INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
Council Working Group for the Elaboration of
the Draft Strategic Plan and the Draft Financial
Plan, 2008-2011
Document: WG-SP-FP-06/04
14 December 2005
English
Contribution from TDAG to the Working Group
From the Chairman of the TDAG Correspondence Group on Development Strategic Issues
at the Eleventh Meeting of the Telecommunication Development Advisory Group (TDAG)
held in Geneva, 12-16 December 2005
BDT DRAFT INPUT TO STRATEGIC PLAN 2008-2011
Introduction
The Council Working Group for the Elaboration of the Draft Strategic Plan, during its last
meeting on 27-28 October 2005, in accordance with its objective of determining a
methodology for the elaboration of the 2008 – 2011 strategic plan, prepared instructions
for the Sector Advisory Groups on contributions to the plan which are summarized as
follows:
1. Review the sections in the 2004-2007 Strategic Plan pertinent to their activities (i.e. Parts
II and III of the Annex to Resolution 71) in order to determine their continued relevance;
2. Following this review, propose a limited number of objectives (approx. 5) and a short
mission statement, for input to the 2008-2011 Strategic Plan;
3. Illustrate the link between these objectives and the Union’s outputs as defined in the
Results Based Budgeting (RBB) Framework1;
4. Identify 4 to 5 outputs that are of particularly high priority (with the exception of intersectoral outputs;
5. In addition, the Working Group solicits comments on the relevance of the strategic
orientations and goals of the 2004-2007 Strategic Plan (Part I of the Annex to Resolution
71).
In accordance with these instructions, the TDAG undertook a review of 2004-2007 strategic
plan for the development sector and propose the following input:
1 In Annex 4 of the Draft Budget of The Union for 2006-2007, outputs are defined as Sector or inter-sectoral products or
services representing the deliverables of a programme.
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1- Mission statement
To be the pre-eminent promoter and catalyst for telecommunications/ICT development and
the bridge between relevant partners involved in information and communication
technologies, with a view to fostering equitable and sustainable access to innovative and
affordable services, especially in developing and least developed countries, while, in the
same time, in developing synergies between relevant outcomes of the WSIS and programmes
and activities of ITU-D.
2- Objectives
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Objective 1
To organize and strengthen the cooperation among ITU-D Members and between ITU-D and
other stakeholders, taking into consideration the WSIS results.
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Objective 2
To foster an environment that promotes the development of telecommunications /ICT
networks and services, in particular in policy, legal and regulatory domains.
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Objective 3
To support identification of relevant projects to promote investment in
telecommunications/ICT related ventures, including through private and public partnerships
where applicable.
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Objective 4
To respond to the needs of the ITU-D Membership and others by disseminating relevant
information and know how by publishing and distributing materials in coordination and
collaboration as appropriate, with the other ITU Bureaux and the General Secretariat.
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Objective 5
To support telecommunications/ICT networks and services deployment and operations with a
view to fostering their secure, sustainable and affordable access and use by all segments of
society. Particular attention is to be given to the implementation of global and regional
initiatives and projects.
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Objective 6
To assist developing countries, particularly LDCs, and countries with economy in transition,
in building human, institutional and organizational capacity through training and
dissemination of pertinent Human Resource Management Development information for
managers and decision makers.
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Objective 7
To undertake economical, financial and technical studies on questions related to the
development of telecommunications/ICT, in conformity with the mandate of the ITU-D
Study Groups and communicate the results as appropriate.
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3- Outputs* and links with the objectives
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Statistics and
Telecommunication/ICT
Information
Special Programme for
Least Developed Countries
Human Capacity Building
Economics & Finance,
including costs and tariffs
e-Strategies,
e-Services/Applications
Technologies and
Telecommunication
Network Development
Regulatory Reform
TDAG
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Global & Regional
Initiatives
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Partnership and Promotion
Objective 1
Objective 2
Objective 3
Objective 4
Objective 5
Objective 6
Objective 7
Study Groups
World & Regional
Telecommunication
Development Conference
Mapping the objectives in the ITU-D outputs
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(*) The original 19 ITU-D outputs have been consolidated into 12 items in order to facilitate
readability
4- High priorities outputs
The ranking of the identified high priorities outputs is proposed as follows:
1-International Cooperation (WTDC and Conferences)
2-Programmes and assistance to members
3-Global and regional Initiatives
4-Study groups
N. B.The TDAG Correspondence Group on Strategic Group is open to all delegates from the
Member States and representative of ITU-D Sector Members. Please refer to ITU-D website:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/tdag/index.html
Email address: tdag_strategic_planning@itu.int
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