African Diaspora Nation3 Year Strategic plan – 2015 - 2018
Overview• Vision, Mission and Approach• 3 year Shaping Plan• Programs and Events• 2015 Priorities
ADN 3 Year Shaping Plan
Outdooring /Awareness Relationship and Partnership Development Enrollment and OrientationAdvocacyTechnology and Digital Media StrategyMonitoring and Evaluation StrategyOrganizational Capability DevelopmentEnrollment
Enrollment and OrientationUN Consultative StatusEvent Planning – Global Conferences and Symposia Educational and Cultural Exchange ProgramHeritage and Investment ToursReignite Agriculture ProgramHolistic Development Think TankCenter for African Diaspora ReconciliationPeace and Reconciliation Life-Cycle Management Program
Resettlement Support ProgramPrivate Equity and Angel Investment Partnership in focal areas of Infrastructure, Agriculture, Energy, Education, Health and Family building
2015
2016
2017
ABOUT ADN
OUR VISION A conscious, reconciled and peaceful Global African Union prosperous in body, soul and spirit - in a manner that is physically observable, measurable and harmonious with all external actors.
Our MissionCitizen engagement and empowerment for educational, socio-economic and spiritual upliftment of the Global African Union and beyond.
Our Agreements• Africa needs a holistic transformational up- shift from the Status-quo. The status-
quo in the global African Union is unacceptable. We agree• The global African identity needs to be re-ignited. Africans and people of African
descent need to find their truest selves and live it out. We Agree• Africans and people of African Descent must reconcile and re-connect. We agree• We need to identity the strongholds and dividing walls that inhibit meaningful
connections between various constituents of the global african diaspora; we must not only identity the mental strongholds/dividing walls but tear them down. We agree
• A renewed Global African Identity requires a new African mind set. We agree• Africans and people of African descent must reconcile, organize, mobilize,
educate and rebuild their native land. We agree• Africans and people of African descent have a unique contribution to make to
humanity. Humanity cannot be whole until Africa organizes in wholeness and integrity. We agree
Our Core Values
• Values without action is dead• A re-ignited Global African Identity requires a re-awakened African Consciousness. We value all
life journeys into truth and consciousness so far as we journey in search of truth.• The global African identity must reflect purpose, vocational clarity, relational integrity and
community impact. We value a sisterhood and brotherhood of people who are on a journey of self-discovery and purpose.
• We believe in the uniqueness of people, the equality of people and the necessity of interdependence.
• We believe high performance organizations are founded on love for God and our fellow men.• We believe in individual, community and generational responsibility. By all means individuals,
communities, nations and humanity must take stock of causes of deviations and falls, but we must never, ever, ever shy away from owning the responsibility to get back up or get back on course.
• We believe in the necessity of consistent fellowship within the global African constituency and also with organizations that share our ideals
• We believe a mature capacity for peace building and development by individuals results in the highest level of fulfillment on earth
Our ProgramsVehicles of Transformation (Strategic)
• Advocacy Program• Baseline Program• ADN Love Invasion Program• Heritage Tours• ADN Change Agents Program• Fundraising Program• Conferences, Workshops and Event
Management
• Community Empowerment and Development
• Resettlement Support Services• Center for African Diaspora
Reconciliation & Unity
Diverse representation from the Global African Union is a key element of these programs. Unique experiences enrich perspectives so ADN shoots for 360 degrees perspective from various constituencies of the Global African Union in the execution of its programs
Advocacy ProgramStrategic Themes to Drum up Awareness
• Petition identifiable beneficiaries of transatlantic slave trade for one time round trip expenses for descendants of victims who want to visit Africa by air.
• Petition African Union for African Diaspora Passport to facilitate easier movement of people.
• Petition national legislatures for constitutional reforms that ensure that the African diaspora nationals have a proportional voice in African Affairs.
• Petition and lobby for a fully functional African Union with proportional representation from the African Diaspora.
• Petition for a reform of African educational curriculum to increase awareness of global and spiritual brotherhood/sisterhood of people African descent and lovers of Africa.
Baseline ProgramThe ADN Community Baseline Program serves as the key Initiator of ADN’s workflow for community and cultural transformation knows as the ADN way. Program will have the following features• Program Manager• Video documentation of the status quo in pilot communities• Documentary must capture the status quo in families i.e. Personal enrichment routines, household economy;
mental, spiritual, economic and environmental health of community. Documentary must provide holistic evaluation of persons, mindsets and systems.
• Identification of key stakeholders• Not be symptomatic in focus but root cause focused and proffer holistic solutions based on the assessment of
the root cause• The ADN Baseline Program produces the Documentary deliverables which serve as an input into the ADN
love invasion program • Serve as input to ADN talk show content
ADN Love Invasion Program
The ADN Love Invasion Program is the next step in the ADN workflow after the Baseline Program delivers the Community Baseline documentary. The program has the following features:• Program Manager• Community Impact Project concept development• Project phase gate decision analysis package
development• Project Managers
ADN Fundraising Program
The ADN fundraising program is a critical organizational support service to enlist partner support for all ADN programs and Love Invasion Projects. This division shall be global in reach and distinct for transparency and accountability. This division shall have the following features:• Fundraising and Partner Engagement Manager• Partner fulfilment and Life-cycle Management
focus
ADN Change Agents Program
This is an action oriented experiential learning and mentorship program that identifies, grooms and supports change agents in communities which have been subjects of the ADN baseline program. This program is holistic in focus with the following end goals for the individuals:• A strong sense of personal identity• Clarity of purpose• Vocational Clarity• Relational Integrity• Culture Unearther and Love Invasion Ambassador
AND Heritage Tours
The focus of the ADN heritage tours program is to share history of Africans and People of African descent, re-ignite identity, clarify purpose, unearth the culture of love and transform families, communities and nations. The heritage tours program shall have the following features and ends:• Serve as a feeder to volunteer jobs which are
defined by the Love Invasion Project Managers• Program Manager• Fund the overhead of the Fundraising Program
Economic Empowerment and Development
Working collaboratively with the Love Invasion program, the focus of this division is to help incubate business which leverage the natural resources, human resources and institutional resources of the community for the service of the community and global markets utilizing global best practices and standards. This team shall be abreast with international best practices and quality standards so businesses are coached on productions processes, workflows, records and quality assurance and control measures to allow easy progression to international export operations.
ADN Resettlement Support Network
The ADN Resettlement Support network will focus on influencing government policies with the view of facilitating African Diaspora Inclusion and integration into national and community development. The ADN resettlement support program will seek out partners in real estate, industry, academia and the legislature to accomplish its objectives
Center for African Diaspora Reconciliation
The Center for African Diaspora Reconciliation is a think tank which primarily focuses in issues which inhibit meaningful connections between Africans, people of African descent and lovers of Africa. The think thank will courageously unearth these issues which will be further delivered as content for ADN facilitated Talk Shows and Reconciliation Roadshows
ADN TACTICAL PLANSFrom a Tactical Perspective, ADN will undertake a phased deployment of its programs over a 3 year period as shown below
Outdooring /Awareness Relationship and Partnership Development Enrollment and OrientationAdvocacyTechnology and Digital Media StrategyMonitoring and Evaluation StrategyOrganizational Capability DevelopmentEnrollment
Enrollment and OrientationUN Consultative StatusEvent Planning – Global Conferences and Symposia Educational and Cultural Exchange ProgramHeritage and Investment ToursReignite Agriculture ProgramHolistic Development Think TankCenter for African Diaspora ReconciliationPeace and Reconciliation Life-Cycle Management Program
Resettlement Support ProgramPrivate Equity and Angel Investment Partnership in focal areas of Infrastructure, Agriculture, Energy, Education, Health and Family building
Awareness
• Appointment of ADN Global Ambassadors– Belief in ADN Core Values– Pan-African/Global African Union Mindset and Reach– Well lit identity; Clear Purpose; Vocational Clarity & Relational
Integrity• Prospects– Chris Attoh– Lord Paul Boateng– Caribbean Rep– Nigerian Rep– SA Rep– African American Rep/
Quick Deployment Projects
• Building of ADN Baseline Volunteer Core– Orientation Workshop– Documentary Content Expectation Definition– $2000 Quarterly Awards for best submissions– Showcase winner on ADN website and promoted
content on social media– Headlined by Chris Attoh– Focus on community development issues– Focus on sun shining the state of the global African
Union
African Renaissance Institute Think Tank
• Appointment of ADN Think Tank– Belief in ADN Core Values– Pan-African/Global African Union Mindset and Reach– Well lit identity; Clear Purpose; Vocational Clarity & Relational Integrity
• Prospects– Dr. Babatunde Fagbayibo– Lord Paul Boateng– Sebastien Spio-Gabrah– Phillip Osafo Kwaako– Dr. Wanda Eugene– Dr. Shaundra Bryant– Dr. Anderson Prewitt– Michael Omane Acheamfour
ADN Creative Unit
• Produce Documentaries and Content that promotes vision and values of African Diaspora Nation
• Partner with Feature Film/Movie Producers to produce content that unearths identity, self-discovery, purpose and builds a culture of relational integrity
ADN Workflow
ADN BaselineADN Creative Volunteer Core
ADN Love Invasion Program
AND Economic Empowerment Program
AND Support Services• Fundraising and
Partner engagement• IT Support• Logistics and SCM • MindRen Content
Productions & Publishing
• TalkShow• Project Monitoring
and Evaluation
Historical UnderpinningsMarcus Garvey and the UNIA
There is a lot AND is extracting from Marcus Garvey’s UNIA. The United Negro Improvement Association is the largest Black Movement to date. In an era of ship travel and snail mail they garnered a following of about 1million people and made great strides economically. ADN will learn from the experience of UNIA but the key distinction is the fact that ADN knows love and operates from love and not “Anger”. As such ADN will modifiy the following key quote from Marcus Garvey "As the Jew is held together by his religion, the white races by the assumption and the unwritten law of superiority, and the Mongolian by the precious tie of blood, so likewise the Negro must be united in one grand racial hierarchy”
AND Modification"As the Jew is held together by his religion, the white races by the assumption and the unwritten law of superiority, and the Mongolian by the precious tie of blood, so likewise the Negro must be united in grandiose Love and show our other brethren that the only entity worthy of having imperial aspirations amongst men is LOVE”
UNIA Objectives
• To establish a universal confraternity among the race.• To promote the spirit of race pride and love.• To reclaim the fallen race.• To promote a conscientious Christian worship among
the native tribes of Africa.• To establish universities, colleges and secondary
schools for the further education and culture of the boys and girls of the race.
• To conduct a worldwide commercial and industrial intercourse.
ADN Modification
• To establish a universal confraternity among the Africans, people of African Descent and lovers of Africa.
• To promote the spirit of love amongst Africans• To reclaim the fallen race for Love and to be instruments of
love.• To promote a conscientious reverence and subjugation to love
among the native tribes of Africa, people of Africa descent and lovers of Africa.
• To establish universities, colleges and secondary schools for the further education and culture of the boys and girls of of Africa.
• To conduct a worldwide commercial and industrial intercourse.
Urgent Underpinnings
• More than ever, it has become obvious that the future of Africans and people of African descent is very much intertwined and there is lot of value to be captured with a closer and tighter spiritual and economic fraternity
• Think Thanks have not appropriately modeled the impact of a massive African Diaspora returnee movement and altruistic entities like facebook on the catalystic growth of Africa. In other words the sons and daughters of Africa in the Diaspora(which really includes everyone) have the major potential to leapfrog
• Glaring and systematic acts of oppression against blacks globally. In our disillusionment, evil has raped us and agents of evil feel they are entitled to rape us.
Technological Enablers
• Social Media• Community Organizing Platforms• Money Transfer Systems• Bitcoin Exchange• Platforms to mobilize collective wealth of
people of Africans, people of African descent and lovers of Africa world-wide.
Numbers & Monitization for Sustainability
Assumptions based on the membership ramp rate of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Assuming a ramp rate of about 250000 committed per year across the globe via targeted mobilization and marketing efforts across universities, high schools and faith based institutions, ADN can fund it programs with a contribution of about $5 per year per member. ADN conferences can be staged with sponsorship and partnership agreements based on the NSBE or National Black MBA model. Pan-African Film FestivalADN Ambassador AwardsADN Partner Awards
5 year Budget
• Firm commitment of about $50,000 a year over the next 3 years 2015-2017
• Rest of funding to be obtained from member commitments and sponsorship packages
• Priority Focus– Awareness and Enrollment Campaign– Partnership Development– IT & Media Organizational Capability Development– AND Global Ambassadors– ADN Baseline Volunteer Core
Targets
• Build Liberty Hall• African Diaspora World Online Magazine• African Legion• Black Cross Nurses Volunteer Program
ADN Meeting Core Program
• Prayer• ADN Theme Song• ADN Core Declarations
