The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) officially launched its Strategic Plan with a view to compiling the next decade of sports excellence during a Special General Meeting held at the Olympic House in Colombo.
The Sri Lankan Olympic task team has been at this for the past few months with 360-degree visualisation and have tried to plug in all aspects of how they are hoping to achieve this arduous task.
The programme was completed through sheer research. The committee interviewed all major federations and sport institutions such as the Sri Lanka Anti-Doping Agency, and the Institute of Sport Medicine Unit, others and arrived at conclusions about how they operate. In that manner, they get a full understanding of how things work. Even the Ministry of Sports was analysed.
The task heads of the programme were, consultant Professor Emmanuel Bayle while the team was headed by the NOCSL Secretary General Maxwell de Silva and Professor B. L. H. Perera. Explaining what and how they achieved this phase of the programme, Prof. Perera said: “The Strategic Plan is a plan that any organisation or country may compile very ambitiously.”
“The NOCSL set up this strategic plan to reach certain levels for the future. Yet, without a plan, we cannot achieve this on a yearly basis and make a real forecast. Now the Strategic Plan of the NOCSL will be for the next 10 years, to be precise 2032.”
The Programme Chief said how they are aiming to reach their set goal. One cannot reach the desired goal haphazardly. He explained. “First of all, what we have done as a team is to study where we stand today. From that point onwards we have drawn up a plan for the year 2032 and that will be reached at various levels.”
“It is a sports community in general – the athletes, federations and even the Ministry of Sports. We are connected by means like funding, advising, and providing leadership for sports.”
“We have looked at where are perched strength-wise. We have listed what our strengths are. In the same way, we have probed into our operational weaknesses also.”
“He went on to explain that they also probed the sub-organisations. They are not very close to the NOC SL’s system, but within the scope. He said: “We conducted a seminar for them. In that seminar, we did a very thorough investigation on four points – the strengths, the weaknesses,opportunities and threats like before.”
“Gathering all this information, we have now drafted the general frame and it would help us to move forward. The general framework with five main pillars. It’s called the main frame of strategic thinking.” Finally, Prof Perera explained that this was a composite plan aiming to develop the sports community through the next decade.
Chris Dhambarage
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