Planning a literacy program

Most people find planning a literacy program to be much more difficult than it first seems. There are many factors and details that must be considered in making a good plan.

This module

• introduces you to the issues and processes involved in planning a literacy program, and
• provides a planning model to help you account for all the important factors in your plan.

The model presented here is based on the SIL SPAR model, although it borrows elements from Bhola's subsystem model which is specific for literacy programs. USAID (United States Agency for International Development) uses a planning model called the Logical Framework. Any of these models will provide you with good guidance.

Here are some prerequisites for planning a literacy program:

• You need to complete the work described in Doing preliminary research and planning for a literacy program.

• You need to consult with other agencies, individuals, and institutions likely to be involved in or affected by the literacy program.

  See:	Networking in a language program

Getting started

• Review: Preliminary considerations in program design .
• Arrange for planning sessions with all appropriate persons and agencies.

  See:	Participants in program planning

• Determine the type of literacy program needed.

Designing the program

• Define program goals, objectives,strategies, and activities.
• Identify all resources needed to carry out program activities.

Completing the program plan

• Evaluate your literacy program plan for completeness.
• Prepare any needed program documents.

• Literacy programs
• Resources to help you do strategic program planning

• Bhola 1994

• Task module: Planning a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter
• In modular book: Plan a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter, Barbara K. Trudell (contributor), and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 22 October 1999

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