Testing the suitability of a program type

Once you have a recommendation about a literacy program type, you need to take some steps to explore the suitability of this recommendation with all your partners or stakeholders in the proposed program.

• Include all partners and stakeholders in the decision-making process.

  Your partners may include

  • representative individuals or agencies of the target group

  • your organization's leadership including

    • literacy consultants
    • the literacy coordinator
    • the language programs coordinator, and
    • key support staff
  • colleagues in the regional and national government, or
  • colleagues from other institutions such as churches, NGOs, local business organizations, or development agencies.
• Discuss with your partners questions such as these:
  • Is the proposed program type acceptable and consistent with the goals and standards of all stakeholders?
  • What objectives do all share?
  • Which objectives are unique to one or another?
  • Can all agree on a common direction?
  • What would be a good chronological order for implementing the strategies chosen?
  • What strategies might be developed for implementing the program?
  • Who will take responsibility for what?
  • Who or what agency will share what resources?

• Task module: Testing the suitability of a program type
• In task module: Determining the type of literacy program, by Barbara K. Trudell (contributor), Stephen L. Walter (contributor), and Julia R. Van Dyken (contributor)
• 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

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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