Five Year Plan (2016-2021)

Five Year Plan (2016-2021)
Epoch	Fifth Epoch
Coordinator	Universal House of Justice
Protagonists	All National Spiritual Assemblies

Divine Plan

Shoghi Effendi

First Epoch (1937-1963)

1st Seven Year Plan (1937-1944) Indian Six Year Plan (1938-1944) British Six Year Plan (1944-1950) 2nd Seven Year Plan (1946-1953) Indian 4½ Year Plan (1946-1950) Persian 45 Month Plan (1946-1950) Persian Women's Four Year Plan (1946-1950) Australian Six Year Plan (1947-1953) Canadian Five Year Plan (1948-1953) Egyptian Five Year Plan (1948-1953) German Five Year Plan (1948-1953) African Campaign (1950-1953) Iraqi Three Year Plan (1950-1953) British Two Year Plan (1951-1953) Indian Nineteen Month Plan (1951-1953) South American Two Year Plan (1951-1953) Central American One Year Plan (1952-1953) Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963) Northeast Asian Six Year Plan (1957-1963)

Universal House of Justice

Second Epoch (1964-2021)

Nine Year Plan (1964-1973) Five Year Plan (1974-1979) Seven Year Plan (1979-1986) Six Year Plan (1986-1992) Three Year Plan (1993-1996) Four Year Plan (1996-2000) Twelve Month Plan (2000-2001) Five Year Plan (2001-2006) Five Year Plan (2006-2011) Five Year Plan (2011-2016) Five Year Plan (2016-2021)

Third Epoch (2021-)

Twelve Month Plan (2021-2022) Nine Year Plan (2022-2031)

The Five Year Plan for 2016 to 2021 was one of a series of Plans carried out under the guidance of the Universal House of Justice.

The Plan focused on the systematic establishment of the following four core activities in local Bahá’í communities and ensuring their sustainability:

• Study Circles
• Children's Classes
• Devotional Gatherings
• Junior Youth Groups

As with the previous Plan progress and activity was monitored on a manageable scale using the cluster model with the numerical goal of the Plan being the existence of 5,000 intensive programmes of growth in clusters worldwide. This built on the previous plans goal of establishing 5,000 programmes of growth.

The goal of the Plan was unable to be accomplished by 2021 partially due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the following Twelve Month Plan extended the timeframe for achieving 5,000 intensive programmes of growth to 2022.