Development of Poverty Alleviation Related

Action Plan

Action planning – Main aims:

• Learning how to translate new insights into realistic
action plans

• Getting insights into techniques to develop action

plans

• Presenting, discussing and defending own action plans

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Action planning – Four phases:

A. Goals and Targets

B. SWOT Analysis

C. Action planning

D. Validation
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Action planning – Course activities:

1. Practical and stimulating idea related to poverty

2. Work in own action planning

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Action planning – Work approach:

1. Learning by doing (active training forms)
2. Learning from each other (exchange of insights and
experiences)
3. Using practical experiences
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Phase A: Goals and Targets

Expected Goals

• Overview and description of goals for your action plan

Relevant questions

Goals:

• What do we want to achieve concerning your identified issue? How does that
contribute to development?
• Which dream do you want to realise?
• Which nightmare do you want to avoid?

Targets:
• What do you want to do to realise your dream/goals? What are your main
intentions and actions at a general level?
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B: SWOT analysis

Expected outputs
• An overview of strong points, weak points, threats and opportunities concerning
the issue under study
• A good fundament to think about possibilities to strengthen strong points and
opportunities and to overcome weak point and threats

Relevant questions
• What do you consider to be strong points of the issue under study?
• What do you consider to be weak points of the issue under study?
• What do you consider to be opportunities of the issue under study?
• What do you consider to be threats of the issue under study?
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Strengths:
Internal characteristics
that contribute to the
strong points of the
identified issue
Weaknesses:
Internal characteristics
that contribute to the
weak points of the
identified issue

Opportunities: Threats:
External characteristics External characteristics
that could be of use to that could negatively
improve the situation influence the situation
regarding the identified regarding the identified
issue issue
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Phase C: Action planning

Expected outputs
• Overview of SMART (specific, measurable, attractive, result oriented and Time-
bound) formulated actions
• Overview of practical arrangements to make the implementation of the action plan
realistic

Relevant questions
• How to translate the developed strategies into the action planning overview?
• What will be now concrete areas of intervention and activities to address the
identified issue?
• Who should do now what, when, under which conditions, etc?
Table 1- Action plan: Fill out the action plan underneath
Goal:

Targets Activities Responsible Needed Time schedule Indicators to

organisation resources and and measure
and persons from whom? milestones realisation of
intentions
1. 1.

2.

3.

2. 1.

2.

3.
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Phase D : Validation action plan