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Topic 2 – How to Mobilize Community

Topic 2 – How to Mobilize Community. JICA LGREP. Topic Objective. For the participants to understand and learn how to conduct Community Mobilization in the context of BAWASA organizing. Question 1. What is mobilization and why is it important?. Point 1.1 – What is Community Mobilization?.

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Topic 2 – How to Mobilize Community

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  1. Topic 2 – How to Mobilize Community JICA LGREP Organization Developmen and Management

  2. Topic Objective For the participants to understand and learn how to conduct Community Mobilization in the context of BAWASA organizing. Organization Developmen and Management

  3. Question 1 What is mobilization and why is it important? Organization Developmen and Management

  4. Point 1.1 – What is Community Mobilization? • Community Mobilization • engages all sectors of the population in a community-wide effort to address a health, social, or environmental issue. Organization Developmen and Management

  5. Point 1.2 – Importance of Community Mobilization • Community mobilization empowers individuals and groups to take some kind of action to facilitate change. • In our case, we need to mobilize the community to undertake responsibilityin managing their own BAWASA. Organization Developmen and Management

  6. Process of Community Mobilization Organization Developmen and Management

  7. Step 1. People’s awareness raising • An affirmation to ACT takes place only after a member has understood the goals and needs of the organization. • How do we and the community know the needs and therefore the goals? • Through the conduct of PRA where needs will be identified and goals can be defined. Organization Developmen and Management

  8. Step 2. Surfacing of People’s goals and needs • Common goals and needs of community serve as the basis of unity that gives reason in forming people’s organization to effect CHANGE. • In the context of BAWASA organizing, the basic question to answer is: • Is it the community’s need and common goal to establish and manage a Water System? Organization Developmen and Management

  9. Step 3. Community decision to undertake appropriate actions • Motivating community members to proactively ACT on issues affecting themsuch as issues related to safe water supply or health issues in relation to water supply. • Community actions are administered legally through formation of Organization/Association. • Community had to understand that, in order to undertake legal actions, it has to be administered by a legal personality such as BAWASA that is duly registered. • Organization/Association working with private and government sectors towards CHANGE. • BAWASA had to work with other sectors such as LGUs, JICA, government agencies such as DepEd, DOH, etc. Organization Developmen and Management

  10. Question 2 How to prepare for Community Mobilization? Who are the stakeholders involve? Organization Developmen and Management

  11. Point 2.1 Preparation towards Community Mobilization Organization Developmen and Management

  12. Point 2.2 Stakeholders involve • Community advocates (team/group/ organization) • Initiator of community mobilization process (CO Team) • Policy and decision makers (municipal and barangay councils) • State, city elected officials • State, city influential staff • Government officials • Donors (ex. JICA) • Church, NGOs, Civic Organizations, etc. • Media • Others (DepEd, DOH, etc.) Organization Developmen and Management

  13. Question 3 • How do we analyze the current situation and identify needed CHANGES thru PRA? Organization Developmen and Management

  14. Point 3 A variety of formal and informal activities to understand and analyze the community situation and the issues that are important to community members can be employed: • Community walks • Informal discussions • Interviews • Role-plays, skits, puppet shows Organization Developmen and Management

  15. Conclusion • Important process in Community Mobilization in undertaking a Program or Project like BAWASA: • Learn from community members about their goals, needsand problems • Find and recruit the best people (potential leaders), and outside the community (ex. LGU, NGO, potentialdonorlike JICA, etc.) • Plan the program and take leadership in supporting and maintaining it. Organization Developmen and Management

  16. References • PRRM Archive, PRRM North Cotabato, 1998. • COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION GUIDE, "Division of STD Prevention, CDC", Department of Health and Human Services – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA, 2000. Organization Developmen and Management

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