Detailing program activities

The program goal, objectives, and strategies are like a skeleton. They give you a good idea of the basic structure of the program. Defining program activities is adding muscle to the skeleton to give you a complete picture of the program.

Here are the prerequisites for detailing program activities:

• You need to define your program goals, objectives, and strategies.

  See:	Defining a general program goal Defining program objectives Defining and developing program strategies

• Define activities for each program component.

  Each component consists of a program objective plus supporting strategy.

• If possible, review your activities with an consultant.

  It takes experience to know whether you have enough program activities defined to accomplish a given objective.

• Give attention to other planning details such as scheduling, completion dates, needed inputs, and costs.
• Review your list of activities to determine if they are consistent and coherent.

  Be sure that you have not specified activities which are dependent upon other activities that have not been defined.

• Allow plenty of time for program activities. It is common to underestimate the amount of time needed to accomplish a given activity.

• Planning a literacy program

• Task module: Detailing program activities, 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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