Working with your Focus Group Focus Group Session 4 is aimed at exploring and agreeing your high-level actions. Exercise 4 – Identify your high-level actions (p70) 2.6 Draft the Strategic Framework (Plan on a Page) Well done! You have completed the most challenging and time-consuming part of the gender strategy development process – you have agreed, at a high-level, your overall vision, and your role in achieving that vision, what your priorities are for the period of the Gender Strategy, the outcomes you are planning to achieve, the actions you will take to achieve those outcomes and the measures to tell you how well you are doing so. A Strategy on a Page (Tool 5) is a useful method of laying out this information. It shows at a glance an overview of the gender strategy in a logical and accessible way and will benefit your next steps. Figure 7: The benefits of a Strategy on a Page Communication As a tool for sharing your strategy with key stakeholders Focus For keeping attention on the big picture and key priorities rather than getting lost in detail. Alignment Helps ensure decisions and actions remain consistent with strategic priorities Accountability As a quick reference to track progress against agreed outcomes. Accessibility To make the strategy understandable and within easy reach. It can sit on office walls as a reference and be easily available at meetings. Engagement Encourages buy-in and ownership by making the strategy more approachable and memorable Gender Strategy Toolkit 2026 41