NZAF Trust Board Chair Alastair Cameron The New Zealand Aids Foundation's strategic plan for the next five years has been delayed, which the Trust Board Chair says is simply because the board wants to get it right. A period of consultation was held from December until February on the document, which contained three key outcomes for the NZAF to seek to achieve from 2010 to 2015. The first was to prevent HIV transmission in New Zealand, the second was to assist all people living with HIV in New Zealand to achieve and sustain the best possible health and wellbeing, and the third was for the NZAF to be "a knowledge-driven, sustainable, respected, quality focused organisation". NZAF Trust Board Chair Alastair Cameron says one of the crucial pieces of feedback the board received was that the plan was very light in detail. "And that's a fair piece of feedback. So what we've been doing is spending quite a lot of time getting a bit more specific in terms of the outcomes and in a sense, how we're going to get to those outcomes," Cameron says. "Our initial target was to have the whole thing done by this June - and we're not going to meet that. But that's ok. The foundation's operations can continue without the Strategic Plan. We need to get it right." The board will hold its next face-to-face meeting in August, where Cameron says it hopes to firm-up the redrafted content of the plan. "And at that point it will have changed quite a lot, so I think we'll have to send it back out to the people who provided feedback on it in the first place." Cameron says, overall, during the consultation period, the board received incredibly useful feedback from people who had obviously thought long and hard about their comments. "We would have liked to have heard from more people. And there are lots of reasons why we may not have, but at any point if anyone wants to see the next plan when it comes out and provide feedback, then we'd love to hear it."
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Monday, 21st June 2010 - 11:46am