The document defines key terms related to community mobilization. It explains that a community is a group of people with common interests, such as territory, resources, culture, or occupation. Community mobilization is the process of building social relationships to pursue common community goals. It involves raising awareness of shared concerns and organizing people to create shared benefits. The goals are to empower individuals and groups through skills development so they can effect change in their own communities. Transparency, accountability, stakeholders, and strategic approaches are also discussed.

1. Community Mobilisation
Khalid Saifullah

2. What is
Community?

3. What is Community?
• A Community is a set of people living together
with common interest”
Territory
Sharing resources
Administrative unit
Language
Religion
Culture
Occupation

4. Mobilization?
• act of assembling and putting into readiness
for war or other emergency
• To put into useful action.
• To get moving.
• To get ready.
• To get armed forces ready to fight

5. Community
Mobilization?

6. Community Mobilization
• Community Mobilization refers to the process of building
social relationships in pursuit of common community
interests.
• Community Mobilization is seen as being the foundation of
the community development process.
• Community development seeks to empower individuals
and groups of people by providing these groups with the
skills they need to affect change in their own communities.
• A process whereby a group of people become aware of a
shared concern or common need and decide to take
Mobilization in order to create shared benefits.
• A continual and cumulative process that involves
communication, education, and organization, which
together lead to community Mobilization and
development.

7. Transparency
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• Transparency means that the public/stake holders
can see what is happening within an organization.
• “What isn’t transparent is assumed to be biased,
corrupt, or incompetent until proved otherwise.”

8. Accountability
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Accountability means that organizations serving the public –
and the people working within these organizations – are
required to explain and justify their decisions and assume
responsibility for their actions. In addition, accountability
implies that people have some power to control the actions
of those who work in their name, be it through effective
complaints procedures, through the courts, or through
elections.

9. Stake Holder
• Stakeholders are individuals or organisations
who, directly or indirectly, stand to gain or
lose from a given development activity or
policy.
• Primary stakeholders who are directly affected and
would include the principal project beneficiaries.
• Secondary stakeholders who are indirectly affected.
• Key stakeholders who are the agents of change.

10. Strategic
• A programme might be "strategic" if it,
• - takes in to consideration the broader political, economic, social etc
context and charts a pathway of change through it
• - addresses the most important issues, factors and people
• - stops destructive dynamics
• - uses limited resources effectively
• - leverage a relatively small action to a larger effect
• - results in real, tangible changes that is appropriate for change
• - create momentum for more change
• - is based on an explicit theory of change that is appropriate for the
context
• - has effect on issues, dynamics, factors and people beyond the
immediate context of programme