ABSTRACT
The secretariat will need to determine activities to be undertaken in developing and operating the strategy, as well as identify responsibilities, capabilities and resources needed, and their timing. A generic strategy ‘calendar’ can be scheduled, based around existing component calendars, such as those of government (budgetary) processes and other key strategies. This could cover, for example, regular ‘state of the environment and livelihoods’ reports, major NSDS review meetings and annual national conferences. Threeto five-year cyclical calendars have commonly been used (although the cyclical element may not subsequently have taken place in practice). Specific targets related to the NSDS objectives and major programmes would then be inserted into the first regular ‘cycle’; for example, passing a new law, launching a new programme or removing a specific causal problem.
