What is community mobilization and participation?
Community mobilization is the process of bringing together as many stakeholders as possible to raise people’s awareness of and demand for a particular programme, to assist in the delivery of resources and services, and to strengthen community participation for sustainability and self-reliance.
What is the meaning of community mobilization?
Community mobilization is defined as “a capacity-building process through which community individuals, groups, or organizations plan, carry out, and evaluate activities on a participatory and sustained basis to. improve their health and other needs, either on their own initiative or stimulated by others.”
Why community mobilization is important for community participation?
Community mobilisation contributes to giving back the affected population a sense of control over their lives. As people become more involved they are likely to become more able to cope and more active in rebuilding their own community, and a sense of hope and possibility for the future is restored.
What is an example of community mobilization?
Community mobilization can include activities such as door-to-door outreach, public meetings, health fairs, participatory theatre and other activities.
What is the main purpose of 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, good governance, accountability, and peaceful change.
What is a community participation?
Community participation can be loosely defined as the involvement of people in a commu- nity in projects to solve their own problems. People cannot be forced to ‘participate’ in projects which affect their lives but should be given the opportunity where possible.
What are the benefits of community mobilization?
Community mobilisation is important when tackling health issues because it has advantages such as:
- local ownership and the sustainability of the programmes.
- motivating the people and encouraging participation.
- building community capacity to identify and address community needs, and empowering the community.
How do we mobilize?
12 ways to connect and mobilize:
- Highlight need – explain why things can’t go on as they are.
- Make them know they matter – show how they can help.
- Include everyone in crafting vision – engage people if you expect them to be engaged.
- Create channels for service – build organizational structure.
What are the skills of community mobilization?
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.
What is difference between community mobilization and social mobilization?
Hence, the key difference between social and community mobilization is that while social mobilization brings together people coming from various backgrounds in the society to achieve a single goal, in community mobilization, it is the members of the community that are brought together.