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SWOT Analysis

Global Disease Epidemiology Policies and Programs

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- Emailing the SWOTs

- An approach may also be analyzed using a SWOT

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Objectives

Qualitatively evaluate a program

Inform strategy

Determine the most important opportunities and threats

SWOT

Move to actual SWOT document after we talk through these.

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Consider…

Start with exploring the environment

Categorizing Key Factors

Resources, Deficiencies, Competencies

Relationships

Internal Weaknesses <-> Internal Strengths

External Threats <-> External Opportunities

Overlap

Some factors may appear in multiple sections

Strategic Recommendations

Opportunities worth pursuing?

Most important threats?

Partnerships?

Reallocation of resources?

Restructuring?

Mention that SWOTs have been around since the 1970s and are used as a tool in public health decision-making, including the IH department as we speak.

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Example: Public Health Program in Liberia

Following the cessation of hostilities between the former Gov’t of Liberia Armed Forces and the various warring factions in Liberia in August 2003, the country was left with a large number of internally displaced people (IDPs), most living in and around Monrovia.

To address the serious humanitarian conditions the IDPs were living in, Oxfam GB (UK development charity) has been implementing a multi-donor funded public health programme in four main IDP camps and one peri-urban community environment, in and around Monrovia, since August 2011.

The donors contributing to the programme include OFDA; UNICEF; DCI and Oxfam Ireland; ECHO; and Oxfam GB.

The programme focuses on water and sanitation provision; hygiene education, malaria control and prevention. The programme integrates humanitarian protection and gender mainstreaming as key elements in design, planning and implementation. The programme ends by end of April 2012.

Strengths

Competent staff who were experienced in Oxfam’s ways of working.

Resources available: funds, materials, logistics

Committed staff

Beneficiaries familiar with Oxfam work; acceptance

Appropriate management: supply chain flow, payment of staff, information flow through meetings

Program M&E were established from beginning.

Gender-balanced staff

Weaknesses

Poor feedback from managers to field staff on decisions made by senior management

Weak information sharing within different teams

Uncoordinated planning and involvement of different teams (i.e. operations/logistics, finance, etc)

Staff commuting long distances

Budget monitoring

Difficulty in controlling quality of materials with specifications for various projects

Untimely delivery of program materials

Wrapping up

Looking at the Liberia example, what are the most important strengths and weaknesses?

Based on this information, how would you move forward?

Just to recap – the SWOT is a framework to systematically lay out the various qualitative factors that might have an impact on your program. After you’ve done this with your team, you can collectively ascertain which strengths and weaknesses are the most important, and from there, you can determine your next steps. This is a widely-used framework in many different settings. There are many examples of public health SWOTs that we would be happy to share if you’re interested in looking at more of these.

Now that you know what a SWOT is, know that you might be randomly called upon to present yours after the lecture at any point during this course! We’ll project a randomly-selected SWOT and begin our discussion from there.

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STRENGTHS

WEAKNESSES

OPPORTUNITIES

THREATS

INTERNAL FACTORS

EXTERNAL FACTORS