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Community Mobilization

This document defines community participation and mobilization. It discusses how mobilization involves motivating community members to improve their socioeconomic status through participatory methods. The purposes of mobilization include increasing community capacity, improving programs, increasing ownership, and achieving sustainable results. A key role of community mobilizers is to bring people together, build trust, encourage participation, and facilitate discussion. The document outlines different levels of participation and techniques to promote mobilization such as developing dialogue, creating community organizations, and empowering communities.

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Community Mobilization

This document defines community participation and mobilization. It discusses how mobilization involves motivating community members to improve their socioeconomic status through participatory methods. The purposes of mobilization include increasing community capacity, improving programs, increasing ownership, and achieving sustainable results. A key role of community mobilizers is to bring people together, build trust, encourage participation, and facilitate discussion. The document outlines different levels of participation and techniques to promote mobilization such as developing dialogue, creating community organizations, and empowering communities.

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Community Mobilization

and Participation
Objectives

 Define community participation and mobilization


 Discuss purposes and benefits of community
mobilization
 Integrate process of community mobilization with
health project
 Discuss techniques of promoting community
mobilization and participation
 Identify the roles of community Mobilizers
What is community Participation

 Community Members, leaders, and or groups


involved take part in one or more phases of an
activity or project, participation may involve
contribution of ideas, priorities,resources,time or
decision making, implementation and evaluation.
What is community Mobilization

 Community mobilization refers to the process of


motivating/activating a group of people with
common culture and interest to improve their socio
economic status through participatory development
methods.
Cont…

 The goal of participation is to give communities


ownership the ability to express themselves, to learn
from them and to ultimately to empower them
through the transfer of skills, abilities and
knowledge.
Cont…

 Broadly: maximizing extent to which communities


become actively involved in their own development
and empowerment.
 Narrowly: it is involving communities in the whole
process of input, process and evaluation.
Purposes and benefits of community
Mobilization

 Increase community, individual and group


capacity to identify and satisfy their needs
 Improve program design
 Improve program quality
 Improve program results
 Improve program evaluation
 Cost effective way to achieve sustainable results
 Increase community ownership of the program
Cont…

 Developing an on going dialogue between


community members
 Creating or strengthen community organizations
(committees etc).
 Creating an environment in which individuals can
empower themselves to address their own and their
community health needs.
 Promoting community members participation
Role of Community Mobilizer

 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
 Helps things to run smoothly
 Facilitation in community Mobilization Process
Levels of community Participation

 Co-option
 Compliance
 Consultation
 Cooperation
 Collective action
 Co-learning
Co-option

 Involvement of local people


 Representatives are chosen but have no real input or
power
Compliance

 Tasks are assigned, with incentives


 Outsiders decide agenda and direct the process
Consultation

 Local opinions are asked


 Outsiders analyze and decide on a course at action
Co-operation

 Local People work together with outsiders to


determine priorities
 Responsibilities remains with outsiders for directing
the process
Co-learning

 Local People and outsiders share their knowledge to


create new understanding
 Local People and outsiders are work together to form
action plans with outsiders facilitation
Collective Action

 Local people set their own agenda & mobilize to


carry it out in the absence of outside initiation and
facilitation
Importance of Community Mobilization

 Identify needs and promote community interest


 Promote good leadership and democratic decision
making
 Identify specific groups for understanding specific
problems
 Provide ownership for initiatives
 Identify available resources
 Plan to utilize the resources
Cont…

 Enable the community to better govern itself


 Encourage interdependence within the communities
and between the coomunities and professionals
Key Tasks to promote community
Mobilization

 Developing an ongoing dialogue between community


members
 Creating community organization
 Create an environment for community
empowerment
 Working in partnership to promote participation
Cont…

 Support communities to develop a variety of


strategies and approaches
 Assisting in linking communities with external
resources
 Providing adequate time to communities
 Involving stakeholders
 Identifying deprived groups
References

 Textbook of Community Health Nursing for Post


Basic B.Sc Nursing Students (Ravi Prakash
Saxena,Dr.Hardeep Kaur Mal)

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