3.4 Community develops an action plan By this time the community has completed an analysis of its situation, identified its priority human rights issues, decided the outcomes it wishes to work toward and how it will measure them and begun to identify the resources it needs. The final stage is to work out how the community will reach its outcomes. That is, what it will do (activities) and what it will produce (outputs). The best way of doing this is for the community to develop an action plan. Action plans detail ‘what’, ‘how’, ‘who’, ‘when’, ‘what resource’ and ‘how will we know’. Action Plans also help to check how well the community is progressing toward its outcomes. Action plans do not need to be complicated. They do, however, need to be owned by the community and be simple enough to provide a clear guide for progressing action toward their outcomes. You or the community will have your own planning tools but following is a template as an example. Ishana collaborated with ethnic communities in Hamilton, New Zealand to design and deliver a workshop “Working with Ethnic Groups’ for community development advisors and organisations, including youth workers. (Photo by the NZHRC) This community decided to raise the issue of domestic violence by organising a march through the streets. Opotiki, Aotearoa New Zealand (Photo by J Chrisp) APF HRCLD Guide 46