Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

Module 2 Community Mobilisation and Tools
Glossary
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Accountability Act of being responsible for your decisions and action and expected
to explain them when you are asked.
Advocate (Verb) To support something publicly. (Noun) – Person who supports
somebody or speaks in favour of somebody or of a public plan or
action.
Attribute Quality or feature of something or somebody.
Brainstorm Make a group of people all think about something at the same time,
often in order to solve a problem or to create good ideas.
Campaign A series of planned activities that are intended to achieve a particular
social, commercial, or political aim.
Communication The activity or process of expressing ideas and feelings or giving
people information.
Community All people who live in a particular area, country, continent, etc. It also
refers to people who share the same religion, job, race, etc.
Disease An illness affective humans, animals or plants, often caused by
infection.
Evaluation The act of forming an opinion of the amount, value or quality of
something after thinking about it carefully or thorough investigation.
Factors One of several things that cause or influence something.
Immunisation Protection against disease especially by giving an injection of a
vaccine.
Implementation The act of carrying out what has been officially decided on by a team
or group.
Infection Illness caused by bacteria or virus and affects one or several parts of
the body.
Innovative Introducing or using new ideas or ways of doing something.
Intervention Act of becoming involved in a situation in order to improve or help to
make it work.
Managing Controlling and being in charge of a business, team, organisation etc.
Mobilisation The process of organising a group of people in order to achieve a
particular aim.