Lesson 3

Question 1

This will serve as your guide to be able to let you identify community priorities, resources, needs, and solutions in such a way as to promote representative participation, good governance, accountability, and peaceful change.

Answer 1

COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION

Question 2

this is an important concept to analyze how communities perceive and comprehend a problem and is necessary for helping institutions to design adequate interventions with maximum community participation, and this is the essence of __.

Answer 2

Community Mobilization

Question 3

Engaging with __ is crucial to building trust and credibility.

Answer 3

community members

Question 4

Community mobilization is an attempt to bring both __ resources together to undertake developmental activities in order to achieve sustainable development.

Answer 4

human and non-human

Question 5

It is a process through which action is stimulated by a __ , or by others, that is planned, carried out, and evaluated by a community’s individuals, groups, and organizations on a participatory and sustained basis to improve the health, hygiene and education levels so as to enhance the overall standard of living in the community.

Answer 5

community itself

Question 6

__ increases the capacity of a community to identify and address its own needs while generating local solutions to problems.

Answer 6

Community mobilization

Question 7

Working with __, using existing structures, is highly recommended as the emergency efforts will build on an established network and trusted relationships and better ensures sustainability of emergency preparedness efforts.

Answer 7

localized community groups

Question 8

In __ , during the __ , emergency communication teams worked with the Village Development Committee, Family Member Committees and many youth groups.

Answer 8

Sierra Leone
Ebola response

Question 9

Community engagement is the one factor that underlies the success of all other control measures.” – __

Answer 9

Abramowitz et al, 2015

Question 10

•a capacity building process through which community members, groups or organizations plan.
•Refers to the process of building social relationships in pursuit of common community interests.
•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.
•Community mobilization is a process that aims to engage all sectors of the community to prompt individual, family and community action.

Answer 10

COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION DEFINED

Question 11

GOALS OF COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION

Answer 11

•Identify specific groups to undertake specific problems.
•Identify all the available resources in the community.
•Plan the best use of resources.
•Enable community to better govern themselves.
•Promote good leadership and democratic community level decision making

Question 12

Principles of Community Mobilization

Answer 12

COMMUNITY
Inclusiveness
Shared Humanity
Diversity
Responsiveness
Representation
Participation

Question 13

STEPS IN COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION

Answer 13

•Defining the problem
•Establishing a community mobilization group
•Designing strategies, setting objectives and selecting target groups
•Developing an action plan with community
•Community development planning
•Building capacity
•Identifying partners
•Implementing the plan of activities
•Monitoring and evaluation

Question 14

integrating community mobilization is a very vital process which begins a dialogue among members of the community to determine __ issues are decided, and also to provide an avenue for everyone to participate in decisions that affect their lives.

Answer 14

who, what, and how

Question 15

This will give you an idea of the extent of the problem and what the underlying causes are. In doing so, you will have a clear statement of the problem and identify the target population in the community affected by it.

Answer 15

Defining the problem

Question 16

The aim is to establish a group that can influence community mobilization activities. It usually consists of partners that have a stake in the issue (e.g. core group, barangay council, sectors in the community, as well as influential groups and members of the community such as formal and informal leaders and religious and traditional leaders.)

Answer 16

Establishing a community mobilization group

Question 17

After obtaining resources, the community mobilization group should design strategies to address the identified problem with objectives that are SMART, which means __.The objectives should be assessed for their impact on the targeted groups in the community.

Answer 17

Designing strategies, setting objectives and selecting target groups

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound

Question 18

Community mobilization needs many analytical and supportive resources which are internal (inside the community) and external (outside the community) as well. Resources include:

Answer 18

o Leadership
o Manpower
o Organizational capacity
o Communications channels
o Assessments
o Problem solving
o Resource mobilization
o Administrative and operational management

Question 19

An action plan links the general community mobilization plan with time lines for the actual implementation of the planned activities, and the deadlines set for goals to be achieved.

Answer 19

Developing an action plan with community

Question 20

consists of a public participatory and usually interactive form of bottom-up planning and design in which diverse community members (often termed “stakeholders”) contribute toward formulation of the goals, objectives, planning, fund/resource identification and direction, planned project implementations and reevaluation of documented local planning policy.

Answer 20

Community development planning

Question 21

Involves identifying existing _ resources and assessing the gaps that exist to implement the community mobilization. The gaps identified should be supplemented by capacity building of the community groups and other relevant stakeholders in the community involved in community mobilization.

Answer 21

Building capacity

Question 22

In the community there are various partners that work independently to achieve similar goals. Therefore, it is important to __ through a simple mapping exercise. With respect to prevention and control of COVID19, for instance, the following partners may be relevant: local non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Answer 22

Identifying partners

Question 23

Based on the action plans developed with all of the relevant community level partners, _ of the community mobilization activities is the main task. In the _ process, a clear role for any partners that are involved should be put in place and communicated with all of them.

Answer 23

Implementing the plan of activities

Question 24

is the last, but essential, element of community mobilization. It enables you to check whether the action plan has been implemented effectively and the specific objectives are met with respect to the issue the community is mobilized to achieve.

Answer 24

Monitoring and evaluation

Question 25

In mobilization, __ matters because residents can best identify solutions for their respective communities: they know what knowledge and rumors are circulating; they can provide insight into stigma and structural barriers; and they are well placed to work with others from their communities to devise collective responses. It is a very important component of community mobilization.

Answer 25

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

Question 26

A process by which a community mobilizes its resources, initiates and takes responsibility for its own development activities and share in decision making for and implementation of all other development programs for the overall improvement of its holistic community aspects.

Answer 26

Community Participation

Question 27

Benefits of Community Participation

Answer 27

oIncreased ownership, support and responsibility;

o More likelihood of, and sustainability for, behavior change;

o Better response to community needs and concerns;

o It also instills a sense of greater responsibility and sustainability;

o Programming is more cost-effective because project resources are often supplemented by community resources (such as labor or in-kind resources); and

o Community members participate in problem identification, prioritization & decision-making, the program can respond better to their needs & concerns.