Project HOPE - Seven Steps for Planning a Community Initiative

Tue, 11/04/2003 - 07:33

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Establish a 'Vision Team' (up to 30 people) to brainstorm ideas for the programme
Identify a local coordinator to manage the process and unleash multiple volunteer-initiated projects
Gather data about youth, adult perceptions, and community resources for asset building. Use surveys, focus groups, interviews, community meetings, etc.
Raise community awareness of asset building, using newsletters, fact sheets, newspaper articles, and television and radio interviews
Form task forces to develop action plans for specific areas (e.g. support, structured time use, positive values) or specific types of initiatives (e.g. mentor and volunteer programmes). Use members of your vision team as the core for these task forces.
Develop a vision, priorities and action plans based on the information you gathered and the work of the task forces.
Formally launch the initiative once action plans are in place.

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Where is the stage that builds the 'audiences' capacity to act. Despite action lists existing, many communities and people are simply not in the position or do not have the skills or resources to act in the ways that communicators and their clients would like them too.

Very useful and helpful in our community mobilization project in ECCD area

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Project HOPE - Seven Steps for Planning a Community Initiative

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