Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council
Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council
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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