Guidance

TASK 1: Build Capacity Through Organizational Development

Part of capacity building is paying attention to the organizational infrastructure needed to plan, implement, evaluate, and sustain your intervention. Five factors are key to both organizational infrastructure development and sustainability:29

 - Creating and strengthening administrative structures and formal linkages among all organizations and systems involved
 - Encouraging champion and leadership roles across organizations and systems, and making sure that these roles are distributed across different ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, and other community subpopulations
 - Ensuring that adequate funding, staffing, technical assistance, and materials will be in place when needed
 - Developing administrative policies and procedures that support your prevention strategies and send a clear message about the desirability of and expectations for sustaining efforts
 - Building and maintaining community and practitioner expertise in several areas, for example:
          - Effective prevention programs
          - Needs assessment
          - Logic model construction
          - Selection and implementation of evidence-based programs
          - Fidelity and adaptation
          - Evaluation
          - Cultural competence

Tool
MOAPC Planning Tool