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Competency D: Develop plans and materials for implementation and

evaluations.

Sub-competencies D:

1. Develop an implementation plan inclusive of logic model, work plan,

responsible parties, timeline, marketing, and communication.

2.Develop materials needed for implementation.

3. Address factors that influence implementation.

Steps in Planning

1. Information gathering

There is typically a high level of health educator involvement with subjects;

strategies of participant observation and in-depth, unstructured interviews are

often used.

Methods of Information gathering

o Observation: The most common method used for getting information and

acts as a fundamental and a basic method of getting information. Observation

means ‘accurate watching, noting the phenomenon by which they occur in

the nature with regard to the cause and effect of mutual relations.

o Individual interviews: Either Non structured or Semi structured. It is a

conversation on a given topic between a respondent and an interviewer,

involves asking questions and getting answers from respondent.

o Projective Techniques are unstructured and indirect forms of questioning

which encourage the respondents to project their underlying motivations,

beliefs, attitudes or feelings regarding the issues of concern.

Types of Projective Techniques:

1.Completion Test: asks the respondents to complete sentences, dialogs, or

stories, etc..

2.Picture response and Interpretation: about certain problem
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