The ICA has successfully completed its latest strategic planning cycle, resulting in the adoption of the Strategic Plan 2025–2029 at the General Assembly in Barcelona in October 2025. This plan is the outcome of an extensive, year-long process grounded in the needs, goals, and aspirations expressed by our members across the global archival community. 

The plan reflects the views and opinions shared during the campaign ICA by its members, for its members, and presents input from members in relation to all areas of the association. This plan was approved at the first virtual Annual General Assembly on 16 November 2020.

The Programme Commission’s Strategic Plan was designed to indicate the general direction and expectations for the Commission as a whole, for its six areas of professional activity and, more broadly, for ICA’s programme-related activities over a three-year period. The plan was approved on 25 November 2017.

The recommendations in this document were put to the Executive Board for final decision at its Girona meeting on 14 October 2014.

The purpose of this document was to provide a clear statement of why ICA had chosen its strategic direction and what it wished to achieve over the next ten years. This document was presented at the ICA Annual General Meeting on 25-26 July 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.