AIA’s Public Purpose
The AIA is a PRO (Professional Regulatory Organization) that exists to regulate agrologists to safeguard the health and safety of clients and the broader public who could be affected by poor practice.
The Institute regulates agrologists by fulfilling core mandates in the Agrology Profession Act and Regulation.
Core Mandate
Core mandates are essential legal obligations that must be fulfilled. The Institute’s core mandates are listed in the Act, section 3: The Institute must govern regulated members in a manner that protects and serves the public interest, regulate the practice of agrology, and establish and maintain standards of registration, practice, and competence, a code of ethics, and programs of study and education courses for registration. The council’s core mandate is in section 6: to administer the Act, Regulation, and Bylaws to ensure that the Institute fulfills its own core mandates. The AIA’s Strategic Plan is justifiably based on the AIA’s core mandates. Although new legislation is imminent, the AIA’s core mandates are fundamental to all PROs. They are not likely to change. Institute Strategic Plan
Institute Strategic Plan
The Strategic Plan’s focal question ties to legislated core mandates: What are the foreseeable risks to the AIA’s ability to fulfill core mandates over the next three years, their impacts, and measurable strategic responses? Thus, the Strategic Plan is organized by core mandate (at the top of each column). The column under each core mandate enumerates the focal question’s concerns: the foreseeable risks to the Institute, their impacts, strategic responses, and measurable outcomes of each response.
The first five columns concern the Institute. These columns enumerate pragmatic and purposive risks, impacts, responses, and measurable outcomes that emerge from identified practical challenges to Institute operations and potential responses that will fulfill the Institute’s public purpose. It is for the Institute to identify these issues. The sixth column concerns the council. It is for the council to address the issues in the first five columns within the council’s scope of authority. That column therefore ties neatly to the Council Performance Management Plan, which ties to the council’s scope of authority.