What
is a Community?
is a Community?
A community is a social
group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share
government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share
government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
What
is Mobilization?
is Mobilization?
To
assemble, prepare, put into operation or co-ordinate a group of people for a
assemble, prepare, put into operation or co-ordinate a group of people for a
Community Mobilization?
Community mobilization is the process of engaging communities to
identify community priorities, resources, needs and solutions in such a way as
to promote representative participation in solving a problem in a community.
identify community priorities, resources, needs and solutions in such a way as
to promote representative participation in solving a problem in a community.
Steps in Community Mobilization
1. Establish
a Sense of Urgency:
Identify and discuss crises, potential crises or major opportunities.
a Sense of Urgency:
Identify and discuss crises, potential crises or major opportunities.
2. Form a
Powerful Guiding Team: Assemble
a group with enough power to lead the change effort and encourage the group to
work together as a team in achieving the set objectives
Powerful Guiding Team: Assemble
a group with enough power to lead the change effort and encourage the group to
work together as a team in achieving the set objectives
3. Create
a Vision: Creating a vision helps
direct the change effort and develop strategies to achieve the vision.
a Vision: Creating a vision helps
direct the change effort and develop strategies to achieve the vision.
4. Communicate
the Vision: Use every vehicle possible to communicate the
vision and strategies and teach new behaviours by the example of the guiding
coalition
the Vision: Use every vehicle possible to communicate the
vision and strategies and teach new behaviours by the example of the guiding
coalition
5. Empower
Others to Act on the Vision: Work
through any obstacles to change, address
systems/structures that seriously undermine the vision and encourage risk
taking and non-traditional ideas, activities and actions
Others to Act on the Vision: Work
through any obstacles to change, address
systems/structures that seriously undermine the vision and encourage risk
taking and non-traditional ideas, activities and actions
6. Plan
for and Create Short-Term Wins: Set
clear and measurable goals, Identify your celebrations and success markers and
recognize and reward those supporting/actualizing the guiding vision
for and Create Short-Term Wins: Set
clear and measurable goals, Identify your celebrations and success markers and
recognize and reward those supporting/actualizing the guiding vision
7. Consolidate
Improvements and Produce More Change: Using your increased credibility to promote your
guiding vision, support those who support the vision and reinvigorate the
process with new projects, themes and change agents
Improvements and Produce More Change: Using your increased credibility to promote your
guiding vision, support those who support the vision and reinvigorate the
process with new projects, themes and change agents
8. Introduce
New Approaches: Articulate the connections between new
behaviours and social change and develop the means to ensure leadership
development and sustainability
New Approaches: Articulate the connections between new
behaviours and social change and develop the means to ensure leadership
development and sustainability
Objectives
of Community Mobilization
of Community Mobilization
·
Build
capacity of participants in participant in achieve a set goal
Build
capacity of participants in participant in achieve a set goal
·
Upgrade
the level of awareness of the people on the need of the community and
developing a problem solving strategy.
Upgrade
the level of awareness of the people on the need of the community and
developing a problem solving strategy.
·
To
develop the intellectual capacity of the participants to and to promote inclusiveness
in the community,
To
develop the intellectual capacity of the participants to and to promote inclusiveness
in the community,
·
Develop
skills of the participants about using different tools in preferring needed
solutions.
Develop
skills of the participants about using different tools in preferring needed
solutions.
Importance
of Community Mobilization
of Community Mobilization
·
Expands
the base of community support for the set goals
Expands
the base of community support for the set goals
·
Brings
new volunteers who otherwise might not get involved in working toward the set
goals.
Brings
new volunteers who otherwise might not get involved in working toward the set
goals.
·
Creates
public awareness on the needs of the community and how to achieve them
Creates
public awareness on the needs of the community and how to achieve them
·
Promotes
community ownership for a problem and expands the base of support.
Promotes
community ownership for a problem and expands the base of support.
·
Creates
strategies that are effective in reaching every member of the community
Creates
strategies that are effective in reaching every member of the community
·
Helps everyone
to celebrate positive change in the community.
Helps everyone
to celebrate positive change in the community.
