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Exit Strategy & Creating Project Ownership
Sectors:
Social and Behavior Change
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This guide shares key steps and guidance for creating project ownership and planning an exit strategy to help ensure the long-term sustainability and effectiveness of an intervention. It provides how-to steps and a template to summarize community committee meeting results. An exit strategy is defined as a planned approach in which the implementing organization, responsible local government bodies, and the community or target group plan for the handing over of the project management after completion.