EEPP   Program Support Unit 

Functions and Team Building for the PFTC Department, EEAA 

Overview of the Existing Organizational Environment 

within which the PFTC Operates 

Engineer Hany Ezzat launched the analysis of the PFTC organizational environment with a 

short presentation on the dimensions of SWOTs analysis.  SWOTs stands for strengths, 

weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the institutional unit one has selected to study.   

Three groups of PFTC staff used Attachment 5, SWOTs Analysis Form (Arabic) to guide 

their review of the status of PFTC within the Agency.  The results are listed in Attachment 6., 

SWOTs Analysis, Groups A,B,C, Arabic and English. 

The three groups produced similar content and detail on all of the four SWOTs dimensions. 

All groups were aware of the overall talent that the department possessed in addition to its 

experienced leadership.  No group, however, was explicit about the impact of macro level 

factors.  The influx of new senior staff to the Ministry or the added linkages with the Ministry 

of Agriculture, utilities and donors, etc. were not mentioned as opportunities for or as threats 

to planning and policy making at the Agency. 

Again, the SWOTs highlighted concerns about the internal operations of PFTC:  vision, 

structure, communications, measurement of performance, facilities/tools proportionate to 

workload, delegation, etc.  Staff voiced a concern that the quality of their output was being 

affected negatively by work overload and by last minute assignments. 

PFTC staff mentioned a need for greater awareness of the higher objectives of the 

environment sector, the priorities of the Agency and its executives, departments and 

programs.  With such an understanding, PFTC staff could reach out more effectively to other 

partners to produce quality work.  Staff are often too busy to communicate effectively with 

partner resources due to the limited time available to complete assignments. 

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