The invaluable lessons learnt from the strategic planning exercises, and the enormous demands IEA-Kenya continues to receive from other constituencies, necessitated the writing of this manual. It is published to aide community facilitators to run successful constituency strategic planning workshops and to produce apt constituency strategic plans. The primary focus of these plans is the prioritizationof key performance areas to achieve the highest impact in collaboration with all development actors. It is therefore not a tool that aides the planning for one specificfund like CDF.