GOALS
The Designing Alternatives process builds and refines action alternatives that will help you achieve certain objectives in your objectives hierarchy. Once alternatives have been formulated, their effects will be evaluated in detail in III. Modeling Effects. For a preview of how these pieces will eventually all fit together, recall the figure shown below.
The Designing Alternatives stage of CRAFT has two main goals:
- To define feasible and coherent management activities that are consistent with relevant lower level objectives.
- To group management activities into formal action alternatives.
For an overview of Designing Alternatives, go to the Wizard Outline and Tables page.
STEPS
In CRAFT, as in DP 2.0, the analysis of action alternatives proceeds in two steps. In the first step, a set of alternatives actions (including a no-action alternative) are prepared for analysis in III. Modeling Effects. In the second step, you will have the opportunity to refine your alternatives if the effects analysis has shown that they are undesirable.
Based on where you are in this process, select one of the following:
II.A. Design Alternatives: (I have not yet designed or analyzed action alternatives).
II.B. Refine Alternatives: (I have already designed and analyzed action alternatives, but need to redesign them for subsequent analysis).
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Proceed to II.A. Design Alternatives 
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