ERIC: Name Your Strategies Clearly
Goal Choose strategies from a shared list and describe each one well enough for another team to copy it.
"Sensitisation" means different things to different people. The ERIC project agreed on 73 named implementation strategies, grouped into nine clusters. Using shared names lets teams compare and learn from each other.
The Nine ERIC Clusters
Use evaluative and iterative strategies
Audit and provide feedback on facility dropout at the monthly LGA review.
Provide interactive assistance
Supportive supervision with on-site problem solving.
Adapt and tailor to context
Tailor outreach dates to the seasonal movement of nomadic settlements.
Develop stakeholder interrelationships
Inform local opinion leaders through traditional leader committees and Ward Development Committees (WDCs).
Train and educate stakeholders
Cascade training before a new vaccine.
Support clinicians
A card-screening prompt at the triage desk.
Engage consumers
Radio, town announcers, a clear return date.
Use financial strategies
Use facility funds to cover outreach transport.
Change infrastructure
Replace a faulty fridge, change record systems, send mobile teams to nomadic settlements.
Describe Every Strategy on Seven Points
The sixth point names an implementation outcome, such as fidelity or cost. Lesson 6 explains all eight.
Try It: Specify a Strategy
Fill the boxes for a strategy from your own work. Copy the summary into your workplan.
Go deeper: ERIC clusters and strategies · specification template