Implementation programs, partnerships, and monitoring

Learning objectives

• Build an implementation program that assigns each action a responsible party, timeframe, cost, and funding source.
• Explain how strategic partnerships extend what a public agency can accomplish.
• Describe redevelopment and reinvestment tools such as land banks, brownfield programs, and tax abatements.
• Identify common obstacles to implementation and ways to reduce them.
• Design plan monitoring with indicators tied to objectives and measured against a baseline, using a logic model.
• Explain how level-of-service standards and integrated project delivery connect plans to results.

Key concepts

Why implementation fails

Plenty of good plans sit on shelves. The usual reasons are predictable: nobody was assigned to do the work, there was no money, the actions were vague, political leadership changed, or no one checked progress. An implementation program is the plan's defense against all of these.

7 more sections follow in the full lesson.