The Communication and Planning team is responsible for:

• Strategic planning: the preparation and realisation of the Institute’s strategy and objectives, for example by compiling the management agreement and the annual business plans, with the associated indicators for monitoring
• Research coordination, ensuring that our own research is optimally aligned with international research programmes and other research institutions
• Stakeholder management
• Policy preparation, ensuring that a research component is incorporated into policy documents such as MINA plans, policy papers and letters and so on
• Internal audit
• Internal and external communications
• Providing a spokesperson’s service, complaints management
• Providing legal services