Course Description and Pre-requested:
Organizations must have a grounded starting point to effectively accomplish their missions. A strategic plan is a vital tool and an important process that helps an organization reach its goals and achieve success. The course is also to demonstrate the importance of program evaluation with regard to the development of population and family health interventions, such as HIV prevention and treatment.
The purpose of this course is to provide learners with the fundamentals of building a successful strategic plan for operating a support organization for population and health advocacy, prevention and intervention. The course will also cover the fundamentals of a successful evaluation to improve the quality of the services. This course presents information for preparing strategic plan for people with varying levels of experience in strategic planning. In addition, this course also to assist program planners in building an effective evaluation component within the program to ensure ongoing capacity building and success. There is no course requirement but Population and Family Health I (KUI-605a).
Expected Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the importance of a strategic plan.
- Define the key components of strategic planning.
- Explain the structure of strategic planning.
- Initiate the strategic planning process within their organization.
- Articulate a mission and vision.
- Conduct an environmental assessment.
- Explain the differences between strategies, goals and objectives
- Define and give examples of formative and summative evaluation.
- Define types of monitoring and evaluation.
- Explain what a logic model is intended to do.
- Examine the stages of an evaluation phase.
- Identify the components of an evaluation team.
- Describe the timeline for evaluation.
- Identify the steps in program evaluation.
- Identify what method of data collection is appropriate for the various types of information needed for the evaluation and documentation.
- Recognize that the cycle of feedback, follow-up and information dissemination develops a standardized protocol for ensuring evaluation capacity-building.
- Assess the efforts of monitoring and evaluation programs on MCH, RH, FP and HIV-AIDS, Nutrition, malaria and tuberculosis.