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Lori Michau, Co-Director, Raising Voices, Uganda

Mobilizing Communities to Prevent Domestic Violence: A Systematic Approach. Lori Michau, Co-Director, Raising Voices, Uganda lori.michau@raisingvoices.org www.raisingvoices.org. Began in 1999 Develop Program Tools Provide Technical Support Run Learning Centers

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Lori Michau, Co-Director, Raising Voices, Uganda

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  1. Mobilizing Communities to Prevent Domestic Violence: A Systematic Approach Lori Michau, Co-Director, Raising Voices, Uganda lori.michau@raisingvoices.org www.raisingvoices.org

  2. Began in 1999 Develop Program Tools Provide Technical Support Run Learning Centers Coordinate GBV Prevention Network (www.preventgbvafrica.org) Advocacy Raising Voices Preventing violence against women and children

  3. What is Community Mobilization? • Moving beyond service delivery • Awareness, Action, Accountability • Activism not ‘training’ • Individuals are change agents not program recipients • Horizontal emphasis • Organic and iterative • Builds social capital • Process is essential

  4. Conceptual Framework of Community Mobilization Sounds good, but how ?!

  5. Concepts into Action Facilitating Change: The Foundation of Community Mobilization • Stages of individual change scaled up to community level • Phased-in approach structures process of change • Helps organizations be systematic and focused

  6. Concepts into Action (cont.) Holistic: cross section of community; multi-faceted and interconnected relationships Repeated exposure to ideas: multiple strategies Community Ownership: NGO guided, community run

  7. M&E Challenges • Creates fear! • Dynamic, multiple influences • Longer-term process • Moving beyond tracking changes in individuals to community • Establishing meaningful quantifiable indicators • Skills and capacity of NGOs

  8. Program Tool Evaluation • Program tools can help structure and guide programs • Relevant in diverse contexts • Replicable • Can be scaled up

  9. Lessons Learned • Multi-faceted programming challenging but possible • Understanding how people change contributes to effective programming • Benefits-based • approach more • useful • Shifts • responsibility • from women to • community

  10. Doesn’t fit neatly into donor timeframes Reflects life – is messy! Prevention is ultimately more sustainable

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