits on a shelf. A useful strategy is short, clear about priorities, linked to budgets and owned by the people who have to deliver it. We help you build one.

What we do

  • Review where the organisation is now: performance, finances, market, risks and capacity.
  • Run workshops with your board and management team to agree vision, goals and priorities.
  • Turn priorities into an action plan with owners, milestones and measures.
  • Link the plan to your budget and financial forecasts.
  • Set up simple ways to track progress and review the plan each year.

For NGOs and public bodies

For NGOs, councils and donor-funded programmes, we can align your strategy with funder requirements and national development priorities, and set out the results framework funders will expect to see.

Who it's for

  • Boards and leadership teams at businesses, NGOs, councils and financial institutions starting a new planning cycle, or whose current plan is no longer working.

What you receive

  • A short review of performance, finances, market, risks and capacity
  • Facilitated workshops with your board and management team
  • A concise strategy document with clear priorities
  • An action plan with owners, milestones and measures
  • A budget and forecast that match the plan
  • A simple way to track progress, and a review after the first year

Planning in a Sierra Leone context

A useful strategy in Sierra Leone has to deal with real conditions: currency movements, changes in tax and regulation, funding cycles, the availability of skilled staff and the pace of digital change. For NGOs, councils and donor-funded programmes it also has to line up with funder requirements and national development priorities.

We keep the plan short and practical, tie it to a budget prepared with our accountants, and set out how progress will be measured. Read more in our article Business strategic planning: charting a path to sustainable success.

Simple to start, clear all the way through

Scope and fees are agreed in writing before work starts.

1

Scoping call

Scoping call to agree the scope and who should be involved.

2

Review

Review of documents, data and interviews with key people.

3

Workshops

Workshops to agree direction and priorities.

4

Plan and follow-up

Plan and follow-up, with the written plan and a review after it has been in use.

Frequently asked questions

How long does a strategic planning process take?

For most organisations, a few weeks from the first review to an agreed plan, depending on how many people need to be involved.

Who should be involved?

Usually the board and senior management, with input from staff and, where useful, key funders or customers. We help you decide who to involve.

Can you help us write a strategy for funders?

Yes. We can align your strategy with funder requirements and set out the results framework funders expect to see.

Will the plan include a budget?

Yes. We link priorities to a budget and financial forecast, prepared with our accountancy team, so the plan is affordable.

What happens after the plan is agreed?

We can review progress with you after the plan has been in use and help adjust it. Many clients ask us to run a short annual review.

The SLONEC team at a SLONEC corporate training programme in Freetown

Talk to the people who will do the work

The SLONEC Consultancy team

Freetown · 1 Hannah Benka-Coker Street

Your work is handled by the SLONEC Consultancy team at our Freetown office and overseen by Ishmael Bangura, who founded SLONEC in 2023 and is a professional accountant. When you get in touch, we tell you who your day-to-day contact will be and how to reach them, and we agree the scope and fee in writing before any work starts.

Ready to talk?

Tell us what you need, or book a call to talk it through first.