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Community Mobilization

The document discusses community mobilization and the role of a community mobilizer. It defines community mobilization as a process where community members plan, carry out, and evaluate activities to improve health and other needs. The benefits of mobilization include sustainability, increased community capacity, improved programs, and cost effectiveness. A mobilizer's role is to bring people together, build trust, encourage participation, and facilitate discussions. Key skills for a mobilizer include strong communication, facilitation, and awareness of political and cultural issues in the community. Getting prepared involves knowing goals, the target community, required skills, and basic concepts in community development.

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Community Mobilization

The document discusses community mobilization and the role of a community mobilizer. It defines community mobilization as a process where community members plan, carry out, and evaluate activities to improve health and other needs. The benefits of mobilization include sustainability, increased community capacity, improved programs, and cost effectiveness. A mobilizer's role is to bring people together, build trust, encourage participation, and facilitate discussions. Key skills for a mobilizer include strong communication, facilitation, and awareness of political and cultural issues in the community. Getting prepared involves knowing goals, the target community, required skills, and basic concepts in community development.

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Community Mobilization

What is community?
 A Community is a set of people living together with common interest”

Community mobilization is a capacity-building process through which community


individuals, groups, or organizations PLAN, CARRY OUT, and EVALUATES activities
on a participatory and sustained basis to improve their health and other needs,
either on their own initiative or stimulated by others

We all live in a community. There are different things that bind us together.
Let us try to identify them.

 Beliefs

 Values

 Language

 Territory

 Religion

 Culture

 Occupation
Community mobilization:
Why community mobilization?

As a Mean or Strategy:

 Creating demand for interventions

 Increasing access to services

 Scaling up interventions

 Increasing effectiveness and efficiency of interventions

 Contributing additional resources to the response

 Reaching the most vulnerable

 Addressing the underlying causes of Education: gender disparities, lack of


awareness etc.

 Increasing community ownership and

Benefits of Mobilization

 Sustainability.

 Increase community, individual, and group capacity to identify and satisfy


their needs

 Improve program design

 Improve program results

 Improve program evaluation

 Cost effective way to achieve sustainable results


 Increase community ownership of the program

 Key task in mobilization


 Developing an on-going dialogue between community members

 Creating or strengthening community organizations (Committees etc.)

 Creating an environment in which individuals can empower themselves to


address their own and their community’s health needs

 Promoting community members’ participation

 Working in partnership with community members

 Identifying and supporting the creative potential of communities to develop


a variety of strategies and approaches

 Assisting in linking communities with external resources

 Committing enough time to work with communities, or with a partner who


works with them
Role of mobilizer in community

A mobilizer is a person who mobilizes, i.e. gets things moving. Social animator. A
Catalyst

 Bringing People Together

 Building Trust

 Encouraging Participation

 Facilitating Discussion and Decision-making

 Helping Things to Run Smoothly .

 Facilitation in community mobilizationWrite one mean to enhance


participation?

State one example you have done so far

Skill for community mobilizer


Attitudes include:
 a willingness to examine and challenge their own assumptions, opinions
and beliefs

 a genuine respect for all community members

 a non- judgmental and accepting approach

 an understanding that different people have different views and


perspectives

 a belief in community capacity to take effective action.


Skills include:
 good communication skills, especially listening

 good facilitation skills to enable communities to conduct their own analysis


of their lives and situations

 PLA and other techniques to help facilitation awareness of political, gender


and cultural issues and relationships

 an ability to challenge assumptions sensitively (e.g. about the role of


women).

Knowledge includes:
 the community mobilization process

 the principles of community mobilization

 knowledge of Education related Issues and problems, causes and effects

 understanding of the ethical issues related to community mobilization . .

Other skills and knowledge that may be needed at different stages in


the community mobilization process include:
 an ability to help communities form organizations

 an ability to identify capacity-building needs among communities (e.g.


leadership skills, networking and partnership-building skills)

 an ability to help communities mobilize resources

 advocacy skills

 project planning and management skills.



Some qualities Mobilizer


 Good communication skills

 Good facilitation skills

 Good listener

 Committed

 Decision maker

 Active

 Negotiation skills

 Honest

 Known to culture and values of society

 Well dress

 Catalyst

 Management skills

Getting Prepared Mobilizer


 Know Your Goals "If you do not know where you are going, then any road
will do."

 Know Your Target Community You must know as much as possible about
its social organization, economy, languages, layout (map), problems,
politics, and ecosystem

 Know The Skills You Need


 Know The Basic Concepts What is development? Community
development? Community participation? Poverty? Community?
Empowerment?

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