Chapter 4: Step 1: Analysis
 

There are many approaches to take when developing IPC interventions. Although there are no cookie-cutter interventions, one does not need to completely reinvent the wheel. The exact approach depends on the capacities and cultural realities of each country, the target populations, the behavior change objectives, and the institutional capacity of each field office. It is up to each PSI office to decide on an appropriate approach based on these factors.

The steps listed below are designed to help program planners start thinking about how an IPC program might be designed. Although enacting some of the more concrete steps actually come later in the planning process - for example, carrying out an evaluation survey - it is important for program planners to begin thinking about some of these issues in advance, so that the evaluation survey is incorporated into the project timeline, and to ensure that sufficient funding is available to support that research.

First Steps: Assessing Organizational Capability

Assess the resources needed: human, time, funding, staff skills
Although you may not know specific numbers at this point in program planning, it is important to begin to think through organizational capability so you can incorporate capacity building into your project plan. Will you have to hire new staff to build this project? Is there someone who can serve to oversee the project? What staff skills will be necessary to ensure an effective program is developed and run. What timeline are you working with? Where is your funding coming from? How much money do you have? It is ok if you do not know the answers to these questions from the start, but it is good to start thinking about it from the onset of the project.

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