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Community Mobilization

Community Mobilization. What is a Community?. A community is typically characterized by: A sense of belonging A sense of purpose and common goals A high degree of cooperation and participation in pursuing common goals

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Community Mobilization

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  1. Community Mobilization

  2. What is a Community? • A community is typically characterized by: • A sense of belonging • A sense of purpose and common goals • A high degree of cooperation and participation in pursuing common goals • An inter-personal climate characterized by mutual respect, sense of fraternity and/or fellowship, etc. • “Community” refers here to High Risk Groups (HRGs): • Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) • Female Sex Workers (FSWs) • Men having Sex with Men (MSM)

  3. What is Community Mobilization? Community Mobilization is: • A process of consulting with community • Creating space for community • Giving community a role in the decision making and management of programs • Building capacity of community to assume ownership of programs Contd…

  4. Why Community Mobilization? 1. Achieving Scale and Coverage • Makes HIV prevention a community priority • Uses organic bonding, through which individuals share emotions and understand/share responsibility so that their peers utilize services, etc. 2. Improving Quality • Strengthens collective bargaining power, ensuring safe practices between people with unequal power relations • Maintains and reinforces quality of services and not just as beneficiaries Contd…

  5. Why Community Mobilization? 3. Sustainability • Ensures sharing of responsibility by each member for consolidation and continuation of intervention • Actively initiates mobilization of resources and evolves innovative mechanisms

  6. Level of Participation • Participation for material incentives - Affected community participates in activity only because they need the material benefits of doing so, e.g. money • Consultation - Affected community is asked about an activity by externals but their views may or may not influence it • Information Giving - People are simply informed that an activity has been designed

  7. Self-mobilization Joint Decision- Making -

  8. Challenges • Keeping ownership alive at community level • Achieving long-term sustainability • Systematically mobilizing communities throughout a large area • Responding to peer-driven needs (monetary and food support, etc.) • Monitoring and evaluation that is sensitive to community ownership and need for information for donor support

  9. Barriers • Judgmental attitude of service providers • Bringing all the community members together on one platform • Unpredictable behaviours of IDUs due to overwhelming need to do drugs • Low self-esteem of IDUs • Social and legal status of IDUs results in denial of their rights and entitlements • Lack of capacity of the community members and awareness of rights

  10. THANK YOU

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