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Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

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Exercise 2.3.4: Group Work<br />

Objective:<br />

To identify and explain the factors that<br />

promote community mobilisation.<br />

Time: 30 Minutes<br />

Question<br />

1. Identify and explain the factors that<br />

promote community mobilisation.<br />

<strong>Community</strong> Mobilisation and Participation<br />

Instruction to the Facilitator<br />

1. Put volunteers into groups of five.<br />

2. Ask each group to identify and<br />

explain some of the factors that<br />

promote community mobilisation.<br />

3. Let each group make a<br />

presentation at a plenary.<br />

Discuss group presentations.<br />

From the Exercise, what do factors affect community mobilisation? Compare with the<br />

factors below.<br />

Leadership<br />

Whenever community members come together to take action to improve their situation,<br />

leaders will emerge and the type of leadership determines the success or failure of a<br />

programme. A very important attribute that emerging leadership must have to move the<br />

people is one that inspires and provides guidance. This kind of leadership encourages<br />

and develops the people they work with. The leaders must also come up with innovative<br />

strategies for doing things.<br />

However, our focus should always be on accomplishing the project not on the leadership. As<br />

CHVs and VHCs you have to provide leadership, vision, strategies and commitment in all<br />

that you do. The people will follow a leader who knows where he is going.<br />

<strong>Community</strong> vision<br />

The community members need to have a shared idea or mental picture of what they want<br />

the community to be like or achieve. Your role is to guide them to be realistic about what can<br />

be achieved and how long it would take.<br />

An example of community vision is: Campaign for the use of bed nets by pregnant women and<br />

children under five years to reduce malaria related deaths by 10% by the end of two years.<br />

Specific goals and plans<br />

These are very necessary in order to avoid the risk of starting a project that never gets<br />

completed and members become frustrated. <strong>Community</strong> members must have a goal and a<br />

plan they can use to guide their activities. Your role here is to guide the community to set<br />

their goals and come up with a written plan that they can use to implement the projects.<br />

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