Third East Asian Seas Youth Forum Toolkit - PEMSEA.org

Third East Asian Seas Youth ForumActivitiesPLANHaving big dreams, even specific objectives is great – but before you go rushinginto it, it’s always good to sit down and do a little planning and preparation.How can you make your objectives a reality? What will you actually do? Rather than figure it out entirely as you go, it’s good tobrainstorm it as much as possible upfront. Think about each objective and write down on your worksheet all the different things youwant to do to achieve it and group similar types of activities together.Objective 1Objective 2Objective 3Workplan and TimelineTo help develop a timeline you need to consider:• What needs to happen before I can do this?• What can be done once I’ve done this?• And, how long will it take to do? (What date will you start? What date will the activity be complete?)Often you’ll have a deadline for your project to be complete, so once you’ve finalized the order of the activities you might want to workbackwards from the deadline.Now – use your worksheet to write all of this down in one place – the overall categories, the specific activities, and the dates you’llcomplete them. This is called a workplan. If you already know who will be doing the tasks, you can even put names next to the tasks soeveryone knows who has agreed to do what - and by when they need to have them finished.Date Specific Task/Activity Person28