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Community Mobilisation and Participation it successful. We can therefore define community mobilisation as ‘the joining together of strengths of community members and other people into an action plan which is implemented to address and solve community problems’. Box 2.3.1: Other definitions of community mobilisation 1. 2. Community mobilisation is the process of preparing and organising to take action towards the community’s development. Community participation is a process whereby individuals, groups as well as the entire community take responsibility for their health and well being. They then decide to be involved and contribute to finding solutions to their own community problems. If we believe in the saying that “Community is strength”, then it is important that communities participate fully in managing their health problems. This is called community participation. As a volunteer, your understanding of community mobilisation and participation empowers you to effectively mobilise the people in your community for health and development issues. Exercise 2.3.1 will help you understand the process involved in community mobilisation. Exercise 2.3.1 Objective 1. To understand the process of community mobilisation and participation 2. To learn about how it is done Time: 30 Minutes Questions 1. Who did you mobilise? 2. Why did you mobilise the entire community? 3. How did you get all the people to participate 4. What resources did you use? 5. What lessons did you learn from the experience? Purpose of Community Mobilisation Instruction to the Facilitator 1. Put participants in three groups. Let each group write an outline of how to mobilise their community for different projects and get people to participate. The project can be – Community toilet, Borehole, CHC or Road works. 2. In plenary presentations, ask participants to share their experiences on how the communities were mobilised for specific projects. Use the questions in Exercise 2.3.1 as a guide. On what occasions do you mobilise your communities? Funerals, out-doorings, marriages, confirmations, or engagements? We mobilise communities for both happy and sad occasions. You as VHCs and CHVs mobilise communities for various activities especially in health development. Therefore, you need to be familiar with the purpose, benefits and the challenges of community mobilisation to help you mobilise your people to work with you. Why did you become a village health volunteer? For recognition? To learn about diseases? For everything we do, there is a reason or a purpose that guides why we do it. It is the same 115
Module 2 Community Mobilisation and Tools 116 for community mobilisation. So we mobilise for different reasons. We mobilise communities to achieve a goal such as preventing pregnant women from dying during child birth or the spread of malaria in our community. Do you have a clinic or CHPS Compound in your community? How did you get it? Let us use your experience to explain community mobilisation and participation. Probably it took the efforts of many individuals and organisations to get the CHPS compound going. Perhaps, the District Assembly and the Ghana government provided the money, the community provided labour, the contractor built the physical structures, and the health staff agreed to work there. Together, all these processes bring the community together to achieve a common purpose. This is called “mobilising the community”. Topic 2 Stages of community mobilisation Let us describe the stages of planting in our villages. What do you do first, second, etc. until the planting season is over? Just as we have stages in planting so do we have stages in mobilising a community for health action. Figure 2.3.1 and Box 2.3.2 illustrate the stages in mobilising a community. Exercise 2.3.2 Objective 1. To identify various stages of community mobilisation. Time: 30 Minutes Questions 1. Discuss the stages of community mobilisation 2. How will you this knowledge in your volunteer work. Evaluation Implementation Planning Community mobilization cycle Assessment Figure 2.3.1: The Community Mobilisation Cycle Fig 2.3.1: The Community Mobilization Cycle Instruction to the Facilitator 1. Guide participants through a discussion to understand the various stages of community mobilisation. 2. Ask them to recap the process followed till the CHC was built and used. Help them see what each stage involves. Community entry Readiness
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