THE Jamaica Netball Association (JNA) says it will be ready to roll out its four-year development plan to chart the way forward for the national programme leading up to the 2015 World Netball Championships in Sydney, Australia by the end of this month.

“We put together what we saw what we needed to make the JNA more efficient and serve the needs,” association president Marva Bernard told the Observer.

The top brass of the local governing body came together and started working on a new plan following Jamaica’s performance at the 2011 World Netball Championships (WNC) in Singapore in which the senior netball team ended below expectations, earning a fourth-place finish.

“We looking further down the line now at 2015 and what we have to do. We had meetings with four focus groups,” Bernard explained, adding that the plan would have been prepared regardless of the team’s finish in Singapore.

“It would have happened anyway because at the end of a world tournament a new cycle begins. We can’t dwell on the Singapore result forever, but we have to look at it to see what we have to do in 2015.”

Bernard told the Observer that the final touches are being put in place by the facilitator in conjunction with high performance director, Maureen Hall.

“It’s going to mean a whole lot of work. A whole lot of work is going to have to go into getting ourselves in the frame of mind for the World Youth Championships in Glasgow in 2013.”

Among the plans will be to revive the parish associations, especially in the western section of the island, improving the club system and the communication between clubs and the JNA, as well as start a new coaching course in association with the University of Technology (UTech) to train as many as 200 local coaches.

“We do not have enough qualified netball coaches in the island to meet the needs of the sport. The whole business of coaching is not anymore about tactics. It is everything. We believe the programme we are working with at UTech is a good programme.”

Meanwhile, Bernard also explained the hiring of Hall in her current post which she assumed at the start of last month.

“This is a new post for Jamaica, but it is not new to the top three countries in the world. We do not have the resources to hire these positions full time, but what we really did, we looked at what we wanted to do going forward.

“The council sat down and decided that we wanted to have somebody who was full time in charge of all the coaches. It is very demanding but it is something that is so necessary. We want to make the transition as seamless as possible.

“She is going to work very closely with the coaches. Collaborate with them. Make sure that all the skills that are required to perform at peak (and) she is going to be making sure that we have skilled players to meet those tournaments.”