Video 10: Contingency Planning

Video 10: Contingency Planning

Effectiveproject planning involves anticipating challenges that could hinder progressand creating contingency plans to address them. This section covers how toaddress these unanticipated challenges that could impede successful implementationof your project. Different challenges are highlighted, which will allow foryour project to explore and plan for potential issues.

  • Welcome to the ANA Project Planning and Development on Demand Training series.
  • This is Video 10: Contingency planning.
  • Contingency plans are thinking of anything that could happen to or impact the implementation of your project. Some different events you could list in a contingency plan could include staffing turnover, participant retention, losing partnerships, travel disruptions, or even natural disasters. Keep in mind this is different than your operating procedures and is very specific to your project. Working with a group to identify these challenges and related contingencies could help you get a variety of different perspectives.
  • When creating your contingency plan, organize your challenges and responses similar to this table. This is a clear way to list these challenges and how you're going to respond to them. The more thorough your contingency planning is, the more prepared you will be should something unexpected occur.
  • For activity nine, we will now create a contingency plan. Create a table of two columns. Left column will include the unexpected challenges that may occur with your project, and the column on the right will be how you address them should they happen. Please write a contingency plan for how you would respond to staffing challenges turnover, partnership changes, participant retention, and travel delays.
  • Thank you for viewing video 10 of the Project Planning and Development On-Demand Training series. If you have any questions regarding project development or the administration for Native Americans, please feel free to contact us at anaalaska.org.

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Video 7: Data Metrics of Success
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