Defining your vision
Your vision is what enables you to stay anchored around the problem you’re trying to address and the impact you want to have. It provides a clear sense of how your solution ideas connect with the purpose of the work. It also enables you to clearly communicate the purpose of the work to others and get their support.
Vision statement
The vision statement outlines how you believe that your idea will contribute to tackling the problem.
HOW:
- Bring together your Local Action Group
- Ask each of them to think about the relationship between the problem and idea, and to write their own version of a vision statement using this format:
- If we [do X] then we will [achieve Y] which will [have Z impact on the world]
- Bring together the different versions of the vision statement, compare and contrast, and re-draft so that you have a singular vision for the idea based on the collective understanding
- The vision statement is iterative and live. As you learn more about your idea, you can shift it in service of the impact of you want to achieve
EXAMPLE:
As part of the ASToN Network, Niamey develop the following vision statement:
IF WE develop an online payment system for taxi and ‘vehicules de place’
THEN WE WILL better manage the licence system and streamline tax payment and collection
WHICH WILL improve public transport management and increase tax revenues.
