Video 6: TTIP Objectives

TTIP Objectives

This section will provide you with an overview of TTIP Objectives

Objectives are the larger building blocks that need to be achieved to reach the project goal and improve the current community condition. ANA permits a maximum of three project objectives for the entire project period. The format for ANA’s objectives is TTIP: Timeline, Target, Indicator and Population. ANA limits the number of objectives to encourage projects that are manageable within the allotted project period. You may find that you only need one objective for your project while others may need all three. Objectives can operate sequentially, where the second objective is dependent upon completing the first. Or they can operate concurrently, where activities for one objective are started around the same time as another.

This is video six of the Pre-Application Training Videos developed by the ANA Regional Training and Technical Assistance Centers. I'm your trainer today. I'm Drena MacIntyre, and I'm with the Alaska Region Training and Technical Assistance Center. The Alaska Region Training and Technical Assistance Center offers free training and technical assistance to the 227 tribes and native nonprofits located in the state of Alaska. You can reach us at www.anaalaska.org or 800-948-3158. This 16-video series is designed to introduce you to the basic concepts for preparing a 2021 ANA grant application to support your community-based project. There are 16 videos in the series, and we urge you to take all in sequence. This is video six of the pre-application training in the project framework, TTIP objectives. Your application needs to sufficiently identify one to three objectives that effectively describes a measurable achievement with all the components of TTIP, which is target, timeline, indicator and population. You can have no more than three objectives included in your application. And all of your objectives should lead to the achievement of your project goal. ANA allows up to three objectives. Each objective must include all of the following: Timeline, a time by which the objective will be achieved. A target, a measurement for the intended amount of change. An indicator, a measurable sign that something has been changed or achieved. And population, the specific group that your project will focus on. We've designed a Mad Lib activity to help you build and write your TTIP objectives. You can see here it's laid out by, and that's when, so that's your timeline. Who or the population, will increase or decrease. That's what, or the indicator, by/to how much, and that's the target. You can go to page 42 of your manual to get more information about TTIP objectives and this Mad Lib activity. A special note is that your indicator shows what will change and your target shows how much it will change. And each objective must include an indicator as well as a targeted achievement for that indicator. Your indicator and your target are always married to each other. For the Pine Creek tribe, their TTIP objective is by the end of 36 months, that's their timeline, the Tribal nonprofit farmers' market, that's the population, will reduce the costs on a selection of six vegetables and three fruits, that's the indicator, by 40%, that's the target. You can also see this example on page 46 of your manual. Here are examples of language TTIP objectives. By 24 months, that's your timeline, 25 youth ages seven through 12, that's the population, will increase their language proficiency, that's the indicator, by four proficiency levels, that's the target. Another language example: by the end of the 36th month, that's the timeline, the Alaska Seaside region, population, will increase the number of certified language teachers, that's your indicator, by at least 10, that's the target. For the environmental regulatory enhancement project, an example would be: by the end of year one, that's the timeline, the Great Rivers Tribe Sanitation Department, that's the population, will increase capacity to regulate community safety and sanitation, that's your indicator, by developing one set of regulations and standards for trash collection service, that's your target. Another ERE example is by the end of the project's 12th month, that's the timeline, the Great Rivers Tribe iGAP Department, that's the population, will update and submit the Hunting and Fishing Code, your indicator, to include the newly acquired wetlands, that's the target. For a SEDS Alaska example of a TTIP objective, by the end of 36 months, that's your timeline, the Alaska Inland Tribe, that's the population, will develop a community-driven comprehensive development plan, that's the indicator, with five critical sectors, that's the target. And you can see that the number of objectives are specific to your project design. And you can have up to three objectives. Explain target numbers and what you're measuring in your indicator. Explain how objectives are logically connected to reducing and eliminating the current community condition and completing your objectives or achieve your project goal. Pardon me. I need to erase that. To address the element of TTIP objective, you need to clearly define what change will take place within the timeframe. And so, a sample narrative to define your objective would be: objective one has a measurable achievement of reducing the costs on a selection of six vegetables and three fruits, indicator and target, by 40%. Current costs of these items have been obtained. That's your baseline. Once the objective has been achieved, 36 months to the end of the project, the cost of the same items will be presented to show the measurable reduction in cost. ANA also would like you to describe the relationship between the objective's achievement and the anticipated change. So anticipated change would be reducing, eliminating, improving, and what it will bring to the current community condition. So for the achievement side of it, achieving the objective of reducing the costs on a selection of fruits and vegetables by 40%, and then the anticipated change would to assist lower income families to purchase more fresh produce thereby preparing healthier meals for their households. And then tying it back to the current community condition, this will bring an improvement in the community condition two-fold by lowering costs and increasing the availability of fresh produce. You can see more on this discussion on page 46 of the manual. ANA would also like you to discuss the relationship between the objective's achievement and reaching your project goal. So a sample narrative would be: by assisting our farmers to use new technologies, it's anticipated that fresh produce will have lower production costs and an increased volume of harvested crops going to market. And this will allow our local farmers to pass the cost savings on to our tribal members. Go to manual pages 43 to 46, and I'd like you to begin writing your TTIP objectives. And remember, you can have up to three objectives for your project. Describe what the measurable achievement will be. And then how does your objective lead to the achievement of your project goal? And remember, timeline, population, indicator, target. Using that Mad Lib is really helpful to develop your objectives. The Alaska Region Training and Technical Assistance Center is here to answer your questions, and we offer 16 hours of free pre-application for you for any application that is at least 75% complete. We provide tips and resources to help you complete your application. If you would like to have technical assistance, go to our website at www.anaalaska.org, click on Technical Assistance, and then Request TA and someone will get back to you quickly. You can also call 800-948-3158.

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Video 2: How to Build your ANA Application

Video 3: Long-Term Community Goal

Video 4: Current Community Condition

Video 5: Project Goals

Video 6: TTIP Objectives

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Video 8: Outcome Tracker & Outcome Tracking Strategy

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Video 10: Budget

Video 11: Community-Based Strategy

Video 12: Readiness and Implementation Strategy

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Video 14: Sustainability Plans

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