Part B: What You Need to do to Mobilise a Community

Course Navigation: Introduction to Community Empowerment Mobilizing community To Be a Mobiliser  |  Getting Prepared  |  Getting Started  |  Organizing the Community  |  Implementing the Community's Chosen Action  |  Sustaining the Process  |  Community Empowerment and National Development WikiEducator Community Empowerment Node Work in progress, expect frequent changes. Help and feedback is welcome. See discussion page. This second half of the course describes what the the individual, the mobilizer, needs to do in order to achieve the social process described in Part A. This is a complement to Part A which describes the process from the point of view of the community Key points The mobilizer must have some required characteristics and skills, some intrinsic and some trainable. To become a mobilizer, the individual should be involved in self assessment and self selection or deselection. Then the mobiizer needs to know what to do to mobilize a community for empowerment. Outcomes The student will Be able to work as a mobilizer in the field to empower a community The student will be able to coordinate or manage a team of mobilizers The student will be able to train new mobilizers Move this: Overview of Part B: What You Need to do to Mobilise a Community This second half of the course describes what the the individual, the mobilizer, needs to do in order to achieve the social process described in Part A. This is a complement to Part A which describes the process from the point of view of the community. Outcomes The student will Be able to work as a mobilizer in the field to empower a community The student will be able to coordinate or manage a team of mobilizers The student will be able to train new mobilizers To Be a Mobiliser Outcomes The student will be able to self assess to see if she or he can become a mobilizer The student will be able to distinguish between intrinsic and learnable characteristics of a mobilizer The student will recognize that reputation is the most important asset of the mobilizer The student will recognize that integrity is not only important in itself, but that the community members must see it in their mobilizer and in their leaders The student will be able to recognize communities that are not ready to be mobilized The student will recognize that the mobilizer must be able to walk away from communities that are not ready to be mobilized. Getting Prepared Outcomes The student will be able to cite the goals of mobilization for empowerment The student will be able to assess the nature and organization of the target communities The student will be able to list the skills needed to mobilize The student will be able to list and define the basic empowerment concepts Getting Started (Preparing the Community) Outcomes The student will know how to get necessary permissions to being a mobilizer in the area The student will know how to raise awareness, especially among officials and leaders, without raising expectations that gifts are forthcoming The student will know the importance of challenging the community's first wishes, and how to convert them into do-able actions by the community The student will be able to guide a community in making decisions about what action it should take Organizing the Community Outcomes The student will know how to organize for decision making and organize for action, and be able to distinguish between them The student will recognize the origin and parallels or community organizing with both management training and union organizing The student will be able to guide the community in making a plan of action The student will be able to guide the community to design a community project Implementing the Community Action Outcomes The student will recognize that community action is vital for community empowerment The student will know how to stimulate the community to take action by implementing its plan The student will recognize that after the action starts the community members become more aware of the skills they need The student will be prepared to provide needed skills when the community recognizes their need The student will recognize the need for the community to monitor its own action, and will be able to encourage and guide the community to do so The student will recognize the need for public celebration, that it is part of the necessary work of the mobilizer. The student will learn to look up words like veisalgia Sustaining the Process Outcomes The student will understand the importance of sustaining the intervention beyond a single community project The student will see that if a community cannot maintain its facility, it might as well have not been installed The student will understand the need for finding community leaders to carry on, and how to identify and prepare them to do so The student will know how to take notes from her or his journals and prepare a handover report for the new incoming mobilizer Community Empowerment and National Development (Conclusion) Outcomes The student will understand the role of community empowerment in national development The student will understand an important factor (among several) in the failure of newly independent countries to become self reliant The student will understand that new rules or laws allowing community participation do not guarantee that there will be community participation (the government or alternatives must take a proactive role in stimulating and encouraging community empowerment interventions) The student will understand the necessity of obtaining needed resources from the right sources. (Cows do not provide eggs) Intro para for Part B goes here .... Outcomes List the outcomes for Part B here: One two etc.