Defining and developing program strategies

To put a program together, you must develop one or more strategies which serve the purpose of achieving the program objectives, and ultimately, the program goal. This module will help you understand what strategies are and how they are identified and developed.

As a background to the following discussion, you should review the following modules:

• Defining a general program goal
• Defining program objectives

The strategies proposed should work together to achieve every specific objective in the program. There does not need to be a strategy for each objective, because a given strategy may serve to meet more than one specific objective. Similarly, it may be useful to specify more than one strategy for a given objective. For example, there could be one strategy for male literacy and another strategy for female literacy, or one strategy for urban residents and another strategy for rural residents.

Normally, there are many possible strategies for achieving a specific goal. Therefore, the specification of strategies may take considerable time and effort.

Proposed strategies need to be consistent with realities such as geography, economics, social conditions, available resources, and political and educational policies. Also, proposed strategies need to be acceptable to the individuals or agencies who will carry them out.

Here are the prerequisites for defining and developing program strategies:

• You need to define your program goal.

  See:	Defining a program goal

• You need to define your program objectives.

  See:	Defining program objectives

• Review the list of program objectives to have a clear picture of what needs to be done.
• Use your knowledge of the local situation to list strategies that might be appropriate to the situation.
• Finalize a list of strategies in consultation with all stakeholders .
• Check to be sure that the strategies you have listed will allow the program to meet all program objectives as well as the program goal.

• Planning a literacy program

• Developing a strategy for Hewa literacy

• Task module: Defining and developing program strategies, by Stephen L. Walter
• In task module: Designing a literacy program
• In task module: Planning a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter
• In modular book: Plan a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter, Barbara K. Trudell (contributor), and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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