Developing strategies and activities in your action plan
After agreeing your objectives, the next task is to decide on the strategies and activities for achieving them. This means working out the methods you will use and the activities you will undertake, and writing a clearly stated action plan. The action plan should include every activity to be performed during the year, the time when that activity is to be done, who will do it, how that person (or people) will do it, and what resources will be needed. In developing your action plan, you should ensure that your strategy and activities are relevant to resolving the identified problems, and that they are technically feasible, financially affordable and acceptable to the community.
What activities might you undertake in order to meet the objective of updating registration of newborns in your community every month?
Here are some suggestions. You may have thought of others.
- Ask about recent births in each family whenever you visit a household for any reason.
- Ask kebele leaders, traditional birth attendants and other influential people what recent births have occurred in each village.
- Ask each mother who visits the Health Post when she (or any other women in her family) last had a baby, and check that you have recorded the birth.