We suggest this format to help your community plan your NMHM activity. The new activity should:

1. Complement the Values of the organization
   
2. Allow for the sharing of Information, both ways
   
3. Be based on an understanding of Circumstances
   
4. Understand the Timing of the program
   
5. Receive formal or informal Obligations from identified stakeholders
   
6. Anticipate problems, Resistance from individuals or systems
   
7. Understand the Yield that should come of this venture and persistently concentrate on it.