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Strategic plan

Meaning in public administration, with examples

nounCommon term

In public administration, strategic plan means: A formal document that sets out an organization's mission, long-term goals, priorities and targets for several years, and explains how progress will be measured.

In Turkish: stratejik plan

How it is used

Public bodies prepare, adopt, review and update strategic plans, usually for three to five years, and link their budgets and performance indicators to them. In Turkey public administrations are legally required to prepare five-year strategic plans.

Example sentences

  1. Our strategic plan for 2025–2029 sets five main goals, including faster processing of applications.

  2. Every project in the budget must be linked to a target in the strategic plan.

Common collocations

  • prepare a strategic plan
  • five-year strategic plan
  • strategic plan targets
  • review the strategic plan
  • performance indicatorA measurable value used to show how well an organization, programme or service is achieving its objectives, such as waiting times, cost per case or satisfaction rates.
  • public policyThe decisions, plans and actions a government adopts to deal with a public problem, such as unemployment, air pollution or housing; also the field that studies them.
  • implementTo put a decision, plan, law or policy into practice so that it actually takes effect.
  • budgetA plan showing how much money a government or public body expects to receive and how it will spend that money over a set period, usually one year.

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