WHAT IS COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION

Community mobilization is a process that is aimed at engaging all sectors of the community such as individual, family and community to prompt to action. It also involves building trust in individuals, raising awareness, and fostering collective ownership among community members to address specific issues or challenges.

It uses a variety of community engagement approaches to raise awareness and empower individuals and groups toward those actions, creating an enabling environment and effecting positive change.

Community mobilization can include activities such as door-to-door outreach, public meetings, health fairs, participatory theatre and other activities. Importantly, mobilization efforts are community driven, and community members are active participants in defining the problem, generating solutions and evaluating the outcomes of those solutions.

STEPS INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY MOBILISATION

• Identify and Access Communities
• Select and Train Community Spokespeople and Mobilizers
• Establish a Formal Structure for Effective Information Flow
• Identify and Implement Community Mobilization Activities

Community mobilization can be applied to various areas, such as:

1. Health: Promoting disease prevention, vaccination, and health education.
2. Education: Encouraging enrollment, retention, and community support for schools.
3. Environmental conservation: Encouraging sustainable practices and natural resource management.
4. Social justice: Advocating for human rights, gender equality, and social change.
5. Economic development: Supporting local economic initiatives and entrepreneurship.

SITUATION ANALYSIS

A situation analysis is the systematic collection and study of information to identify trends, forces, and conditions related to the problem you are trying to solve.

This analysis is also aimed at providing a thorough understanding of the situation, promoting informed decision-making, strategic planning, and effective problem-solving.

A situation analysis includes:

1. Contextual analysis: Understanding the broader environment, including political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors.
2. Stakeholder analysis: Identifying and analyzing the interests, needs, and influence of individuals or groups affected by the situation.
3. SWOT analysis: Examining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to the situation.
4. Root cause analysis: Identifying the underlying causes of problems or issues.
5. Trend analysis: Examining patterns and trends to anticipate future developments.
6. Impact analysis: Assessing the potential consequences of different actions or decisions.
7. Gap analysis: Identifying the differences between current and desired situations.

• A situation analysis examines the people affected and their needs; social and cultural norms; potential constraints on individual and collective change; potential facilitators of individual and collective change; and the audiences’ access to and use of communication channels (such as brochures, television, and SMS).

STEPS INVOLVED IN SITUATION ANALYSIS

• Identify the Health Issue.
• Develop a Problem Statement.
• Draft a Shared Vision.
• Conduct a Desk Review.
• Decide the Scope of the Review.
• Identify the Relevant Information.
• Review and Organize the Data.
• Analyze the Data and Summarize the Findings.

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

• Community participation is one of the principles of primary health care
• therefore this is a way in which members of a community are organized, sensitized and mobilized towards. participating in health programs affecting their health and existence.

STEPS INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

1. preference revelation
2. policy choice.
3. implementation
4. monitoring, assessment and accountability.

COMMUNITY DIAGNOSIS

Community diagnosis is the identification and quantification of health problems in a given population using health indicators to define those at risk or those in need of care and the opportunities and resources available to address these factors.

STAGES INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY DIAGNOSIS

1. Data collection.
2. Data analysis.
3. Prioritising problems.
4. Developing an action plan.

For clarity:

SITUATION ANALYSIS focuses on community needs which might not necessarily ly associated with health-related issues.

While the COMMUNITY DIAGNOSIS Focuses on Identifying health problems.