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    Social mobilization is defined as bringing together societal and personal influences to raise awareness of and demand for healthcare, assist in delivering resources and services, and cultivate sustainable community involvement. It involves assessing community needs, designing a strategy, identifying partners, developing materials, training mobilizers, and implementing and monitoring activities. The benefits of social mobilization include empowering communities, reducing conflict, giving a sense of ownership, and allowing communities to organize and take initiative for recovery from disasters. The key elements are partnership building, community participation, raising awareness through media and events, and advocacy.

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    Social Mobilization

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    Social mobilization is defined as bringing together societal and personal influences to raise awareness of and demand for healthcare, assist in delivering resources and services, and cultivate sustainable community involvement. It involves assessing community needs, designing a strategy, identifying partners, developing materials, training mobilizers, and implementing and monitoring activities. The benefits of social mobilization include empowering communities, reducing conflict, giving a sense of ownership, and allowing communities to organize and take initiative for recovery from disasters. The key elements are partnership building, community participation, raising awareness through media and events, and advocacy.

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    Social mobilization is defined as bringing together societal and personal influences to raise awareness of and demand for healthcare, assist in delivering resources and services, and cultivate sustainable community involvement. It involves assessing community needs, designing a strategy, identifying partners, developing materials, training mobilizers, and implementing and monitoring activities. The benefits of social mobilization include empowering communities, reducing conflict, giving a sense of ownership, and allowing communities to organize and take initiative for recovery from disasters. The key elements are partnership building, community participation, raising awareness through media and events, and advocacy.

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    Social Mobilization

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    Philip Mutua
    Social mobilization is defined as bringing together societal and personal influences to raise awareness of and demand for healthcare, assist in delivering resources and services, and cultivate sustainable community involvement. It involves assessing community needs, designing a strategy, identifying partners, developing materials, training mobilizers, and implementing and monitoring activities. The benefits of social mobilization include empowering communities, reducing conflict, giving a sense of ownership, and allowing communities to organize and take initiative for recovery from disasters. The key elements are partnership building, community participation, raising awareness through media and events, and advocacy.

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    SOCIAL MOBILIZATION

     Def1: Is the process of bringing together all societal and personal


    influences to raise awareness of and demand for health care,
    assist in the delivery of resources and services, and cultivate
    sustainable individual and community involvement.
    Def2: Social mobilization is the
    process of bringing together all
    societal and personal influences to
    raise awareness of and demand for
    health care, assist in the delivery of
    resources and services, and cultivate
    sustainable individual and community
    involvement.
     STEPS IN SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
    Step 1: Assessommunity needs,
    issues and resources.
    Step 2: Design a social
    mobilization strategy. ...
    •Step 3: Identify and partner with local
    organizations. ...
    •Step 4: Design, test and
    produce social
    mobilization materials. ...
    •Step 5: Choose and
    train social mobilizers. ...
    •Step 6: Implement and
    monitor social mobilization activities .
    BENEFITS OF SOCIAL MOBILIZATION.
    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.

    • Poverty alleviation -Social mobilization is an approach that


    empowers people to participate actively in development
    processes – through their own local initiatives and through
    well informed and constructive dialogue at the policy level.

    • Conflict prevention- As people prepare to address common


    problems, and to collectively improve their socio-economic
    conditions in an equitable, democratic and transparent
    manner, possibility of conflict can be significantly reduced.

    • Brings a sense of ownership - since every member in the


    community is getting involved in issues pertaining the
    community they develop a sense of belonging.to the
    community and the resources in it.
    Environment – By organizing people to better manage their
    natural resources and fight against practices and organizations
    that degrade the environment through promoting appropriate
    legal, regulatory and institutional frameworks and policy
    dialogue.

    Social mobilization is the primary step


    of community development for recovery from conflicts
    and disasters. It allows people to think and understand
    their situation and to organize and initiate action for their
    recovery with their own initiative and creativity.
    KEY ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL MOBILIZATION

    Key Elements of Social


    Mobilization include ;
    1.Partnership building and
    networking
    2.Community participation
    3.Media and special events to raise
    public awareness
    4.Advocacy to mobilize resources
    and effect policy change

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