Having clear and well-defined goals or outcomes that incorporate the community's resources, capacities, and specified target population is critical to effective program design and implementation. Within this phase, the strategy is devised for impacting previously identified needs. The ideal product of this phase is a well-designed, theoretically sound program strategy and a complete evaluation strategy that will produce answers about the program and its impacts. Major categories of activity in this phase follow. Many researchers have developed theories to help explain a particular phenomenon or behavior thereby creating a framework for your program.
Theories serve as guides for finding answers to questions.
The difficulty is in identifying a relevant theory and ensuring it is acceptable to the community values and perspectives. Combining different methods or programs to change the environment around teens is believed to facilitate positive behavior change. Time spent on evaluation issues before implementing a program, however, is time well spent. In addition to design type and measures, the strength of the strategy to answer your questions, the readiness of the community, the availability of staff and participants, and the cost are also necessary to consider. The general purpose of the program accountability and monitoring phase is to find out how your program is being implemented and to keep track of the participation in activities and participants' program satisfaction.