This document discusses social mobilization and community participation in forest management. It defines social mobilization as a process that enables communities to discuss, analyze, and solve their problems by utilizing existing resources. The key steps in the social mobilization cycle include sensitization, awareness raising, participatory assessment, developing a community action plan, monitoring, and evaluation. Effective forest extension requires mobilizing local support through religious leaders and community leaders, as well as external support from technical experts. Factors like community awareness, interests, and incentives can affect participation, while conservation, empowerment, and capacity building can drive participation. Participation can be measured by involvement in planning, implementation, and monitoring of forest management plans.

1. SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
 Definition:
 Social Mobilization is a process in which people are made
enable to Discuss their problems, Analyze their problems,
make Plans to solve them, Utilize their existing resources,
solve them and Sustain it
 Tools for mobilization
 Questions
 Dialogue
 Trust
 Firm believe on Human development
 Humbleness
 Love

2. SOCIAL MOBILIZATION CYCLE
 Sensitization and Clearance
 Meetings and obtain permission from authority
 Meetings with stockholders and contact person
 Sensitization is not just a formality, must be well planned
 Counteracting of rumors and false assumptions
 Awareness Raising
 Unity Organizing-Puling together different community factions
 Organizing the community workers
 Participatory Assessment-Resources, potentials, hindrances and needs
 Community Action Plan
 Consistent with community action plan
 What do we want?
 What do we have?
 How do we use what we have?
 What will happen when we do?
 Monitoring
 Evaluation

3. ESSENTIALS FOR EFFECTIVE FOREST EXTENSION
 Mobilization
 Local support which is achived through
 Involving religious leaders in communication of
messages
 Involving local leaders of the community
 Promoting confidence building measures
 Encouraging indigenous knowledge
 External support which is achieved by involving
technical expert from concerned agencies
 Training of local caders
 System management i.e management of all
matters

4. FACTORS AFFECTING PARTICIPATION
 Behavior and acceptance of the concerned
Deptt
 Interest of stakeholders
 Policy of the country
 Motivation and mobilization of the community
 Priorities of the community
 Funds/incentives for participation
 Law of the country
 Sufficiency of the forest resources
 Awareness of the community

5. DRIVERS FOR PARTICIPATION
 Conservation of forest resource for future
 Involving in the decision making process of their own
resources
 Creation of sense of ownership of the resources
 Sense of empowerment
 Expectation of better return from resources in case of
best management i.e timber, tourism
 Improvement in environment
 Gaining knowledge
 Capacity building in leadership
 To prevent corruption by the concerned agencies

6. MEASURING PARTICIPATION
 Participation in plaining i.e preparation of
management plans
 Participation in implementaiton of
management plans
 Participation in monitoring of plans

7. FORMS OF PARTICIPATION
 Physical participation
 Participation through representatives
 Through opinion/vote
Levels of participation
Planning
Implementation
Monitoring

8. INDICATORS FOR PARTICIPATION
 Stakeholders involvement in planning, implementation and
monitoring
 Participation of stakeholders in protection and conservation of
forest resources
 Awareness of the stakeholders on the current status of the
resources
 Motivation of the stakeholders
 Level of interest of the stakeholders
 Participation in afforestation in reforestation
 Extension of support to the concerned authorities for protection
 Local measures for protection by stakeholders for protection i.e
Awami check post
 Level of ownership