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Preparing A Community: Action Plan

A community action plan helps a community plan outreach activities by establishing goals, objectives, and strategies to address issues of concern. It requires strong participation from community members, guarantees all stakeholders participate, and ensures local acceptance. Key elements of an effective plan include specific, measurable, agreed upon, realistic, and time-bound objectives. Developing a plan requires clearly defining goals, listing steps, assigning tasks, setting milestones, identifying needed resources, planning actions, and monitoring progress. Considerations in developing the plan include building partnerships, developing a budget, and aligning the plan with the community's vision and mission.

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Preparing A Community: Action Plan

A community action plan helps a community plan outreach activities by establishing goals, objectives, and strategies to address issues of concern. It requires strong participation from community members, guarantees all stakeholders participate, and ensures local acceptance. Key elements of an effective plan include specific, measurable, agreed upon, realistic, and time-bound objectives. Developing a plan requires clearly defining goals, listing steps, assigning tasks, setting milestones, identifying needed resources, planning actions, and monitoring progress. Considerations in developing the plan include building partnerships, developing a budget, and aligning the plan with the community's vision and mission.

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Preparing a Community

Action Plan
Picture Analysis: Refer to the questions below in analyzing the given pictures. Write
the answers in your activity notebook.

1. What are the events depicted in the pictures?


2. Do you think the events in the pictures involve the use of
community action plan? Support your answer.
Community Action Plan
● helps the community or any organization to plan for an
outreach activity. To better internalize the plan of action
and have a concrete vision, effective goals and objectives
are to be obtained in order to directly address the issue or
concern. Moreover, there should be a clear description of
the strategy to be used to meet the objectives.
Advantages and
Disadvantages of Community
Action Plan
Advantages: Disadvantages:
1. Strong participation from the local
community 1. Requires time an d resources to involve all
2. By implementing community action, the relevant stakeholders in the process
solutions for existing problems will come 2. Finding consensus among community
from the community itself and hence, will members with varying age groups can
better cater the needs of the people be very difficult
3. Guarantees that all relevant groups 3. Community action p lans won’t be
participate in the activities. effective enough without motivating the
4. Guarantees the acceptance and support people in the community to give their full
from the local community.
support for the program/activity.
Elements of an Action Plan

1. Specific
-Objectives need to be clearand
detailed.
Elements of an Action Plan
2. Measurable
-Outcomes must be what the person really wants.
-Outcomes should producetangible rewards.
Elements of an Action Plan
3. Agreeable
-For the citizens to agree, the activity proposed in the
action plan must be something that will greatly benefit
the rest of the people in the community.
Elements of an Action Plan

4.Realistic
-The needed resources must be
readily available in the locality.
Elements of an Action Plan

5.Time-specific
-Deadline for achieving each stage
should be set.
Elements of an Action Plan

6. Supportive back-up
-A helping relationship is useful at all
times. Moreover,the details on what
kind of support to beoffered mustbe
clearly spelled out.
Steps in Preparing an Action Plan
1. The goal must be clearly defined.

-You must start by discussingwhat you want to achieve.


Analyze the situationwelland try to brainstorm with colleagues for possible solutions
before choosing the best option.

-Specify the goal:


1. Specific-what do you want to do?
write out clear, concise goals.
2.Measurable-how will you know when you’ve reached it?
the ability to track your progress.
3.Attainable / Achievable –is it in your power to accomplish it?
set challenging, yet achievable goals.
4.Realistic –can you realistically achieve it?
set goals that are relevant to your overall life plan.
5.Timely-when exactly do you want to accomplish it?
goal has target finish time attached.
2. List down the steps to be followed
3. Create a rough template to list down all the
tasks to be performed, due date,and people
responsible.
4.Set the milestones
-One should also consider minigoals leadingto
the main goal at the end. This is an advantage
inadding milestones to give the team members
something to look forward to.
5.Identify the resources needed
-This is the most crucialpointto ensure that all
necessarily resources are available.
6. Visualize the course of action
-Creating something that everyone understands.
Actioncomes in the shape of flowcharts or tables
which clearly communicate the elements to
identify tasks, task owner and resources.
7.Monitor,evaluate and update
-Allocate a specific time to evaluate the
performance of the team.
-Mark the tasks which are already accomplished.
Suggested Table of Contents
for an Action Plan
1.Cover Letter

A letter to the community to the Mayor


or community leader
2.Introduction

A description of the purpose of the


action plan and how it was developed
3.Community Profile

A brief overview of the distinguishing


characteristics of the municipality
and its priority issues
4.The Community Action Plan
a.A description of the issues and community
goals
b.Leads the organization from each sector
c.Current activities and projects
d.Suggestions for new projects or a community-
wide campaign
5.Resources

a.Where to go for financial support


b.Where to get advice and educational material
c.Where to get donated products or services
6.Network

A contact list of key groups, government


departments, and others who are
supporting the Community Action Plan
What are the considerations
in completing a Community
Action Plan?
Partnerships among people.

In order to accomplish the goals and objectives in the plan, the people
involved must establish unity and commitment. It is important that the
involved people develop good relations and trust one another.
Budget.
Financial resources are usually necessary to develop and carry out a
community action plan. Therefore, it is important to develop a budgetplanthat
describes the expenses for carrying out the action plan. What you include in
the budget should match the proposed strategies and activities.
Close alignment with the community’s mission and vision.

The vision that was developed during the community assessment process reflects
where the community wants to be headed. The mission is the purpose of your group.
During the writing of the action plan, the writers work from the vision and the mission
to identify several major goals (priority or strategic) that must be reached. These, in
total, work toward the vision and the mission.

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