Size

• Small and informal (goal of less than 300 literates)
• Modest (goal of less than 1,000 literates)
• Large (goal of more than 1,000 literates)

Function or focus

• Adult literacy (strong focus on the mother tongue)
• Mother-tongue education
• Transitional (strong focus on LWC)
• Mixed (some combination of adult literacy and mother-tongue education

Strategy

• To fulfill a contractual commitment
• To support a government initiative
• To respond to community initiative
• To support scattered personal initiative
• To support other program goals

Methodology

• Done by translation team alone
• Done primarily by a second team (1 or 2 persons) assigned to the project
• Done by a macro team

Activity

• Strictly literacy
• Literacy and some promotion
• Vigorous promotion and some literacy

Delivery mechanism

• SIL or similar team
• Church or similar religious institution
• Local school
• Other community based organization
• Government sponsored framework

Timing

• Before SIL program can start
• Integral to SIL program
• Late in an SIL program
• After SIL program is otherwise finished

Scope or extension

• Primarily literacy
• Literacy and some development work
• Literacy and extensive development work
• Extensive institution building

Means of funding

• Primarily personally funded
• Community support (usually voluntarism)
• Minimal external funding (less than $10,000)
• Modest external funding (less than $50,000)
• Large scale external funding (above $50,000)