Technical Program Design and Implementation

Futures Group understands that program design and implementation that seeks to strengthen health programs are best led by local technical experts.

Under the POLICY Project, we successfully put into practice an organizational model designed to build local capacity to guide and sustain policy change. Once a project office was established, POLICY began the process of devolving technical responsibilities for program design, implementation, and management to the local staff. Over time, POLICY devolved key project functions to the recipient countries and delegated authority for program design and implementation to local POLICY staff. Local country directors became the main project implementers in the field and were responsible for the majority of field support programs.

Supported by U.S.-based experts and managers, project operations shifted to the countries. Country management oversaw all aspects of local activities, including interactions with clients, program design, technical implementation, and local operations. We created a cadre of expert country directors and local staff to lead design, implementation and sustain policy change at the country level.

Today, we employ this model with all of our program design and implementation. The empowerment of local directors and their staff is essential to the success of our projects and the types, quality, and numbers of results achieved.