Stage 3: Facilitate a community-led planning process 3 3 Facilitate a community-led planning process • Community analysis - decide priority issues • Decide outcomes • Identify resources (inputs) • Develop an action plan Before community action begins it is important to spend significant planning time with the community to ensure it is owned and led by the community. This way: • insider experience, expertise and perspectives will be prioritised. • the approach will be bottom-up, community-driven and more effective. • the community’s collective ownership of, and responsibility for, the work is strengthened. • the benefit to the community is likely to be sustained, past the involvement of your NHRI. Facilitating a logic model (Fig 13) with your community is a useful and simple way of achieving this. This will involve working with the community through the following process: 1. developing a collective and agreed understanding of the community’s current situation and priorities (community analysis) 2. deciding what the community wants to achieve (outcomes) 3. identifying the resources the community requires to achieve its outcomes (inputs) 4. deciding what the community will need to do (activities), or to produce (outputs), to reach its outcomes Figure 13: Planning your community-led process – a logic model Situation Input Activity / Output Outcome The order in which you facilitate these stages can vary. Think about what suits you and the community you are working with. This Guide proposes the following process: Step 1: Situation is assessed, and priority issues identified Step 2: Outcomes are developed Step 3: Activities and outputs to achieve the outcomes are decided Step 4: The resources required to undertake the activities are identified. APF HRCLD Guide 38