Under the Third Strategic Medium Term Plan 2012 – 2016 (SMTP III), ACBF has identified three strategic pillars:
- Enhancing critical capacities to promote political and social stability for transformational change, through:
- Developing leaders
- Building transparency and enhance accountability of processes
- Improving participatory and inclusive decision processes
- Enhancing skills of individuals with service delivery responsibility and disseminating and sharing tools for efficient public sector administration and management.
- Enhancing capacity to engage and regulate the productive sector, through:
- Policy institutes and think tanks
- Efforts that support skills building of ministerial staff responsible for implementing policies would be given special attention forscaling up through restructured university partnerships that ACBF has developed over the years
- The Foundation will pay specific attention to investing in dialogue and reflection on values that lead to good governance, working in collaboration with regional and country entities on a series of important themes
- Individual skills building efforts that are focused on ethics, integrity, and accountable governance.
- Enhancing capacity to track policy impact, through:
- Assessment of capacity at the country and regional levels
- Special emphasis on enhancing long term and strategic planning in key ministries as well as support to the statistical requirements for tracking policy impact.
- Activities aimed at developing a culture of evaluating public programs
- Strengthening policy advocacy capacity of non-state actors, intensification of effective oversight functions, and operationalizing efficiency of information disclosure and access systems.
