• • functions and performs in certain key organisation and management processes across the chapters and at the Regional Secretariat as one corporate family; financial organisation and management both at Regional Secretariat and Chapter level capacity building of the MISA governance structures to monitor and evaluate key functions such as financial management and performance monitoring and evaluation. • The key change that was agreed by the Regional Governing Council in September 2008 entails that: • All MISA programs and activities should put MISA core values at the centre of all programming and governance processes; this means MISA will have to live the values it preaches and walk the talk with chapters and other stakeholders; any programming and governance decision will have to be informed by the extent to which such a decision • 76 advances media freedom and freedom of expression; this brings about a decision making rule of thumb for all management and governance structures where decision making will be based on the extent that any decision will put more value, greater expression and entrenchment of the core values of media freedom and freedom of expression. MISA should completely re-oriented MISA programming process to begin reflecting on national priorities making MISA highly relevant at national level. All programs than should being synchronized and coordinated at regional level for synergies and regional positioning of MISA to be achieved. It was also resolved that MISA redefine the role and functions of the RS to reflect focus on coordination, quality assurance and compliance, accountability and capacity building of chapters; inevitably the major change will be that the present RS structure will need to be reconfigured to take a holistic approach in providing programme support” to chapters. “extension The leadership of the change process will rest with the RS management team and the RGC who will articulate and agree on the foregoing as the major change areas to be focused on, the specific expected changes and approve the action plan to achieve the desired changes in the remainder of SPP 2. It was also resolved that all MISA documents should be aligned and harmonised. A final draft of the Corporate Governance Manual was released in November 2008 and this was presented to the board at a meeting on November 9, 2008 in Windhoek. The OD consultant has asked the TFB to take position on key issues and then such positions can be incorporated into the corporate governance manual as well as be effected formally as amendments to the Education and Production deed of trust where necessary, the MISA Constitution or the operational policies and procedures. Third Strategic Partnership Plan (SPPIII) MISA has commenced work on the development of a new strategic plan that is to be ushered in when its current funding agreement with its basket funding partners end in March 2010. It is foreseen that the organisation will re-focus its programming in line with the priorities identified through its membership, and in line with media development needs as they have been identified through monitoring of the media freedom and freedom of expression environment in SADC. Performance Management System In 2008-2009 the regional secretariat implemented and streamlined its 77